Near the end of the Hippodrome I came upon the Built Column, a truncated obelisk of blocks, all that remains of a monument that once rivalled the Colossus of Rhodes.

Near the end of his service he wrote that when the war was over he was going to buy two pups, name one of them `` Fall-in '' and the other `` Close-up '', and then shoot them both, `` and that will be the end of Fall-in and Close-up ''.

Near the end of Alexander's life, Alexander began to suspect plots against himself, and threatened Aristotle in letters.

" Near the end of his life, he fictionalized this experience in his book New Connecticut, originally circulated only among friends before its publication in 1881.

Near the west end of the lake it receives its first important tributary, the Lütschine.

Near the west end of Lake Thun, the river receives the waters of the Kander, which has just been joined by the Simme.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

Near the end of the days of the vow, Paul was recognized outside Herod's Temple and was nearly beaten to death by a mob, " shouting, ' Men of Israel, help us!

Near the end, I could hardly breathe.

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

Near the end of the first decade of the double-Bills ' guidance, the Cubs won the NL pennant in 1929 and then achieved the unusual feat of winning a pennant every three years, following up the 1929 flag with league titles in 1932, 1935, and 1938.

Near the end of the Daytona 500, he had a four-second lead when the final caution flag came out with a handful of laps to go.

Near the end of his term, his efforts to set up a summit meeting with the Soviets collapsed because of the U-2 incident when an American spy plane was shot down over Russia and its pilot captured.

Near the end, Don Quixote reluctantly sways towards sanity: an inn is just an inn, not a castle.

Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.

Near the end of his life, he became reclusive and produced frightening and obscure paintings of insanity, madness, and fantasy, while the style of the Black Paintings prefigures the expressionist movement.

Near the end of his 1796 paper on living and fossil elephants he said:

Near the end of this period his friend Basil died.

Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.

Near the end of 1840 he once again decided to sign ship's articles.

Near the end of his apprenticeship, Grien oversaw the production of stained glass, woodcuts and engravings, and therefore developed an affinity for them.

Near the end of his life, Caesar began to prepare for a war against the Parthian Empire.

Near the end of the book, Calvin describes and defends the doctrine of predestination, a doctrine advanced by Augustine in opposition to the teachings of Pelagius.

Near the end of his life, Justinian became ever more inclined towards the Monophysite doctrine, especially in the form of Aphthartodocetism, but he died before being able to issue any legislation which would have elevated its teachings to the status of dogma.

Near the end of the 19th century, it was typical for the bride-to-be to receive a sewing thimble rather than an engagement ring.

Near the burial mound are two large water towers, built in the 19th century, which Norwood uses to store water and regulate water pressure throughout its City.

Near Windsor, atop an Indian mound, is a cemetery where members of the family have been buried since the early 19th century.

Near the end of the 19th century, hunting on their migration routes took a heavy toll on this bird's numbers ; the population has since recovered.

Near the end of the 19th century, several scientists existed whose work was also very influential.

Near the end of the 19th century, these groups would in turn be absorbed into the wider socialist political parties and trade unions which placed strong emphasis on unity and cohesion for the purpose of breaking through the electoral monopoly held by liberal and conservative parties.

Mark Cohen, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, in his Under Crescent and Cross, calls the idealized interfaith utopia a " myth " that was first promulgated by Jewish historians such as Heinrich Graetz in the 19th century as a rebuke to Christian countries for their treatment of Jews.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European museums regularly sponsored such excavations throughout the Mediterranean and Near East, sharing the ownership of their discoveries with the host country.

Near the end of the 19th century, the hokku was completely separated from the context of haikai no renga by Masaoka Shiki and revised and written as an independent verse form which he named " haiku ", though retaining the kigo.

Near the center of town, various land claims were platted in the 19th century with differently oriented grids, which have survived until today.

Near the end of the 19th century, logging became the primary activity in the area.

Near the East Alligator River crossing, a figure was painted of a man carrying a gun and wearing his hair in long pigtails down his back ; the latter identified him historically as a Chinese labourer brought to Darwin in the late 19th century.

Near the end of the 19th century, the town focused on the production of coffee, which greatly boosted the local economy.

Near the close of the 19th century, a medical doctor by the name of Gustav Zander developed a complete set of machines similar to Nautilus and also a workout method remarkably close to that promoted by Arthur Jones in the early 1970s.

Near the end of the 19th century, the Lingnan or Cantonese school of " Clip and Grow " styling was developed at a monastery in southeast China.

However, Bernal emphasizes African elements in Ancient Near Eastern culture and denounces the alleged Eurocentrism of 19th and 20th century research, including the very slogan " Ex Oriente Lux " of Orientalists which, according to Bernal, betrays " the Western appropriation of ancient Near Eastern culture for the sake of its own development " ( p. 423 ).

Near Limoges is the Larosse Forest, a man-made forest planted between 1928 and 1980 over the Bourget Desert, itself created as the result of clear cutting in the 19th century.

Near McClintocksville and Oil City, in western Pennsylvania, there is a Pennsylvania State Park and many heritage sites to tell the story and memorialize the people of the oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Near McClintocksville and Oil City, in western Pennsylvania, there is a Pennsylvania State Park and many heritage sites to tell the story and memorialize the people of the oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Near the end of the 19th century the capability of making interchangeable parts from metal was in widespread use.

Near the end of the 19th century, a lumber town called Muskoka Mills was located at the mouth of the river.

) Carr, Tagore and Company ( even earlier, Rustomjee Cowasjee, a Parsi in Calcutta, had formed an inter-racial firm but in the early 19th century, Parsis were classified as a Near Eastern community as opposed to South Asian ).

Near the end of the 19th century, a Prussian officer, Major Fedor Maria von Donat ( 1847 – 1919 ), had an idea ; he would build a channel that followed the base of the mountains, cutting through a sand dune at Terracina.