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.

* Lönnqvist, Minna ( 2008 ) " Kathleen M. Kenyon 1906-1978, A hundred years after her birth, The formative years of a female archaeologist: From socio-politics to the stratigraphical method and the radiocarbon revolution in archaeology ," in Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Madrid, April 3 – 8, 2006, ed.

As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities ; Near Eastern Antiquities ; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities ; Islamic Art ; Sculpture ; Decorative Arts ; Paintings ; Prints and Drawings.

" in Mordechai Cogan and Dan ` el Kahn ( eds ), Treasures on Camels ' Humps: Historical and Literary Studies from the Ancient Near East Presented to Israel Eph ' al ( Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 2008 ).

After the 2008 South Ossetia war, Bildt wrote on his blog that the Russian rationale for its intervention, i. e. concern for the welfare of its expatriates in the Near Abroad, had certain similarities with the rationale for the annexation of Sudetenland.

* Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, "" Shutting Up " the Enemy: Literary Gleanings from Sargon's Eighth Campaign ," in Mordechai Cogan and Dan ' el Kahn ( eds ), Treasures on Camels ' Humps: Historical and Literary Studies from the Ancient Near East Presented to Israel Eph ' al ( Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 2008 ),

* Amitai Baruchi-Unna, " Crossing the Boundaries: Literary Allusions to the Epic of Gilgamesh in the Account of Esarhaddon's Egyptian Campaign ," in Mordechai Cogan and Dan ' el Kahn ( eds ), Treasures on Camels ' Humps: Historical and Literary Studies from the Ancient Near East Presented to Israel Eph ` al ( Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 2008 ),

* Erle Leichty, " Esarhaddon's Eastern Campaign ," in Mordechai Cogan and Dan ' el Kahn ( eds ), Treasures on Camels ' Humps: Historical and Literary Studies from the Ancient Near East Presented to Israel Eph ' al ( Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 2008 ),

Consequently, it is uplisted to Near Threatened status in 2008.

In 2008, McKennitt wrote and composed a song she titled " To The Fairies They Draw Near " as the theme song for Disney's direct-to-video animated film Tinker Bell.

Near the end of 2008, Sánchez announced he would retire the show after almost 19 years.

In 2008, the IUCN classified Asian golden cats as Near Threatened, stating that the species comes close to qualifying as Vulnerable due to hunting pressure and habitat loss, since Southeast Asian forests are undergoing the world's fastest regional deforestation rates.

Following the investigation of the apparent decline this was confirmed, and the Dartford Warbler was consequently uplisted to Near Threatened status in 2008.

Near Ryde at Westridge from 2008 until 2011 was the Carnival Learning Centre, funded by the Skills Funding Agency and Arts Council, where carnival skills and crafts were taught.

In a September 2008 publication of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Giora Eiland wrote that:

David Pollack, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, December 2008

Since 2008, the species is listed as Near Threatened by IUCN, as it is experiencing significant declines due to hunting, habitat degradation and fragmentation

Near Avenue L what was believed to be the largest all-kosher supermarket in the United States opened in August 2008.

:: Near missed Mars on January 9, 2008

* Joel Achenbach, " A ' Dead Zone ' in The Gulf of Mexico: Scientists Say Area That Cannot Support Some Marine Life Is Near Record Size ", Washington Post, July 31, 2008

Its status was first evaluated for the IUCN Red List in 2008, being listed as Near threatened.

Near Mexicali, along the Cerro Prieto Fault, over 500 quakes and aftershocks occurred during a two week period in February 2008.

The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer ( NICMOS ) is a scientific instrument for infrared astronomy, installed on the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ), operating from 1997 to 1999, and from 2002 to 2008.

In 2008, " Near Future Technopop Unit " Perfume, which got famous with their hit song of that year " Polyrhythm ", sang on the stage for the first time.

File: Attu Island, part of the Near Islands. jpg | Near Islands in 2008