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Near the end of the Han Dynasty in the beginning of the 3rd century, Jingzhou was ruled by regional warlord Liu Biao.
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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 and Han
Near the end of the Yuuzhan Vong war, she and Han rescue Thorsh, a prisoner from the internment camps of planet Selvaris.
Near the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhejiang was home to the minor warlords Yan Baihu and Wang Lang.
The Roman Empire and Han China progressively inched closer in the course of the Roman expansion into the Ancient Near East and simultaneous Chinese military incursions into Central Asia.
Near and Dynasty
* Near the end of the An Shi rebellion, Tibetan troops occupy Chang ' an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
Near the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was an effort to extend the province system of China proper to the rest of the empire.
Beginning with Lugal-zage-si and the Third Dynasty of Uruk ( which was defeated by Sargon of Akkad ), a better understanding of how subsequent rulers fit into the chronology of the ancient Near East can be deduced.
Near the end of Wang Mang's Xin Dynasty ( AD 9 – AD 23 ), Lü Zhi's body was desecrated by Chimei rebels when they raided Gaozu's tomb.
* A. Ahrens, A Stone Vessel with Hieroglyphic Inscription from Tomb VII at Tell Mišrife / Qatna ( Syria ): Yet Another Object Naming a Princess of the Middle Kingdom ( 12th Dynasty ) in the Northern Levant, Egypt and the Near East — The Crossroads.
Near and beginning
Near the beginning of the first book of the Elements, Euclid gives five postulates ( axioms ) for plane geometry, stated in terms of constructions ( as translated by Thomas Heath ):
With the emergence of monarchy at the beginning of Iron Age II the king promoted his own family god, Yahweh, as the god of the kingdom, but beyond the royal court religion continued to be both polytheistic and family-centered, as it was also for other societies in the Ancient Near East.
The widespread use of iron weapons which replaced bronze weapons rapidly disseminated throughout the Near East ( southwest Asia ) by the beginning of the 1st millennium BC.
Near the end of World War II, the United States military invaded the Mariana Islands on June 15, 1944, beginning with the Battle of Saipan, which ended on July 9 with the Japanese commander committing seppuku ( a traditional Japanese form of ritual suicide ).
However the idea of immortality which appears in the syncretistic religions of Near East did not exist in the Eleusinian mysteries at the very beginning.
Near the end of the recovery, the rower squares the blade ( rotates the blade to perpendicular to the water ), and then repeats the stroke again, beginning with the catch.
Near the beginning of the tale, the narrator says he would be " mad indeed " if he should expect a reader to believe the story, implying that he has already been accused of madness.
Near the beginning of A Matter of Loaf and Death, Wigan is referenced on the newspaper Wallace is reading, and near the end, while looking for somewhere appropriate to dispose of a bomb, Gromit sees the Yorkshire border from their home ( a joke referencing the rivalry between Lancashire and Yorkshire ).
Near the end of the 2nd millennium BCE, new waves of barbarians, this time riding on horseback, wholly destroyed the Bronze Age world, and were to be followed by waves of social changes that marked the beginning of different times.
Near the beginning of the essay, Derrida argued:
Pewter was first used around the beginning of the Bronze Age in the Near East.
" Near the beginning of his administration, Nixon ordered Mitchell to implement school desegregation in the South to comply with court rulings largely ignored by three previous administrations.
Near the beginning of the 20th century, it was shown that a result of Fermat's little theorem could be used to test for primality.
Near the beginning of the Warring States Period there is a shift from chariots to massed infantry, possibly associated with the invention of the crossbow.
Near the end of Ptolemy's reign, the value of Egyptian coins dropped to about fifty percent of its value at the beginning of his reign.
Near the entrance of the cathedral, a rich merchant, Bartolomeu Joanes, built a funerary chapel for himself in the beginning of the 14th century.
Near the end of Armada, the Autobots and Decepticons join forces to defeat the planet-devouring Unicron, and the beginning of Energon sees them as uneasy allies.
Near the beginning of the 18th century, a manuscript of Perotti ( 1430 – 1480 ), archbishop of Siponto ( Manfredonia, in Apulia ), was discovered at Parma containing sixty-four fables of Phaedrus, of which some thirty were previously unknown.
Near the beginning of the Christian era, the Latin alphabet had already undergone its principal changes, and had become a definite system.
New Chronology is an alternative Chronology of the ancient Near East developed by English Egyptologist David Rohl and other researchers beginning with A Test of Time: The Bible-from Myth to History in 1995.
Near the end of the Swedish rule the defence structures of Narva were greatly improved – beginning in 1680s, an outstanding system of bastions, planned by the renowned Swedish military engineer Erik Dahlbergh, was built around the town.
Near the beginning of each episode of The New Yankee Workshop, Abram recites a standard monologue about safety.
Near the end it is heard in the strings in stretto ( overlapping entries, a new one beginning before the last has ended ).
Near the beginning, Alice discovers and reads " Jabberwocky ".
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