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 decade, he made a cameo appearance in Welles's Touch of Evil ( 1958 ) and a starring role in the film adaptation of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon ( also 1958 ).

Near the end of the decade, some comic science fiction shows were popular: 3rd Rock from the Sun, and the animated series Futurama.

It was as a military commander that Trajan is best known to history, particularly for his conquests in the Near East, but initially for the two wars against Dacia — the reduction to client kingdom ( 101 – 102 ), followed by actual incorporation into the Empire of the trans-Danube border kingdom of Dacia — an area that had troubled Roman thought for over a decade with the unfavourable ( and to some, shameful ) peace negotiated by Domitian's ministers.

Near the end of the decade, she starred in two films based on best-selling novels by her younger sister Jackie Collins: The Stud ( 1978 ) and its sequel The Bitch ( 1979 ).

Wilson also wanted to reinforce the Near East-although not enough to satisfy Amery-lest Germany and Turkey were left free by the collapse of Russia to expand there, which would improve their position in any future war a decade hence.

Near the end of the decade, Chaykin started to drift back into comics and co-wrote with David Tischman the three-issue mini-series Pulp Fantastic for the Vertigo imprint of DC, with art by Rick Burchett.

Near the town is the home of world show jumping champion Ian Millar and Millar Brooke Farm where his great horse Big Ben ( 1976 – 1999 ) is buried.

“ Petrie ’ s Head: Eugenics and Near Eastern Archaeology ”, in Alice B. Kehoe and Mary Beth Emmerichs, Assembling the Past ( Albuquerque, NM, 1999 ).

Near the small town Goseck archaeologists discovered in 1999 the oldest solar observatory in Europe, beating Stonehenge by more than 2000 years.

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 update of Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines and his 1990 book The Age of Intelligent Machines.

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 1999, his collection of poems Nær afstanden ( Near the Distance ) was published in Arabic, translated by Jamal Jumá ( Alwah publishers, Madrid ).

Near the end of that year they appeared on FX ’ s Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular accompanied by Penn & Teller's show dancers, which aired in January 1999.

The discovery hastened the negotiations over the composition of TPC, and on 31 July 1928 the shareholders signed a formal partnership agreement to include the Near East Development Corporation ( NEDC ), an American consortium of five large US oil companies that included Standard Oil of New Jersey ( later Exxon, eventually ExxonMobil in 1999 ), Standard Oil Company of New York ( Socony ) ( later Mobil, which eventually amalgamated to ExxonMobil ), Gulf Oil ( which later merged with Chevron in 1984 ), the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company, and Atlantic Richfield Co. ( later ARCO ; eventually acquired by BP in 1999 ).

Written in 1996, " Near Fantastica " was originally stated by Good to have been musically similar to " Suburbia " ( from Beautiful Midnight ) and vocally similar to " Every Name Is My Name " ( from Last of the Ghetto Astronauts ) On Avalanche the lyrics were altered slightly from those Good posted online in 1999.

Helene J. Kantor, Plant Ornament in the Ancient Near East, Revised: 11 August 1999, Copyright 1999 Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

* Jay Reise -- " Dragonflies Sing Near " ( 1999 )

He took his PhD at Yale University in Near Eastern Studies ( 1965 ) and a ThD h. c. from the University of Lausanne ( 1999 ).

Near the end of 1999, guitarist / keyboardist / flautist Matthew Reid Schwartz was added to the line-up.

In 1999, based on on a reanalyis of pottery shards ( a method which can provide highly accurate dates in the context of the ancient Near East ), Wood argued that Jericho could have been captured in the Late Bronze Age by Joshua.