Near the Danish straits the salinity is close to that of the Kattegat, but still not fully oceanic, because the saltiest water that passes the straits is still already mixed with considerable amounts of outflow water.

The Gerads and the Bari Sultans built impressive palaces, castles and fortresses and had close relations with many different empires in the Near East.

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker ( NEAR Shoemaker ), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.

Near the end of its mission, the Phoenix Lander detected more thin clouds close to the north pole of Mars.

Near to the old Rectory and close to Hanwell spring is a large stone of about a ton in weight.

Intermittent esotropias, again as the name implies, are not always present: They may be visible when looking at close objects but not when looking at distant ones ( Near Esotropia ) or, rarely, when looking at distant objects but not at close ones ( Distance Esotropia ).

Near the end of World War II, in 1944, the first of Gumbinnen's 24, 000 residents began to flee from the advancing Red Army, which was drawing close.

Near the close of Memling's career he was increasingly supported by his workshop.

Near the place of the Swedish town Nyen, close to the Neva river's estuary at the Gulf of Finland, the new Russian capital Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703.

Near the end of the century he sold the island to the Knights Templar, who then sold it to Guy de Lusignan, but kept a large feudal estate at Kolossi, close to Limassol, to themselves.

Professor Amélie Kuhrt, head of Ancient Near Eastern History at University College, London, in one of the standard reference works of the discipline, notes that " Many scholars feel sympathetic to the critique of weaknesses in the existing chronological framework [...], but most archaeologists and ancient historians are not at present convinced that the radical redatings proposed stand up to close examination.

Near the poles, they are close to being logarithmic spirals ( on a stereographic projection they are exactly, see below ), so they wind round each pole an infinite number of times but reach the pole in a finite distance.

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.

Near the close of his discourse John Chrysostom refers to the erection of the church dedicated to Babylas, and to the zeal of the Bishop Meletius in promoting it, who actually took part in the work with his own hands.

This causes the species to be put on the Near Threatened list, meaning it is close to being a threatened species.

Near the close of his embassy, Rochford was an eyewitness to the Madrid Riots of 1766.

Near field communication ( NFC ) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity, usually no more than a few centimetres.

Near the interchange with Interstate 280, SR 85 runs close to the headquarters of Apple Computer and next to De Anza College as well as the titled West Valley College, both community colleges in the area.

Broadly, the Near Umbra ( the Umbra relatively close to Earth ) can be divided into four subtypes, along lines roughly defined by the four videres:

Non-observational work focuses on computations of close approaches of asteroids with the Earth ( linked at Near Earth Object Program at Jet Propulsion Laboratory ) and orbit identifications of asteroids and comets.

* Near the junction of Fenham Carr Lane and Wyresdale Road one mile south east of the City of Lancaster and close to the Ashton Memorial.

The First Amendment and various court decisions ( e. g. Near v. Minnesota ) give very broad rights to anyone to publish a newspaper or other publication, and severely restrict the government in any effort to close down or censor a private publication.

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 series, in the story introducing Inaba, he decides to protect the future where he and Lum get married after he sees how happy she is in this future.

Near the High Street, there is a change in soil type from sandy to clay, which gives rise to local underground springs.

Near the turn of the century, a log jam plugged the channel to Lummi Bay, forcing the river to change its channel to the present one.

Near the end of December, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced a criminal investigation into the leaking of news of a federal tax change for income trusts .< ref >

Holly Near ( born June 6, 1949 in Ukiah, California ) is an American singer-songwriter, actor, teacher, and activist for social change.

Holly Near has been recognized many times for her work for social change, including honors from the ACLU, the National Lawyers Guild, the National Organization for Women, NARAS, Ms. Magazine ( Woman of the Year ), and the Legends of Women's Music Award.

Near the climax of the series, when Hikari attempts to persuade Mari to join her and Takeru on their journeys, Mari slaps Hikari and yells at her, saying that she is a backstabber and an awful friend, ultimately making Hikari change into her " evil " form to destroy the world.

Near the end of the film he has a change of heart, and he is seen putting the star on top of the Christmas tree and becoming a part of Christmastown.

Weber juxtaposed such Messianic prophecies ( also called ethical prophecies ), notably from the Near East region to the exemplary prophecies found on the Asiatic mainland, focused more on reaching to the educated elites and enlightening them on the proper ways to live one's life, usually with little emphasis on hard work and the material world.

In her review in Not Coming to a Theater Near You, Jenny Jediny wrote, " In many ways, The Double Life of Véronique is a small miracle of cinema ; ... Kieslowski ’ s strong, if largely post-mortem reputation among the art house audience has elevated a film that makes little to no sense on paper, while its emotional tone strikes a singular — perhaps perfect — key.

Near Summer's end, Jeffrey observes that a regular onlooker, " Big Sid ", is feeding signals to Brody, the true cause of Brody's winning ways.

For example, the Philistines whom Abraham encounters did not settle in the Middle East until the 12th century BC, camels were not in general use as beasts of burden until the 7th century BC, and the genealogies of the Patriarchs and the nations supposedly derived from them represent " a colorful human map of the ancient Near East from the unmistakable viewpoint of the kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah in the eighth and seventh centuries BC ".

Near Galway the tinkers drove their caravans down to the beach and sang and drank and fought all night.

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 La Libertad, however, the mass of the mountains push the lowlands out ; the slopes of adjacent volcanoes come down directly to the ocean.

Near Luz en route to Haran, Jacob experienced a vision of a ladder, or staircase, reaching into heaven with angels going up and down it, commonly referred to as " Jacob's ladder ".

Near the stern, about halfway down the starboard topsides, was a rounded wooden block about 150 mm in diameter and 100 mm high, with a central hole for a rope.

Near the end of the book, while Ralph is being hunted down, he strikes this twice in one moment of blind anger, causing it to crack and fall on the ground with a grin " now six feet across ".

Near the end of the siege of Kimberley, it was expected that the Boers would intensify their bombardment, so Rhodes displayed a notice encouraging people to go down into shafts of the Kimberley Mine for protection.

Near the school, some of the city's oldest houses, apartments, and commercial buildings were torn down ; they had been run down to the point of being known as the " Warren Avenue slum ".

Near the same coordinates where the DC-3 was shot down, the Sunderland was attacked by eight Ju 88s and after a furious battle, managed to shoot down three of the attackers, scoring an additional three " possibles ," before crash-landing at Penzance.

Near the ShopRite are several restaurants and fast food establishments were built including McDonald's as well as a four-screen movie theater, which recently closed down.

He did not go, for just days before he was to embark for the Near East he proved himself useful to the Directory by putting down a Parisian mob in the whiff of grapeshot and was kept in France.

Near the Al-Azab gates, in a narrow road down from Mukatam Hill, Muhammad Ali's forces ambushed and killed almost all in what came to be known as the Massacre of the Citadel.

The men would walk down from the hill on their way to work each day at the factories east of Tipperary Hill that lined Geddes, Fayette, Marcellus and Oswego streets on the city's Near Westside.

Near the end of the Sacred Mystery of Holy Unction, the person or persons that were anointed will kneel and the Gospel Book is opened and placed on their heads, with the writing down.

Near the top floor, elevators to the top come down shortly after they go up.

Near Strausbourg he is forced to seek accommodations in a cottage after his chaise supposedly breaks down.

Near the end of the last ice age, the Great Lakes drained south down the Hudson River, from a large glacial lake called Lake Iroquois.

Near the start of the Civil War, Parker tried to raise a regiment of Iroquois volunteers to fight for the Union, but was turned down by New York Governor Edwin D. Morgan.

This volume covers Ancient Greece and the Hellenistic Near East down to the Roman conquest.

Near Glynneath, the road heads down along the floor of the Vale of Neath bypassing Resolven, Neath and Skewen before terminating at its junction with the M4 motorway, junction 43, at Llandarcy.

Near this place a number of streams unite to form the river Arinos, which at latitude 10 degrees 25 ' joins the Juruena to form the Alto Tapajós, so called as far down as the Rio Manoel, which enters it from the east.

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.