The Chicago River is the south border ( right ) of the Near North Side, Chicago | Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border ( left ) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center ( from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge with Trump International Hotel and Tower ( Chicago ) | Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center )

The city, along with the rest of southern Mesopotamia and much of the Near East, Asia Minor, North Africa and southern Caucasus, fell to the north Mesopotamian Assyrian Empire from the 10th to late 7th centuries BC.

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

The main hypotheses are that they are indigenous, probably stemming from the Villanovan culture, or that they are the result of invasion from the north or the Near East.

Among the offering recovered from the cave, the most spectacular are decorated bronze shields with patterns that draw upon north Syrian originals and a bronze gong on which a god and his attendants are shown in a distinctly Near Eastern style.

Near the north end of Loch Lomond, which can be reached by boat from the Clyde, lies Clach nam Breatann, the Rock of the Britains, which is thought to have gained its name as a marker at the northern limit of Alt Clut.

Sippar ( Sumerian: Zimbir ) was an ancient Near Eastern city on the east bank of the Euphrates river, located at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah in Iraq's Babil Governorate, some 60 km north of Babylon and 30 km southeast of Baghdad.

Near Malta, it turns north, then southeast, flowing past Glasgow and joining the Missouri in Valley County, Montana, downstream from Fort Peck Dam.

Terrell Hills is bordered on west by Alamo Heights, on the east by Fort Sam Houston, on the north by Uptown San Antonio, and on the south by San Antonio's Near East Side.

Near the Cowie Bridge, at the north of Stonehaven, was a prior historic fishing village known as Cowie, which area has now been subsumed into Stonehaven.

Near its perimeter the park terrain is about in the north and in the south and climbs to at the summit of the Brocken.

* Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides, first described by Temminck in 1829, is found in the Canary Islands through north Africa and the Near East to Mesopotamia.

Near the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu became a great power under King Helu of Wu, and was able to defeat in 484 BC the state of Qi, a major power in the north in modern-day Shandong province, and contest for the position of overlord over all states of China.

Near the tracks, a large market ( Central Market ) and a railroad station rose on the north side of the Mall.

Near the village of Taginae ( traditionally located somewhere to the north of modern Gualdo Tadino ), Narses encountered the Ostrogothic army commanded by King Totila, who had been advancing to intercept him.

Near the end of the 20th century the advent of satellite-based Global Positioning Systems ( GPS ) provided yet another means for any individual to determine true north accurately.

Near the town centre is Maumbury Rings, an ancient British henge earthwork converted by the Romans for use as an amphitheatre, and to the north west is Poundbury Hill, another pre-Roman fortification.

They inhabit the dry hot regions of north Africa, Ethiopia, Near East and western to central Asia.

Both cemeteries such as the Kerameikos in Athens or Lefkandi and sanctuaries such as Olympia, recently-founded Delphi or the Heraion of Samos, first of the colossal free-standing temples, are richly provided with offerings including items from the Near East, from Egypt and from Italy made of exotic materials such as amber or ivory, while exports of Greek pottery demonstrate contact with the Levant coast at such sites as Al Mina and with the region of the Villanovan culture to the north of Rome.

However, in 1941 British forces successfully fought Vichy forces for control of Syria and Lebanon, thus removing the threat of invasion from the north, at least as long as German armies in Eastern Europe could be held back by the Red Army and thus unable to easily advance towards the Near East from the north.

Near Garner, US 69 briefly heads west concurrent with US 18, but soons splits off from it and heads north.

Near the rim of the canyon, the highway curves north out of the Brea Canyon, and descends slightly to a junction with the Pomona Freeway ( SR 60 ) in Diamond Bar, right on the edge of the San Gabriel Valley.

2009 view from Lake Shore Drive of Chicago River, the south border ( right ) of the Near North Side, Chicago | Near North Side and Streeterville and north border ( left ) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center ( with: en: Trump International Hotel and Tower ( Chicago ) | Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center )

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.