Near the west end of Lake Thun, the river receives the waters of the Kander, which has just been joined by the Simme.

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 )

Near Suratgarh the Ghaggar is then joined by the dried up Drishadvati river.

Near Djelfa, in the Great Atlas, and at Mechra-Sfa (" ford of the flat stones "), a peninsula in the valley of the river Mina not far from Tiaret, are vast numbers of megalithic monuments.

This was followed by The Danube in Prehistory ( 1929 ), in which Childe examined the archaeology along the Danube river, recognising it as the natural boundary dividing the Near East from Europe, and subsequently he believed that it was via the Danube that various new technologies travelled westward in antiquity.

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 the river are the Deer Creek / Bryson Paddock Sites where archaeologists have excavated the ruins of two prominent 18th century Wichita Indian villages.

Near the former wooden Putney Bridge, built in 1729 and replaced in 1886, the earl of Essex threw a bridge of boats across the river in 1642 in order to march his army in pursuit of Charles I, who thereupon fell back on Oxford.

Near Emden it flows into the Dutch Dollard bay ( a national park ) and then continues as a tidal river towards the Dutch city of Delfzijl.

Near the rural community of Martock, the river enters a broad glacial river valley forming a ria ) where it becomes tidal, creating an estuary for its remaining route to the Minas Basin several kilometres downriver from the town of Hantsport.

Near the northern end of the canyon, Forest Road 4260 ( Lower Imnaha Road ), the last part of which is too rough for most cars, reaches the river at Dug Bar, from Imnaha, Oregon.

Near the fourteenth century AD, Māori arrived in Heretaunga or Hawke's Bay, settling in the river valleys and along the coast where food was plentiful.

Near Elmer, Oklahoma, the North Fork finally joins, and the river proceeds to follow a winding course east through one of the most arid parts of the Great Plains, receiving the Wichita River from the right as it passes the city of Wichita Falls.

Near Denison, the river exits the eastern end of Lake Texoma, a reservoir formed by the Denison Dam.

Near Samedan, the river Flaz joins the Inn and the valley opens into a wide meadow framed with mountains.

Near the mouth the river has an average annual discharge of, although this varies widely.

Near the eastern coast, it ran along the line of the Trigno river.

Near its mouth, the river is spanned by a New Jersey Transit railroad bridge which carries the North Jersey Coast Line ; the Victory Bridge which carries Route 35 ( connecting Perth Amboy and Sayreville, New Jersey ); the Edison Bridge, which carries U. S. Route 9 ( connecting Woodbridge Township and Sayreville ); and the Driscoll Bridge, which carries the Garden State Parkway ( connecting Woodbridge Township and Sayreville ).

Near the mouth of the river in Cleveland's Flats

Near Sargans a natural dam, only a few metres high, prevents it from flowing into the open Seeztal valley and then trough Lake Walen and Lake Zurich into the river Aare.

Near the end of the work, Renaud is forced to cede Bayard to Charlemagne who, as punishment for the horse's exploits, has a large stone tied to Bayard's neck and the horse pushed into the river ; Bayard however smashes the stone with his hooves and escapes to live forever more in the woods.

Near the mouth of the river, Dearne Mouth washland, which is now known as the Denaby Ings Nature Reserve, was created in 1963, and a manually operated sluice allowed the flow of the river to be diverted through the floodbank and into the washland when there were high levels at the junction with the River Don.

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

While these and other ancient Near Eastern texts consider comparable issues, scholars have not found their direct antecedent.

* 1949 – United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.

* In Die Erde is nah: die Marsexpedition ( 1970 ), by Ludek Pesek, published in English as The Earth is Near ( 1973 ), a crew of twenty men undertake the first manned mission to Mars, and after landing in the wrong area due to computer malfunction and / or human error, have to cope with vicious sand storms, and a long trek undertaken in vehicles to their original intended area of exploration.

Near their edges, the plateaus are cut by deep canyons, and at several points spectacular waterfalls drop to the narrow coastal plain.

Currently, the LDS Church has a Jerusalem Center in Israel, where students focus their study on Near Eastern history, culture, language, and the Bible.

Many peoples of the Near, Middle East and Central Asia claim Nasreddin as their own ( e. g., Turks, Afghans, Iranians, and Uzbeks ).

In the Ancient Near East, the priesthood also acted on behalf of the deities in managing their property.

The dynasty's interference with the Assyrian sphere of influence in the Near East caused a confrontation between Egypt and the powerful Assyrian Empire, which controlled a vast empire comprising much of the Middle East, Asia Minor, Caucasus and East Mediterannean from their Mesopotamian homeland.

By 313 BC, Hellenic ideas had begun their almost 250-year expansion into the Near East, Middle East, and Central Asian cultures.

Near the end of the ninth year since the landing, the Achaean army, tired from the fighting and from the lack of supplies, mutinied against their leaders and demanded to return to their homes.

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 ).

The Near East in 1135, showing the four Crusader states and their Muslim neighbors in shades of green.

Although the group has released numerous studio and live recordings, a substantial number of their fans were introduced to Tangerine Dream by their film soundtracks, which total over sixty and include Sorcerer, Thief, The Keep, Risky Business, Firestarter, Legend, Near Dark, Shy People, and Miracle Mile.

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.

Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern sailors would frequently paint the symbol on the bow of their vessel to ensure safe sea travel.

True arches, as opposed to corbel arches, were known by a number of civilizations in the Ancient Near East, the Levant, and Mexico, but their use was infrequent and mostly confined to underground structures such as drains where the problem of lateral thrust is greatly diminished.

The Northern Texas Traction Company operated 84 miles of streetcar railways in 1925, and their lines connected downtown Fort Worth to TCU, the Near Southside, Arlington Heights, Lake Como, and the Stockyards.

Arches of this type were used in the Near East in pre-Islamic as well as Islamic architecture before they were structurally employed in medieval architecture, and are thus thought to have been the inspiration for their use in France, as at Autun Cathedral, which is otherwise stylistically Romanesque.

Near Abū Qīr, on 8 March 1801, units of the British army commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby landed from their transports in the face of a strenuous opposition from a French force entrenched on the beach.

The researchers conclude that their data, taken from the modern Tuscan population, ' support the scenario of a post-Neolithic genetic input from the Near East to the present-day population of Tuscany ’.

Near the end of his first term, Mulroney gave a formal apology and a $ 300 million compensation package to the families of the 22, 000 Japanese Canadians who had been divested of their property and interned during World War II.

The 2nd century writer Lucian gave an account of the Greek Deucalion in De Dea Syria that seems to refer more to the Near Eastern flood legends: in his version, Deucalion ( whom he also calls Sisythus ) took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij ( northern Syria ), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters ; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.