Near the main square is a clock, decorated with dragons, which is now an open-air theatre site and art and craft stores and the Tashi supermarket.

Frenzied women like Sibyls from whose lips the god speaks are recorded in the Near East as Mari in the second millennium BC.

Recently however, funding of projects such as the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research and Near Earth Asteroid Tracking projects has meant that most comets are now discovered by automated systems, long before it is possible for amateurs to see them.

File: Carved ivory depicting a woman at a window. jpg | Carved ivory object from the Nimrud Ivories, Phoenician, Nimrud, 9th-8th century BC ( the Nimrud Ivories are widely considered to be one of the Ancient Near East's greatest discoveries )

A total of twenty Ptolemaic constellations are directly continued from the Ancient Near East.

* 10 Metropolises, out of which 7 Metropolises are in Egypt, 1 Metropolis in the Near East and 2 Metropolises are in Europe ; served by 4 Metropolitan Archbishops and 4 Metropolitan Bishops, while 2 Metropolis remain vacant ; out of the 8 Hierarchs, 1 Metropolitan Archbishop is in the Near East, 2 in Metropolitan Archbishops are in Egypt and 1 Metropolitan Archbishop is in The United Kingdom, while all 4 Metropolitan Bishops are in Egypt.

The highest mountains of the West Indies are in this range: Pico Duarte, 3, 098 m, and others above 3, 000 m. Near the center of the island, this range turns southward and is called Sierra de Ocoa, finishing near the city of Azua de Compostela, on the Caribbean coast.

Near the bridge on the Peninsula are Menlo Park's Bayfront Park, East Palo Alto's Ravenswood Open Space Preserve, and the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve.

There are also numerous community and special interest stations, including Dublin City FM ( 103. 2 MHz ), Dublin South FM ( 93. 9 MHz ), Liffey Sound FM ( 96. 4 MHz ), Near FM ( 90. 3 MHz ), Phoenix FM ( 92. 5 MHz ), Raidió na Life ( 106. 4 MHz ) and West Dublin Access Radio ( 96. 0 MHz ).

Near the former suburb other buildings and places are still named after him until now: the Albertbrücke, the Alberthafen, the Albertplatz and the Albertinum.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

Near Fonni, too, are several menhirs ( called pietre celtiche in the district ) and other prehistoric remains like nuraghes.

The collections are: Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka ( 1831-1832 ) with the stories St John's Eve and A Terrible Vengeance, Arabesques ( 1835 ), with the story The Portrait, and Mirgorod ( 1835 ), with the story Viy.

Near the lake are the archaeological areas of Orrui and San Michele di Fonni.

Near the castle ruins, on the West Hill, are " St Clement's Caves ", partly natural, but mainly excavated by hand by the smugglers from the soft sandstone.

Near the Old Town is the district Calenberger Neustadt where the Catholic Church of St. Clemens, the Reformed Church, and the Lutheran Neustädter Kirche are located.

Unlike other ancient Near Eastern gods, the Hebrew God is portrayed as unitary and solitary ; consequently, the Hebrew God's principal relationships are not with other gods, but with the world, and more specifically, with the people He created.

Near the beam " waist " ( or focal region ) it is highly collimated: the wavefronts are planar, normal to the direction of propagation, with no beam divergence at that point.

* 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne ; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

* Near Strathtay and Strathmore, where many four-poster stone formations can be found

* c. 9000 BC: Near East: First stone structures at Jericho are built.

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

Near the Casselman Bridge, a historic stone arch bridge, is Penn Alps Restaurant and The Spruce Forest Artisan Village, which was founded in 1957 by Alta Schrock.

Near this fort in the same year, about three and one-half miles above downtown Rogersville, Colonel Amis erected a fort-like stone house, around which he built a palisade for protection against Native American attacks.

Near San Guillerme's house is a stone now known as " St William's Stone " ( Pedra de San Guillerme ).

Milos natural glass used for razor sharp " stone tools " was transported well before farming began and later: " There is no early farming village in the Near East that doesn't get obsidian ".

Near Wilsede there is also a well-known stone and juniper group with the name Hannibal's Grave ( Hannibals Grab ).

Near the foot of the stone flight of steps is a stone pillar with a Telugu inscription, recording grants of villages.

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 this bridge the precipices were so impractible that the path had to be supported on iron pegs let into the face of the rock-the path being formed by bars of iron and slabs of stone stretching from peg to peg and covered with earth.

Near the fortress is a museum of stone crosses.

Near Hartington is the finest neolithic stone circle in the Peak District, Arbor Low.

Near the summit of San Jacinto peak is a stone hut that was built in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps under the direction of Serbo-Croatian immigrant Alfred Zarubicka, a stonemason known in Idyllwild as " Zubi.

Near the canal runs an ancient stone trackway, the Diolkos, once used for dragging ships overland.

Near Lower Yelland Farm is a Bronze Age megalithic site consisting of a double stone row.

Near the northern extremity of the island is a quarry where much of the stone that makes up the architecture of the island was mined.

Near Exshaw, according to Edna ( Hill ) Appleby, author of Canmore: The Story of An Era, there remains a stone bridge built by Mr. Gerussi.

Siege warfare of the ancient Near East took place behind walls built of mud bricks, stone, wood or a combination of these materials depending on local availability.

The Freer houses over 25, 000 objects spanning 6, 000 years of history, including but not limited to ancient Egyptian stone sculpture and wooden objects, ancient Near Eastern ceramics and metalware, Chinese paintings and ceramics, Korean pottery and porcelain, Japanese folding screens, Persian manuscripts, and Buddhist sculpture.

Near the building ’ s entrance, there are several grotesque faces carved in stone.

Near Cheltenham is the fine 15th-century mansion of Southam de la Bere, of timber and stone.