Near the tracks of the C & O's Hampton Branch was a normal school dedicated primarily in its earliest years to training teachers to provide educational opportunities for the South's African-Americans who were mostly illiterate newly freed former slaves.

On occasion, White also plays other instruments, such as a Black Gibson F-4 mandolin (" Little Ghost "), piano ( on most tracks from Get Behind Me Satan, and various others ), and an electric piano on such tracks as " The Air Near My Fingers " and " I'm Finding it Harder to be a Gentleman ".

" He is significantly the co-lead singer on other notable tracks, including " Break Away ," " Winds of Change ," " California Calling ," " Somewhere Near Japan " and " I Know There's an Answer.

* Musical Highlights, Redwood Records / Calico tracks Music ( 1993 ) ( from the play Fire in the Rain written by Holly Near & Timothy Near )

Near Broad, the tracks turned south towards the terminals of the two lines: the P & C's at the southeast corner of Broad and Callowhill, the P & R's at Broad and Cherry.

Linda Ronstadt has recorded a number of her songs, notably three tracks on the 1976 album Hasten Down the Wind – " Someone To Lay Down Beside Me ," " Lose Again ," and " If He's Ever Near "-- which introduced the then-unknown Bonoff to a mass audience.

Near the north end of the station, there are two bridges above the tracks, each of which has two staircases going down to each platform.

Near impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

* 732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe.

Through Somali and Arab traders, Indian / Chinese cinnamon was also exported for far higher prices to North Africa, the Near East and Europe, which made the cinnamon trade a very profitable revenue maker, especially for the Somali merchants through whose hands the large quantities were shipped across the ancient sea and land routes.

Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men defeat a large army of Moors under the governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, who is killed during the battle.

* October 10 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors under the governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, who is killed during the battle.

Near the old Venetian Citadel a large square called Spianada is also to be found, divided by a street in two parts: " Ano Plateia " ( literally: " Upper square ") and " Kato Plateia " ( literally: " Lower square "), ( Ανω Πλατεία and Κάτω Πλατεία in Greek ).

These Greek stories of the Titanomachy fall into a class of similar myths throughout Europe and the Near East, where one generation or group of gods by and large opposes the dominant one.

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

A large portion of the population works outside of Jersey County and benefits from being " Near the crowd, but not in it.

Near Seaton's Farm is Ben Halls camping and picnic area with well designed fireplace / barbecues, large enough to permit the use of camp ovens, your own barbecue or for an open fire as well as having its own BBQ plate.

Near the Butterfield light rail station, the California Franchise Tax Board has a large office complex.

Near the center of the coast lies Little Harbor, a large inlet divided from the ocean by Beach Island.

Near the windows was a large wood stove for warmth, and several chairs placed in a roundabout manner for those who wished to sit and “ gab .”

Near the burial mound are two large water towers, built in the 19th century, which Norwood uses to store water and regulate water pressure throughout its City.

Near the university ( which begins at the brick building in the background on the left ), many large early-Twentieth Century houses have been converted into student apartments.

Near the station are the village primary school ( a large red sandstone Grade B listed Art Nouveau building dating from 1912 to 1914 ), a small general store and a community centre ( all in Brock Street ).

Near the monastery there is a large fishpond with a scenic view and a tall windmill built in 1839.

Near the back is a large triptych-style fold-out drawing.

Near Visp there is a large aluminium processing plant.

Near its terminus, the Mojave River flows out onto a large inland delta called the Mojave River Wash at the western edge of Mojave National Preserve.

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.

: Near that temple is a very large tree with widespread branches which are always green both in winter and summer.

Near Fremont, the Platte bends south and then east around the location of Omaha in a large " L " turn.

Near the edge of the WPI campus is a large Tudor-style mansion built in 1923 by WPI alumnus Aldus Chapin Higgins and later bequeathed to his alma mater.

Near the end of 1998, 3dfx released the Banshee, which used a lower price achieved through higher component integration, and a more complete feature-set including 2D acceleration, to target the mainstream consumer market.

Near the port the Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle factory is located which produces Daewoo trucks for the domestic and the exporting market.

Near its " Cabbage Patch " rental district, Grosse Pointe Park has retail and restaurants on multiple cross-streets, as well as a farmer's market held weekly during the warm months.

Near to the location of his para drop during operation market garden in Groesbeek a residential area is named in his honour.

Near the end of the season, Juventus reportedly rejected a € 70 million bid for him from Real Madrid, which was later revealed to be a publicity stunt initiated by Ibrahimović's agent, Mino Raiola, in order to increase his market value.

Near the end of the third season, O-town fans and television viewers watched as they tried to take their careers to the next level by writing their own music, earn the respect of their industry peers, and market themselves beyond being labeled as a " boy band ".

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

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

Ukraine's various highland regions include the Volyn-Podillia Upland and the Near-Dnipro Upland ( on the right bank of Dnipro River ) in the west, the south-western spurs of the Central Russian Uplands upon which runs the border with Russia in the east, and the Donets Ridge and the Near Azov Upland near the Sea of Azov.

About a century before the middle of the millennium, bands of Indo-European invaders came from the Central Asia plains and swept through the Near East.

Near the end of the short election campaign, there appeared in the press the text of a letter purporting to have originated from Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Executive Committee of the Communist International ( Comintern ) and Arthur MacManus, the British representative to ECCI, and addressed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Following Cyrus the Great's conquest of the Near East and Central Asia, Cambyses II further expanded the empire into Egypt during the Late Period by defeating the Egyptian pharaoh Psamtik III during the battle of Pelusium in 525 BCE.

Logographic systems, or logographies, include the earliest true writing systems ; the first historical civilizations of the Near East, Africa, China, and Central America used some form of logographic writing.

Trading routes between Central Asia, China and the Near East passed through the oases on the plateau and these ancient Altai nomads profited from the rich trade and culture passing through.

The Western wing on the second floor features collections of the Oriental art ( from China, India, Mongolia, Tibet, Central Asia, Byzantium and Near East ).

His travels were extensive and included Europe, Russia, the Near East, North Africa ( 9 weeks with own caravan ), the West Indies, Central Africa, and a ride across Central America on horseback.

The bağlama (, from bağlamak, " to tie ", ) is a stringed musical instrument shared by various cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean, Near East, and Central Asia.

James Hardesty Critchfield ( January 30, 1917-April 22, 2003 ) was an officer of the US Central Intelligence Agency who rose to become the chief of its Near East and South Asia division.

Eric Halfpenny, writing in the 1988 Encyclopædia Britannica, says " bowing can be traced as far back as the Islamic civilization of the 10th century ... it seems likely that the principle of bowing originated among the nomadic horse riding cultures of Central Asia, whence it spread quickly through Islam and the East, so that by 1000 it had almost simultaneously reached China, Java, North Africa, the Near East and Balkans, and Europe.

The jaguar, whose numbers in Central and South America have been classified as Near Threatened, acts as a keystone predator by its widely varied diet, helping to balance the mammalian jungle ecosystem with its consumption of 87 different species of prey.

As a result of these findings its status on the IUCN Red List was moved to " Vulnerable " globally ( from " Lower Risk / Near Threatened ") and " Critically Endangered " in the Northwest and Western Central Atlantic areas.

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It was developed by artificial selection of the domesticated emmer wheat ( like emmer, durum wheat is awned ) strains formerly grown in Central Europe and the Near East around 7000 B. C., which developed a naked, free-threshing form.

Main fields of scientific activity of Giorgi Tsereteli were: Arabic dialects of the Central Asia, Arabic linguistics and folklore, Hebrew and Aramaic studies, history of old languages of the Near East, history of writing systems, history of the Georgian script, source studies of the history of Georgia and the Caucasus, Rustvelology, questions of theoretical linguistics, etc.

In many countries on the African continent, Central and South America as well as the Near, Middle and Far East this is still the case in the regions within these large geographies where the traditional village blacksmith remains alive and well.

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Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Southwest Asia and much of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

It evolved over the centuries, and in the different cultures Islamic dynasties came to rule in Central — South Asia, the Near East, North Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula.

The traditional homeland of the Rai extends across Solukhumbu, Okhaldhunga ( Wallo Kirat or Near Kirat ), home of the Nachhiring, Bahing, Wambule, Dumi subgroups ); Khotang, Bhojpur and the Udayapur Districts ( Majh Kirat or Central Kirat ), home of Bantawa, Chamling, in the northeastern hilly region of Nepal, west of the Arun River in the Sun Kosi River watershed.