With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a tiny village in the English Lake District near Ambleside in 1905.

Visiting Hill Top every chance she got, Potter ’ s books written during this period ( such as The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, about the local shop in Near Sawrey and The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, a wood mouse ) reflect her increasing participation in village life and her delight in country living.

The eight books in the series starting with the Tale of Hill Top Farm ( 2004 ) deal with her life in the Lake District and the village of Near Sawrey between 1905 and 1913.

* Near the Gloucestershire village of Uley, Downham Hill is locally known as " Smallpox Hill " for its possible role in Jenner's studies of the disease.

Near Port Stanley, there is an Indian village dating from the 16th century known as the Southwold Earthworks where as many as 800 Neutral Indians once lived ; the archaeological remains include double earth walls winding around the grass – covered perimeter.

Near the village are many remains of ancient buildings, Egyptian, Greek and Roman.

Near the village there are four on the west side, and two on the east side.

Near the village are two points of interest, the Crenshaw House and the Garden of the Gods Wilderness.

Near the village is a shallow lake, called " Het Leekstermeer " ( also called Zulthemeer ), with recreational facilities.

Near Piscatawaytown village, a portion of the Township was informally known as " Nixon ," after Lewis Nixon, a manufacturer and community leader.

Near the village of Oliver is the smallest of Uniontown's three shopping districts.

Near the Allegheny Mountain village of Jumonville, the Battle of Jumonville Glen took place.

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 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 the village of St. Christoph, the two Austrian grenadier battalions sent by Kollowrat stumbled upon Richepanse's marching column, cutting his division in half.

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 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 site of modern Preveza in 290 BC King Pyrrhus of Epirus founded the town of Berenikea or Berenike, named after his mother-in-law Berenice I of Egypt., Today it is believed that Berenikea lies on the hills of the village of Michalitsi village, following the excavations of Sotirios Dakaris in 1965.

Near to the Pasarel dam, in the village of Dolni Pasarel, is located the " St. Peter and Pavel " monastery.

Near the small village Mithi, about 3 miles ( 5 km ) from Myrtos lies the Sarakina Gorge.

Near the base of the Rupal Face is a beautiful glacial lake called Latbo, above a seasonal shepherds ' village of the same name.

Near the village there is a graveyard with graves dating back to the Bronze Age.

Near Olympos, located in the neighbouring village of Çıralı and about 200 metres above sea level, the eternal flames called the Chimaera may be seen issuing from the ground.

Near this village there was once a royal hunting-box, where both King Edward I and King Edward II were known to have resided.

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 Guimarães, at the Battle of São Mamede ( 1128 ) he overcame the troops under his mother's second husband and ally Count Fernando Peres de Trava of Galicia, exiling her forever to a monastery in Galicia.

From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

She died on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at age 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust.

The couple moved immediately to Near Sawrey, residing at Castle Cottage, the renovated farm house on Castle Farm.

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 )

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

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 central commercial area often is portrayed, as in the map at right, to include parts of Near North Side and Near South Side, as well as the Loop.

The Near West Side holds the University of Illinois at Chicago and television production company of Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios.

The language of the Hattusa tablets was eventually deciphered by a Czech linguist, Bedřich Hrozný ( 1879 – 1952 ), who on 24 November 1915 announced his results in a lecture at the Near Eastern Society of Berlin.

* X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structures at the iron K-edge.

With the emergence of monarchy at the beginning of Iron Age II the king promoted his own family god, Yahweh, as the god of the kingdom, but beyond the royal court religion continued to be both polytheistic and family-centered, as it was also for other societies in the Ancient Near East.

But its loss of influence in Italy and Germany, and the consequent formation of the Dual State, had at length indicated the proper, and, indeed, the only field for its diplomacy in the future – the Near East, where the process of the crystallization of the Balkan peoples into nationalities was still incomplete.

The Near East, c. 1190, at the outset of the Third Crusade.

The organisation's Templar Houses, hundreds of which were dotted throughout Europe and the Near East, gave them a widespread presence at the local level.

Near Uhlandstraße U-Bahn station is the Kempinski hotel as well as the Theater am Kurfürstendamm at the site of a former exhibition hall of the Berlin Secession art association.

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.

In the ancient Near East, each city had a local patron deity, such as Shamash at Larsa or Sin at Ur.

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

However the idea of immortality which appears in the syncretistic religions of Near East did not exist in the Eleusinian mysteries at the very beginning.