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.

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

Hill Top, Near Sawrey – Potter's former home, now owned by the National Trust and preserved as it was when she lived and wrote her stories there.

Near the end of her life, she lived in a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped found years earlier.

Near to the town are Anne Hathaway's Cottage at Shottery, the home of Shakespeare's wife's family prior to her marriage, and Mary Arden's House ( Palmer's Farm ), the family home of his mother.

Near his sixteenth birthday, David Crockett returned home.

Near the town is the home of world show jumping champion Ian Millar and Millar Brooke Farm where his great horse Big Ben ( 1976 – 1999 ) is buried.

Near the end of the game, Mario recounts his tale to Luigi, who had remained at home while Mario went on the adventure.

Near this is Brixton, home to Lambeth Town Hall and to the Brixton Murals, although one of these is actually in Stockwell ( see picture below ).

Near the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhejiang was home to the minor warlords Yan Baihu and Wang Lang.

Near the arena is Dickey-Stephens Park, the new home of the Arkansas Travelers minor league baseball team.

Near the town's center is the boyhood home of Samuel Wilson, the meat-supplier who is believed to have inspired the Uncle Sam character.

Near the opposite corner, mounted high on the wall, is a red stadium chair denoting the precise landing spot ( including elevation ) of Harmon Killebrew's home run, a blast to the upper deck in deep left-center field on June 3, 1967.

Near the Rugrats Reptarmobiles is the site of home plate for Metropolitan Stadium, which was previously located on the site of the Mall.

Near a home that Wister built near La Mesa, California, but never occupied due to his wife's death, is a street called " Wister Drive.

The Cohen's original home in Berkeley, which they return to in " The End's Not Near, It's Here ", was shot in South Pasadena.

Near the end of the 19th century, modern conservatories opened in many cities, and New York became the home of the Metropolitan Opera House in 1882 and Carnegie Hall in 1891, the latter's opening being marked by an appearance by the famed Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Near the Alameda were the homes of the Marquis of Guardiola, of the Borda family and the house of the Marquis of Prado Alegre as well as the home of the Counts of the Valley of Orizaba who covered the entire façade with talavera tiles from Puebla.

Their official residence today is the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, home also to the Itazipco ( No Bows ), the Minneconjou ( People Who Live Near Water ) and Oohenumpa ( Two Kettle ), all bands of the Lakota.

Near death and in severe pain in a hospital, he opted to return home and end his life on his own terms.

Near the birth of her youngest child Princess Louise in 1809, Louise wrote to her father, " Gladly ... the calamities which have befallen us have not forced their way into our wedded and home life, rather have strengthened the same, and made it even more precious to us.

Near the beginning of the 2009 – 10 season, Kovalchuk scored the 300th and 301st goal of his NHL career in a 4 – 2 win during the St. Louis Blues ' home opener on October 8, 2009.

The Avenue extends south into Near South Side, Chicago and beyond – past what was once the notorious Levee District, the graceful homes of the Prairie Avenue District, the historic Second Presbyterian Church, the former home of the legendary Chess Records at 2120 South Michigan and the site where the Lexington Hotel, a hideout of Al Capone once stood.