The union of the fertility goddess with the beast which represents the masculine fertility, is an old Near Eastern myth, which appears in many primitive agricultural societies.

Near the old Forbes Field where he began his pro career the city of Pittsburgh has renamed a street in his honor.

Near the castle are the ruins of the fourteenth-century palace of the grand jury and the old cathedral ( 1603 ) probably built on a design by architect Camillo Camillians.

It is believed to be about 5, 600 years old, and to have arrived with the Neolithic expansion from the Near East.

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 ).

Near his lands was a modest hut which had been inhabited, after three triumphs, by its owner Manius Curius Dentatus, whose military feats and rigidly simple character were fresh in the memory of the old, and were often talked of with admiration in the neighborhood.

* Near Wamsutter, Wyoming, on the Continental Divide along old U. S. 30, a monument was erected in 1938 to Henry B. Joy, the first president of the LHA, with an inscription describing Joy as one " who saw realized the dream of a continuous improved highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

" Near the old capital of Hariharalaya, Yasovarman constructed a new city, called Yasodharapura.

Near Tower Bridge old warehouses have been converted to new mixed uses at Butler's Wharf and Hay's Wharf.

Near the Dog and Duck on Hoppers Road are some old terraced houses built around 1770.

* Fossils From Near Beatty, Nevada Roughly 475 million-year old invertebrate fossils from the world-famous Beatty Mudmound, in the vicinity of Beatty, Nevada

Near the end, in the land of Oobladee, she is eventually magically transformed into a frail, old woman with a cane, who explains the reasons for which she was left to explore much darker horizons, sexually.

Near Rochefort are the famous red marble quarries of St Remy, and the old Trappist abbey of that name is now a Trappist seminary famous for brewing dark and sweet beers, especially the extremely popular Rochefort 10, whose deep dark-brown color and rich, fruity palate inspire a cult following.

Near the visible promontory of Mount Nemo that rises some 200 m ( 650 ft ) above the lake level, a " vertical forest " of white cedar clinging to the Escarpment face includes many small trees that are more than a thousand years old.

Near the Uhrturm there is a café with views over the old town.

Near the old fortress town of Monterrey, General Pedro de Ampudia received orders from Antonio López de Santa Anna to retreat further to the city of Saltillo, where Ampudia was to establish a defensive line.

* Ground Network, the old name for Near Earth Network, a network of NASA ground stations to support spaceflight

Near the groove are several depressions, best marked in the skulls of old persons, for the arachnoid granulations ( Pacchionian bodies ).

Near the old lodge location was also located Lassen Ski Area, which ceased operation in 1992 ; all infrastructure has been removed.

Near to the present West Street stood the old Yew Tree Farm, prior to the erection of the present Jubilee Terrace.

Near Cape Reinga on the mainland, sometimes translated as the underworld, is a gnarled Pōhutukawa tree reputed to be more than 800 years old.

Near to the old Crown Fort stood the ancient parish church of St. Mary ( a dependency of Dryburgh Abbey ).

Near to the ferry port is the old Ferryman's House ( no longer inhabited ).

Near the old village of Iztacalco is Eje 3 Oriente and Calzada de la Viga.

Near the Danish straits the salinity is close to that of the Kattegat, but still not fully oceanic, because the saltiest water that passes the straits is still already mixed with considerable amounts of outflow water.

The Gerads and the Bari Sultans built impressive palaces, castles and fortresses and had close relations with many different empires in the Near East.

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker ( NEAR Shoemaker ), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.

Near the end of its mission, the Phoenix Lander detected more thin clouds close to the north pole of Mars.

Near the film's close, Alfie decides to change his non-committal ways and settle down, albeit with the rich Ruby.

Intermittent esotropias, again as the name implies, are not always present: They may be visible when looking at close objects but not when looking at distant ones ( Near Esotropia ) or, rarely, when looking at distant objects but not at close ones ( Distance Esotropia ).

Near the end of World War II, in 1944, the first of Gumbinnen's 24, 000 residents began to flee from the advancing Red Army, which was drawing close.

Near the close of Memling's career he was increasingly supported by his workshop.

Near the place of the Swedish town Nyen, close to the Neva river's estuary at the Gulf of Finland, the new Russian capital Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703.

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.

Professor Amélie Kuhrt, head of Ancient Near Eastern History at University College, London, in one of the standard reference works of the discipline, notes that " Many scholars feel sympathetic to the critique of weaknesses in the existing chronological framework [...], but most archaeologists and ancient historians are not at present convinced that the radical redatings proposed stand up to close examination.

Near the poles, they are close to being logarithmic spirals ( on a stereographic projection they are exactly, see below ), so they wind round each pole an infinite number of times but reach the pole in a finite distance.

In 2008, the IUCN classified Asian golden cats as Near Threatened, stating that the species comes close to qualifying as Vulnerable due to hunting pressure and habitat loss, since Southeast Asian forests are undergoing the world's fastest regional deforestation rates.

Near the close of his discourse John Chrysostom refers to the erection of the church dedicated to Babylas, and to the zeal of the Bishop Meletius in promoting it, who actually took part in the work with his own hands.

This causes the species to be put on the Near Threatened list, meaning it is close to being a threatened species.

Near the close of his embassy, Rochford was an eyewitness to the Madrid Riots of 1766.

Near field communication ( NFC ) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity, usually no more than a few centimetres.

Near the interchange with Interstate 280, SR 85 runs close to the headquarters of Apple Computer and next to De Anza College as well as the titled West Valley College, both community colleges in the area.

Broadly, the Near Umbra ( the Umbra relatively close to Earth ) can be divided into four subtypes, along lines roughly defined by the four videres:

Non-observational work focuses on computations of close approaches of asteroids with the Earth ( linked at Near Earth Object Program at Jet Propulsion Laboratory ) and orbit identifications of asteroids and comets.

* Near the junction of Fenham Carr Lane and Wyresdale Road one mile south east of the City of Lancaster and close to the Ashton Memorial.

The First Amendment and various court decisions ( e. g. Near v. Minnesota ) give very broad rights to anyone to publish a newspaper or other publication, and severely restrict the government in any effort to close down or censor a private publication.

Near the close of the 19th century, a medical doctor by the name of Gustav Zander developed a complete set of machines similar to Nautilus and also a workout method remarkably close to that promoted by Arthur Jones in the early 1970s.