The life-size so-called " Adonis " found in 1780 on the site of a villa suburbana near the Via Labicana in the Roman suburb of Centocelle is identified as an Apollo by modern scholars.

Adobe bricks near a construction site in Milyanfan, Kyrgyzstan

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

* 1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.

It rises at about 67 ° N latitude and 173 ° E longitude near the headwaters of the Maly Anyuy River, flows southwest receiving the waters of the Yablon and Eropol Rivers, turns east and passes Markvovo and the old site of Anadyrsk, turns north and east and receives the Mayn River from the south, thereby encircling the Lebediny Zakaznik, turns northeast to receive the Belaya River ( Chukotka ) from the north, turns southeast past the Ust-Tanyurer Zakaznik and receives the Tanyurer River from the north.

* Ampère Museum-a French-language site from the museum in Poleymieux-au-Mont-d ' or, near Lyon, France

The ruins have been excavated at a site near the village of Kanakia of Salamis, a few miles off the coast of Athens.

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

A map of Cyprus in the later Bronze Age ( such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter in Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum ) shows more than 25 settlements in and about the Mesaorea district alone, of which one, that at Enkomi, near the site of Salamis, has yielded the richest Aegean treasure in precious metal found outside Mycenae.

With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's ( Trecynon ) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery, and at one time had over 50 Nonconformist chapels.

On 24 April 1826 over 1, 000 men and women, many armed, gathered at Whinney Hill in Clayton-le-Moors to listen to a speaker from where they marched on Sykes ’ s Mill at Higher Grange Lane, near the site of the modern police station and Magistrate ’ s Courts, and smashed over 60 looms.

However, times change, and in 2007, the New York Times reported that " the Bronx neighborhoods near the site of Sherman's accident are now dotted with townhouses and apartments.

Bridges employing only compression are relatively inefficient structurally, but may be highly cost efficient where suitable materials are available near the site and the cost of labor is low.

The narrow fringing reef surrounding the island can be a maritime hazard, so there is a day beacon near the old village site.

Signpost near the Clear Lake crash site

Excavations near the site of a present day church and monastery, have revealed an early church with two empty tombs, believe to be that of St. Barnabas and Anthemios.

The French, however, realised Bayonne's strategic site near the Spanish border and in 1578 dug a canal to again redirect the river through the city.

In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great commissioned Dinocrates of Rhodes to lay out his new city of Alexandria, the grandest example of idealized urban planning of the ancient Mediterranean world, where the city's regularity was facilitated by its level site near a mouth of the Nile.

: Strategic location 500 km from west coast of Africa near major north-south sea routes ; important communications station ; important sea and air refueling site.

There is evidence of a mass kill of bony fishes at a fossil site immediately above the K – T boundary layer on Seymour Island near Antarctica, apparently precipitated by the K – Pg extinction event.

Charlton Athletic were formed on 9 June 1905 by a group of 15-to 17-year-old boys in an area of Charlton which is no longer residential, near to the present-day site of the Thames Barrier.

About an hour after fragment K entered Jupiter, observers recorded auroral emission near the impact region, as well as at the antipode of the impact site with respect to Jupiter's strong magnetic field.

The site, located near the modern town of Honaz in Turkey, has never been excavated.

This town fell into decay ( possibly due to an earthquake ) and the Byzantine town of Chonæ occupied a site near its ruins.

* October 1: an Israeli soldier of Druze Arab heritage killed while guarding a Jewish sacred site in Nablus.

After seven attempts and six removals from the site by the Israel Defense Forces, an agreement was reached according to which the Israeli government allowed 25 families to settle in the Kadum army camp southwest of Nablus / Shechem.

During British rule, Nablus emerged as a site of local resistance and the Old City quarter of Qaryun was demolished by the British during the 1936 – 1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.

Traditionally associated with Nablus, it is now identified with the site of Tell Balatah in Balata al-Balad in the West Bank.

The site of Shechem in patristic sources is almost invariably identified with or located close to the town of Nablus / Flavia Neapolis.

" If the phrase does tell of a bus bombing, why not take it to indicate that it would be in Nablus, the site of ancient Shechem?

Archeological evidence shows that in the biblical period, the site encompassed small agricultural villages along routes north from Jerusalem to Nablus and the Galilee.

During this period, Tubas became the site of clashes between the ' Abd al-Hadi and Touqan clans of Nablus and suffered incursions by Bedouins from areas east of the city.

The Byzantine church was definitely in ruins by the time the Crusaders occupied Nablus in August 1099 ; early 12th century accounts by pilgrims to the site speak of the well without mentioning a church.

A new waterfront site for the bureau is now being built at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to provide the most modern marine testing facilities as a further tool to keep the sport safe.

At the cemetery in what is now the district of Pullach stood a memorial stone which was mentioned as recently as 1967, but which is no longer at the site.

A second temple has also been located at the archaeological site of Metropolis in what is now Western Turkey.

Ælfheah refused to allow a ransom to be paid for his freedom, and as a result was killed on 19 April 1012 at Greenwich ( then in Kent, now part of London ), reputedly on the site of St Alfege's Church.

The most representative site explored up to now is Knossos ( see Crete ) which has yielded not only the most various but the most continuous evidence from the Neolithic age to the twilight of classical civilization.

The harbour lies to the east of the foundation site at the original citadel on a hill overlooking a peninsula protecting the harbor on the south, where now are located the Quai de la Citadelle and the Jettée de la Citadelle.

The Bonapartes at the time had a modest four-story home in town ( now a museum known as Casa Buonaparte ) and a rarely used country home in the hills north of the city ( now site of the Arboretum des Milelli ).

The site now lies in the Xanthi regional unit of modern Greece.

A memorial plaque for the deceased has now been placed at the site.

* 1936: The site of Manseibashi Station was closed ( later the Transportation Museum — now closed ).

In 2002, the building was demolished and its former site is now a parking lot.

During the American Civil War, it was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp which is now Andersonville National Historic Site.

During the 1st century AD, the Army then chose a site to the north of the emerging town in what is now the section of Bonn-Castell to build a large military installation dubbed Castra Bonnensis, i. e., literally, " Fort Bonn ".

A large portion of the site is now controlled by the Bletchley Park Trust.

Most historians favour a site in the West Midlands, somewhere along the Roman road now known as Watling Street.

The Trustees rejected Buckingham House, on the site now occupied by Buckingham Palace, on the grounds of cost and the unsuitability of its location.

Roughtor was the site of a medieval chapel of St Michael and is now designated as a memorial to the 43rd Wessex Division of the British Army.

The murder site now has a monument erected from public money and the grave is at Davidstow churchyard.

The nuclear reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, and the Hanford site is now the focus of the world's largest environmental cleanup, managed by the Department of Energy under the oversight of the Washington Department of Ecology and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Over the years, the Nile gradually shifted westward, providing the site between the eastern edge of the river and the Mokattam highlands on which the city now stands.

It still stands at the original site, within the grounds of what is now the Psychiatric Hospital and is open to the public.

Beforehand various rumours arose including plans to return to ground-sharing with QPR in a new 40, 000 seater White City stadium, although these now appear firmly on hold with the construction of the Westfield shopping centre on the proposed site.

The first match at this site, now known as the club's current ground The Valley, was in September 1919.