The Israeli settlement created in the 1970s at Sharm el-Sheikh in Sinai was called Ofira ( אופירה ), Hebrew for " Towards Ophir "-since its location on the Red Sea was on the route supposedly traversed by King Solomon's ships en route to Ophir.

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Towards the foot of the Chine, near to Sea Road, a chalybeate spring was discovered, no doubt fed by the water draining into the chine.

He stops by a stream and wishes he was as free as the water (" Out Towards a Sea ").

He brought home the yellow fever along with the money, and by the stream he succumbs to it and dies (" Out Towards a Sea ( Reprise )").

*" Ut mot ett hav " ( Out Towards A Sea )

*" Ut mot ett hav ( repris )" ( Out Towards A Sea ( Reprise ))

Towards the east is a dim white sand strip and Thuan An Estuary in the distance along the deep blue Eastern Sea.

Towards the end of the period, numerous examples of extremely fine metalwork begin to be found deposited in rivers, presumably for ritual reasons and perhaps reflecting a progressive shift of emphasis away from the sky and back to the earth, as a rising population increasingly put the land under greater pressure.

Towards the end of the era, the continents gathered together into a supercontinent called Pangaea, which included most of the Earth's land area.

Towards the north, the land gradually rises and becomes more hilly.

Towards the end of the month, Churchill offered Trenchard a job that would have seen him acting as a general officer commanding all British land, air and sea forces at home should an invasion occur.

Towards the end of 1917 there were over 250, 000-260, 000 women working as farm labourers, with 20, 000 in the land army itself.

Towards the end of the Mandate period they also cultivated fruits, such as figs and grapes, on all their land expect to the west.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century several parcels of land were held by the parish as charitable lands namely ; Town land meadow, Town Land close, the Barn Close ( near Hill Top ), the Old Close and part of Breach Field.

Towards the end of the century the city of Munich wished to construct a tram route through the garden north of the Chinese Tower, currently a road used only by buses ; but it was opposed by the Bavarian government, which owns the land, and the Bayerische Verwaltungsgerichtshof rejected the plan.

Towards a land reform agenda for a Scots parliament.

Towards the downtown area and south west owns land flat and undulating valley covered with vast grassland good for livestock.

Towards the end of the 19th century, as Arbroath's fishing industry died, the Town Council offered the fisherfolk from Auchmithie land in an area of the town known as the fit o ' the toon.

Towards the northern border of the city, the density of development decreases, leaving large areas of undeveloped land around Midrand.

Towards the end of the 19th century, this was the only undeveloped portion of land between St George's Hall and the buildings in William Brown Street.

Towards the end of the 18th century the land around Hook had been acquired by the Hornby family to form the Hook Estate This new estate was bordered to the north by the existing Warsash House estate.

Towards the end of November, Evangeline left Britain for her home in up-state New York, and spent the remaining years of her life in the land which she had served for so very many years.

Towards the end of that year, a meeting of settlers at King George Sound passed a motion, signed by sixteen persons, that convict labour was needed for land clearing and road works, but this was met with little support in other parts of the colony.

Towards the end of 54, Agrippina would order the murder of Silanus ' eldest brother Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus without Nero's knowledge, so that he would not seek revenge against her over his brother's death.

Towards the early 1990s, the BBS industry became so popular that it spawned three monthly magazines, Boardwatch, BBS Magazine, and in Asia and Australia, Chips ' n Bits Magazine which devoted extensive coverage of the software and technology innovations and people behind them, and listings to US and worldwide BBSes.

Towards the end of its life there were so few passengers that diesel railcars were sometimes used.

'" Towards the end of the same essay, Vertov mentions an upcoming project which seems likely to be Man with the Movie Camera, calling it an " experimental film " made without a scenario ; just three paragraphs above, Vertov mentions a scene from " Kino Pravda " which should be quite familiar to viewers of Man with the Movie Camera: the peasant works, and so does the urban woman, and so too, the woman film editor selecting the negative ...."

Towards the end of his time in the army, Marrow learned from his commanding officer that he could receive an honorable discharge because he was a single father, so he left four months ahead of schedule.

Towards the end of 2010, STP announced they were rescheduling several U. S. tour dates so that the band could take a " short break.

Towards the end of his life, he became so sick that doctors told him he could eventually end up without any feeling in the lower parts of his body, so he had an emergency heart surgery in February 1988, during which he died.

Towards the end of the Ages of Melkor's captivity, Melian counselled Thingol that the peace of his realm would not long endure and so with the aid of the Dwarves of Belegost he delved there the wondrous fortress called Menegroth, the Thousand Caves.

Towards the end of the war, the Dornier Do 335 Pfeil could have been an ideal twin-engined Zerstörer fighter design for the Luftwaffe due to its center-line-thrust format, which placed its fuselage-mounted twin engines ' propellers on opposing ends of the fuselage, and potentially allowed much better maneuverability, and did allow dramatically higher speeds ( just over 750 km / h or 465 mph ), than any other twin-piston-engined aircraft of its era, but like so many other advanced German aircraft designs that were actually produced by Germany late in the war, the Do 335 never had the chance to be produced in quantity.

Towards the evening we bade them adieu and took horse, being resolved that, instead of the race which fails us, we would go to Epsom When we come there we could hear of no lodging, the town so full, but which was better, I went towards Ashsted, and there we got a lodging in a little hole we could not stand upright in While supper was getting I walked up and down behind my cosen Pepys's house that was, which I find comes little short of what I took it to be when I was a little boy.

Towards 1980, the community's development towards tourism and carefully controlled, but in the next five years, growth was so significant that a number of new tourist businesses were established.

Towards the end of the 1960s it became increasingly clear that rail closures were not producing the promised savings or bringing the rail system out of deficit and were unlikely ever to do so.

Simone Weil who fought for the French resistance ( the Maquis ) argued in her final book The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind that for society to become more just and protective of liberty, obligations should take precedence over rights in moral and political philosophy and a spiritual awakening should occur in the conscience of most citizens, so that social obligations are viewed as fundamentally having a transcendent origin and a beneficent impact on human character when fulfilled.

As boombox enthusiast Lyle Owerko puts it, “ Towards the end of any culture, you have the second or third generation that steps into the culture, which is so far from the origination, it's the impression of what's real, but it's not the full definition of what's real.

Towards the end of the Old Kingdom the positions of the nomarchs had become hereditary, so families often held onto the position of power in their respective provinces.

Towards her, his life so late, and sole delight,

Towards the close of the Napoleonic Wars, three elderly 74-gun ships were razeed into 58-gun fourth rates ( not losing a complete deck, so remaining a two-decker, but having the quarterdeck removed ).

Towards this goal he completed the translation of 50 Upanishads from its original Sanskrit into Persian in 1657 so it could be read by Muslim scholars.

Towards the end of the war, the tunnels were so heavily bombed that some portions actually caved in and other sections were exposed.

Towards the end of the film, Kholin and Galtsev ferry Ivan across the Dnepr so that he can attempt a dangerous reconnaissance over the front line.

Towards the end of the war, the German embassy was unable to pay, so the internees had to work on local farms.

Towards the end of the book, in reference to his wife ’ s death he says: “ It has so many ways to hurt me that I discover them only one by one ”.