Portrait of Jack ( John ) Taylor, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, National League, warming up with other players at home plate at West Side Grounds located between West Polk Street, South Wolcott Avenue ( formerly Lincoln Street ), West Taylor Street, and South Wood Street, in the Near West Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.

The highest mountains of the West Indies are in this range: Pico Duarte, 3, 098 m, and others above 3, 000 m. Near the center of the island, this range turns southward and is called Sierra de Ocoa, finishing near the city of Azua de Compostela, on the Caribbean coast.

Near the confluence of the Illinois with the La Moine River, it turns south, flowing roughly parallel to the Mississippi across southwestern Illinois.

Near Malta, it turns north, then southeast, flowing past Glasgow and joining the Missouri in Valley County, Montana, downstream from Fort Peck Dam.

Near the eastern end of Townsend, SR73 turns southeast from US-321 and heads straight into the national park.

Near Fremont the Platte turns sharply and flows south-southeast about to about Waterloo, Nebraska -- located about west of Omaha.

Near Waterloo the Platte turns even more and heads almost due south for about.

Near Mogadishu, it turns sharply southwest, where it follows the coast.

Near Glen, Montana it turns northeast and joins the Beaverhead River near Twin Bridges to form the Jefferson.

Near the state line with Montana, it turns abruptly southeast and flows in western South Dakota, past Belle Fourche and around the north side of the Black Hills.

Near Chatham it turns north, forming the boundary between Morris and Essex counties.

Near White Haven and Middleburg it turns south, following a zigzag whitewater course through Lehigh Gorge State Park to Jim Thorpe, then southeast, past Lehighton.

Near Shoppingtown Mall, NY 5 turns east onto Genesee Street to begin an overlap with NY 92.

Near Wren, it turns north, crosses under Route 20 again, turns east, receives Gellatly Creek and La Bare Creek, both from the left, and passes under Oregon Route 223 at about from the mouth.

Near Ottoville in western Putnam County it turns north-northwest for its lower and joins the Auglaize from the south near Melrose in eastern Paulding County.

Near the end of the game, his Whip of Alchemy turns into the more destructive Vampire Killer.

Near Mount Jefferson it turns sharply west, descending through a canyon past Idanha and Detroit to Niagara County Park where the valley begins to widen and some agriculture use begins.

Near a junction with Vicksburg Road in Vicksburg, the railroad turns away from SR 72 as the roadway heads southeast.

Near Rainbow Campground the river turns north and is paralleled by U. S. Route 101.

Near Bonanza, the river turns west and passes through Olene Gap, about east of Klamath Falls.

Near its confluence with the South Fork it then turns west and rushes through a gorge in which it drops over the North Fork Falls, a powerful plunge at least high.

Near Seaside it turns north and flows parallel to the coast, approximately inland.

Near White River, the highway enters Algoma District and turns southward.

Near the Woodside Avenue exit, SR 67 turns to the northeast, paralleling the San Diego River and entering the unincorporated area of Eucalyptus Hills.

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

Near the west end of the lake it receives its first important tributary, the Lütschine.

Near the west end of Lake Thun, the river receives the waters of the Kander, which has just been joined by the Simme.

Jordan is situated geographically in Southwest Asia, south of Syria, west of Iraq northwest of Saudi Arabia and east of Israel and the West Bank ; politically, the area has also been referred to in the West as the Middle or Near East.

Near its southern end, the Lebanon Mountains branch off to the west to form the Shuf Mountains.

Ukraine's various highland regions include the Volyn-Podillia Upland and the Near-Dnipro Upland ( on the right bank of Dnipro River ) in the west, the south-western spurs of the Central Russian Uplands upon which runs the border with Russia in the east, and the Donets Ridge and the Near Azov Upland near the Sea of Azov.

* July 15 – Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike leads an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine to explore the west.

The second half of the millennium is characterized as the Early Middle Ages in Europe, and marked by the Viking expansion in the west, the rise of the Byzantine Empire in the east, and by the Islamic conquests throughout the Near East, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula, culminating in the Islamic Golden Age ( 700 – 1200 AD ).

Near the mountainous Algerian border in the west rises Tunisia's highest point, Jebel ech Chambi at 1544 meters.

Near Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, the main stream continued west until it flowed into River Oude Maas near Heerjansdam.

Near Antwerp, the largest city on its banks, the Scheldt flows west into the Netherlands towards the North Sea.

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

Terrell Hills is bordered on west by Alamo Heights, on the east by Fort Sam Houston, on the north by Uptown San Antonio, and on the south by San Antonio's Near East Side.

Near the center of Seymour, Chapman Highway forms a four-way intersection with U. S. Route 411, which approaches from Maryville to the west, and Boyds Creek Highway ( State Route 338 ), which approaches from Boyds Creek to the east.

Near Esbjerg on the west coast stands Svend Wiig Hansen's enormous sculpture of four chalky white figures gazing out at the sea.

Near to Westfield — approximately 15 miles west of Springfield — numerous outdoor opportunities are available, such as alpine skiing at Blandford Ski Area and the United States's oldest white-water rafting races on the 78. 1 mile Westfield River, the longest Connecticut River tributary in Massachusetts.

Near the town centre is Maumbury Rings, an ancient British henge earthwork converted by the Romans for use as an amphitheatre, and to the north west is Poundbury Hill, another pre-Roman fortification.

Near the end of the twelfth century, the Spanish Muslim astronomer al-Bitrūjī ( Alpetragius ) sought to explain the complex motions of the planets without Ptolemy's epicycles and eccentrics, using an Aristotelian framework of purely concentric spheres that moved with differing speeds from east to west.

Near Bradford Abbas it crossed over the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth line of the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) on a bridge, then ran alongside it and the Yeovil Branch Line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway ( B & ER ) to reach that company ’ s terminus at, on the west side of Yeovil.

Near Garner, US 69 briefly heads west concurrent with US 18, but soons splits off from it and heads north.

Near 3 Mile Road, I-96 / M-37 runs west again, continuing across the Grand River and meeting the US Highway 131 ( US 131 ) freeway.

Near the small town of Milner the Elk River joins the Yampa which continues west in the plateau region along the north side of the Williams Fork Mountains, past the town of Craig.

Near the west front is a lofty arch, beneath which is an altar-tomb of grey marble, with a recumbent leaden figure, now much mutilated, of Lady Susanna Newenham, who died in 1754.