This force,led by General Zachary Taylor, had camped near the town of Corpus Christi at the mouth of the Nueces River.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Why does he go against the traditional Ancient Near Eastern practice of primogeniture, inheritance by the first born?

为什么他要违背传统古代近东的惯例,也就是长子继承制，由第一个儿子继承？

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And 72 hours by train he found himself on a huge cotton plantation, near Pickensville, Alabama, on the in west central Alabama, on the Mississippi border, at 14-years-old.

在搭乘了七十二小时的火车后,他发现自己身处亚拉巴马的皮肯斯维尔附近,一个巨大的棉花种植园中,在亚拉巴马西部的中心,密西西比的边界,那年他仅仅十四岁

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She was also influenced by the wooded hills near her home as well as by local Native American burial hills.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The body lay near the window, where the animal had left it when frightened away by the light and sound of the rifle.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

For example, you hear the expression, ace in the hole, used by many people who would never think of going near a poker table.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

This force, led by General Joe Johnston, was in the Shenandoah Valley near Harpers Ferry,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

The Andromeda Galaxy is big enough and near enough to be seen by the unaided eye in the star group Andromeda on a dark night.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Later,Amelia's radio signals were received by a United States Coast Guard ship near the island.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Israel's new anti-rocket system, called the Iron Dome, has passed final tests and will be deployed near the country's borders by November.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

The residents left their homes near the country's border with Guinea-Bissau after recent increases in attacks by Senegalese rebels in the area.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

She grew up near Denver,Colorado, listening to recordings by John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

and asked "What did they do?" In the northern city Mosul, a suicide bomber exploded a car near a checkpoint guarded by national and Kurdish forces.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

Environmental activists say plans by Laos to build a dam in the Don Sahong area near the Cambodian border could doom the nearly extinct Irrawaddy dolphin.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

Six South Koreans were killed when the North opened the gates to a dam near the border, flooding the banks of a river shared by both sides.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

O'Hanlon believes the Nobel Committee was blinded by the president's near-pop star status in some countries, and that the young president has no real achievements that merit such an award.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

The U.S.envoy said he will return to the region in the near future to try to build on momentum generated by the Israeli gesture toward a resumption of negotiations with the Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Mitchell's scheduled visit to Damascus was preceded by two trips there since March by Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman and White House National Security Council Middle East expert Daniel Shapiro.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

But we're not going to wait forever,". Kelly said preparations have been made for a visit Sunday by IAEA inspectors to the partially-underground enrichment facility near the city of Qom that Iran recently acknowledged it has been secretly building.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

In initial reports, senior Somali military and police officials said a foreigner approached government soldiers near the Villa Somalia presidential palace in Mogadishu early Wednesday, identifying himself as one of the French men abducted by gunmen at the Sahafi Hotel last month.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26