It was near here that we found our private paradise.
It was near here that Kierkegaard spent his final days.
"The house on Fitzroy Road where she died is near here, isn't it?" I said.
"His district is near here, and he took an interest," Mr. Gates said.
"My daughter's preschool is near here, so we always come and sit and watch them practice," Olson said.
It was near here Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote in the poem Le Morte d'Arthur about the sword Excalibur being thrown.
On the morning of the attacks, he said, he was near here in the middle of a C.I.A. job interview.
It is no longer possible, for instance, to drive directly from Maputo, the capital, to Xai-Xai, which is near here.
It was near here that Cuba – with the help of technicians from the Soviet Union – attempted to build a nuclear reactor to ease energy shortages and power industrial development.
It was near here that a riot started Aug. 6, in response to the fatal shooting of a young local man, Mark Duggan, by the police, under heavily contested circumstances, and to the police's subsequent dealings with his family.
The location is fitting: it was near here, in August 1989, that Hungarian border guards allowed fleeing East Germans to break through the border into Austria, thus setting in motion a chain of events that rapidly brought down communism across eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.Along with big-name headliners such as Moby and the Ting Tings, the festival will also feature Roma music.
