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    Peștera cu Oase (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈpeʃtera ku ˈo̯ase], meaning "The Cave with Bones") is a system of 12 karstic galleries and chambers located...
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    Oasis (redirect from Oases)
    In ecology, an oasis (/oʊˈeɪsɪs/; pl.: oases /oʊˈeɪsiːz/) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment that sustains plant life and provides...
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    Gafsa Oases (Arabic: واحة قفصة, French: Oasis de Gafsa) are date palm oases at Gafsa in southwestern Tunisia, near the northern edge of the Sahara Desert...
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  • Licht-Oase (Light Oasis) was a New Age cult led by Arno Wollensak and Julie Ravell with around 40 members. It was also known as Ramtha. In the 1980s Arno...
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    to 1,560,000 sq ft). A section of the old sauna area was named the "Vital-Oase", and is now designated only for clothed use. The exclusive beauty section...
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    found in Central Asia and Europe, such as the Ust'-Ishim man, Bacho Kiro, or Oase 2, used inland routes, the ancestors of Eastern Asians and Oceanians used...
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    (formerly seven) oases offer food and gasoline vendors and are found in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, DeKalb, and Belvidere. Although the oases date back to...
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  • Look up OASIS, Oasis, or oasis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An oasis is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert. Oasis, OASIS, or The Oasis may...
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    that Indo-Europeans, or certainly Europoid physical types, inhabited the oases of the Tarim basin and even parts of Mongolia in ancient times. In the Tarim...
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    Quarter) of Saudi Arabia. The desert area of Abu Dhabi includes two important oases with adequate underground water for permanent settlements and cultivation...
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    There is evidence of rock carvings along the Nile terraces and in desert oases. In the 10th millennium BCE, a culture of hunter-gatherers and fishers was...
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    March 2019. https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Downloads/531d957fc79eb3e80500003f/OASE%2092%20-%2042%20Reconstructing%20Convention.pdf "Gilles Perraudin : Constructing...
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    a narrow scapular glenoid fossa. The early modern human Oase 1 mandible from Peștera cu Oase (Romania) of 34,000–36,000 14C years BP presents a mosaic...
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    of desert in central Algeria that contains a string of small oases. In the past, the oases were important for caravans crossing the Sahara. Tuat lies to...
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    fan palm) is native to the state, mainly growing in the Colorado Desert oases. Other common plants that have been introduced to the state include the...
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    man, who is more closely related to modern Asians and Native Americans; Oase 1 (no shared ancestry with later Eurasians); Fumane 2, c. 40,000 BP. Prüfer...
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    however, and where this water surfaces, oases form (e.g. Al-Hasa and Qatif, two of the world's largest oases) and permit agriculture, especially palm...
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    human-Neanderthal hybrids. A 37,000- to 42,000-year-old human jawbone found in Romania's Oase cave contains traces of Neanderthal ancestry from only four to six generations...
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    The Cairo Electric Railways & Heliopolis Oases Company (Arabic: شركة سكك حديد مصر الكهربائية و واحات عين شمس) was formed in Cairo, Egypt in 1906 to develop...
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    Dakhla Oasis (category Oases of Egypt)
    Waḥat el Daḵla, pronounced [elwæ'ħæ:t edˈdæ:xlæ], "the inner oases"), is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert. Dakhla Oasis lies in the New Valley...
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    were established along the northern coastline and around various inland oases. Production costs often surpassed the value of the produce and thus Libyan...
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    Palestine (West Bank) to the west. The east is an arid plateau irrigated by oases and seasonal water streams. Major cities are overwhelmingly located on the...
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    metres (4,265 feet) in some places. Dubai has no natural river bodies or oases; however, Dubai does have a natural inlet, Dubai Creek, which has been dredged...
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    languages) were spoken in southern Arabia at this time. To the north, in the oases of northern Hejaz, Dadanitic and Taymanitic held some prestige as inscriptional...
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    mainly—if not exclusively—lives and breathes in Israel.... Although there are oases of Hebrew in certain schools, it has not become the Jewish lingua franca...
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    The coastal deserts produce little more than cacti, apart from hilly fog oases and river valleys that contain unique plant life. The Highlands above the...
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    Pedra Furada Pego do Diabo Salemas Romania Coliboaia Cuciulat Muierilor Oase Russia Akhshtyrskaya Chertovy Vorota Denisova Ignatievka Shulgan-Tash Mezmaiskaya...
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  • are a Berber ethnic group of about 25,000 native to Egypt's Siwa and Qara oases. They speak the Siwa language, a Berber language, spoken by about 20,000...
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    (Medina) attended, including two women, representing all the converts of the oases. Muhammad asked them to protect him as they would protect their wives and...
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    Depression), sand dunes (part of the Great Sand Sea), as well as Wadi Hennis and oases at Ain El Maqfi and Ain El Wadi. White Desert National Park covers an area...
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