A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation...
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Gulf War (redirect from Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm)
key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, which began with...
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The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching...
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Sahara (redirect from Sahara desert)
/səˈhærə/) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world...
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The Taklamakan Desert (/ˌtækləməˈkæn/ TAK-lə-mə-KAN) is a desert in northwest China's Xinjiang region. Located inside the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang...
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The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation...
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The Mojave Desert (/moʊˈhɑːvi, mə-/ ; Mohave: Hayikwiir Mat'aar; Spanish: Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada...
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In the Desert In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it...
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Desert fox may refer to: Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda), the world's smallest canid White-footed fox (Vulpes vulpes pusilla), also known as the desert fox...
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The Desert Eagle or simply Deagle is a single-action, gas-operated, semi-automatic pistol capable of chambering the .50 Action Express, the largest centerfire...
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The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of...
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Desert rock may refer to Palm Desert Scene, a Californian music culture that has been described as "desert rock" North African and Saharan desert blues...
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The Gobi Desert (Mongolian: Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, /ˈɡoʊbi/; Chinese: 戈壁; pinyin: gēbì) is a large, cold desert and grassland region located in northern China and...
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Look up desert rose in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Desert rose may refer to: Adenium, a genus of flowering plants in tropical Africa and Arabia Rosa...
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Look up desert rat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Desert Rat or desert rat or its plural may refer to: Gerbils (Gerbillinae) of the deserts of Africa...
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Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad is an autobiographical book written by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller, published in 1998 about...
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The Sonoran Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert and ecoregion in North America that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora,...
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The Arabian Desert (Arabic: ٱلصَّحْرَاء ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة) is a vast desert wilderness in West Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula with...
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The Nafud desert or simply The Nafud (Arabic: صحراء النفود, romanized: ṣahrā' an-nafūd) is a desert in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula at 28°18′N...
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a military desertion. Deserted (film), a 2016 film "Deserted", a song by Blind Melon from their 1992 album Blind Melon Deserted, a 2019 album by the Mekons...
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The desert warbler is a former bird species, which has now been divided into two species: African desert warbler Sylvia deserti Asian desert warbler Sylvia...
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The Tengger Desert or Tengri Desert (Mongolian: Тэнгэр цөл, Chinese: 腾格里沙漠; pinyin: Ténggélǐ Shāmò; lit. 'Sky Desert') is an arid natural region that covers...
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The Chihuahuan Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Chihuahua, Desierto Chihuahuense) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the...
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The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana...
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High desert or High Desert may refer to the following: High Desert, Albuquerque, New Mexico, a development in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States High...
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The Katpana Desert (Biang-a Naqpo) or Katpana Biang-a or Cold Desert is a high-altitude desert located in Skardu Valley in District Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan...
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The Danakil Desert (or Afar Desert) is a desert in northeast Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, and northwestern Djibouti. Situated in the Afar Triangle, it...
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4071056°E / 30.4534083; 65.4071056 The Registan Desert (Persian: ریگستان), also known as Sistan Desert, is an extremely arid plateau region located between...
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The Nubian Desert (Arabic: صحراء النوبة Şaḩrā’ an Nūbah) is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, spanning approximately 400,000 km2 of northeastern...
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Crimson Desert is an upcoming action adventure game developed and published by Pearl Abyss. The game is scheduled to release for PlayStation 5, Windows...
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