Men of the Desert is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Jack Gardner, Ruth King and Carl Stockdale. Jack Gardner...
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Two Men of the Desert (also known as Two Men on the Desert and Two Men in a Desert) is a 1913 American short silent Western film written and directed by...
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian road comedy film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot follows two drag...
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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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Mongolia. It is the sixth largest desert in the world. The name of the desert comes from the Mongolian word Gobi, used to refer to all of the waterless regions...
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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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The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits and ascetics, who lived primarily in the Scetes desert of the Roman province of Egypt, beginning around...
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Gulf War (redirect from Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm)
Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, which began with the aerial bombing...
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known as the "blue men of the desert". The origin of the blue men of the Minch may alternatively lie with "tattooing people" specifically the Picts, whose...
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College of the Desert (COD) is a public community college in Palm Desert, California. COD enrolls about 12,500 students, of which around one third attend...
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Desert kites (Arabic: مصائد صحراوية, romanized: maṣāʾid ṣaḥrāwiyya, lit. 'desert traps') are dry stone wall structures found in Southwest Asia (Middle...
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Meets World, as well as the voice of Nick Fury for The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Wolverine and the X-Men. Désert has been seen in Mom and...
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Desert of Lost Men is a 1951 American Western film directed by Harry Keller and starring Allan Lane, Mary Ellen Kay and Irving Bacon. The film's art direction...
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internationally known as desert blues, is a style of music from the Sahara region of northern and west Africa. Critics describe the music as a fusion of blues and rock...
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Uninhabited island (redirect from Desert island)
are sometimes also called "deserted islands" or "desert islands". In the latter, the adjective desert connotes not desert climate conditions, but rather...
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Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian action thriller film directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón. The screenplay, based on P. D. James' 1992 novel The Children...
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The deserts of California (also known as the California deserts and the California Desert or Deserts or Desert region) are the distinct deserts that each...
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The Conquest of the Desert (Spanish: Conquista del desierto) was an Argentine military campaign directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca during...
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the name was changed to the better-known Long Range Desert Group (LRDG). The LRDG never numbered more than 350 men, all of whom were volunteers. The LRDG...
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The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. It was inspired...
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is a desert in the West Bank and Israel that lies east of the Judaean Mountains, so east of Jerusalem, and descends to the Dead Sea. Under the name El-Bariyah...
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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a jukebox musical with book by Australian film director-writer Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott, using well-known pop...
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Desert Tech is an American munitions manufacturer. The company primarily produces bullpup rifles. It is financed and owned by members of the Kingston family...
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of the Desert. White Sun of the Desert (Russian: Белое солнце пустыни, romanized: Beloye solntse pustyni) is a 1970 Soviet Ostern film. Its blend of action...
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The Desert Air Force (DAF), also known chronologically as Air Headquarters Western Desert, Air Headquarters Libya, the Western Desert Air Force, and the...
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W. S. Van Dyke (category American people of Dutch descent)
The Land of Long Shadows, for Essanay Studios. That same year he directed five other films: The Range Boss, Open Places, Men of the Desert, Gift O' Gab...
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Malcolm Douglas Men of the Desert with Malcolm Douglas North from Broome with Malcolm Douglas The Wild North West with Malcolm Douglas The Coral Coast with...
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as the "blue men of the desert". Among the Tuareg, men who wear the tagelmust are called Kel Tagelmust, or "People of the Veil". The tagelmust is worn...
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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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strange men in the desert, among them an old, wicked landowner named Nazir Mohammad, who was known to have murdered Shabanu's cousin, Lal Khan, in the past...
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