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Rural Experiences: The Western Desert
2019This chapter is concerned with the Dakhla and Kharga Oases in the Western Desert. This was an obscure region, considered by the Egyptians to be outside of Egypt proper. Population there was limited, especially after the Old Kingdom when the artesian wells dried up. This picture changes dramatically under Achaemenid rule.
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The Penetration of the Western Deserts of Australia
The Geographical Journal, 1970The colony of South Australia was founded as late as 1836, but once established passed through an extraordinarily rapid development. Within a very few years expansion and the search for new pastures had reached the fringe of the desert interior, which was being probed to lay bare its secrets.
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Relating to the Country in the Western Desert
1995Abstract At the time I conducted eleven months’ fieldwork in the region ofUluru (Ayers Rock, Australian Western Desert) between 1977 and 1979, half a century had passed since colonization by pastoralists had irrevocably changed the indigenous way of life. Uluru itself had been subject to tourism for twenty years. East of Uluru lay cattle
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Western Sahara: Deserted Standards?
2011As one of the last unresolved self-determination cases originating during decolonization, Western Sahara has been on the international agenda for decades. Yet, despite over forty years of international pressure, mediation, peacekeeping, and attempts to conduct a referendum, the issue remains unresolved.
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2004
Abstract The Western Desert campaigns were fought in Egypt and Libya under the auspices of the Middle East Command, which had its headquarters in Cairo. It was the most important of the three campaigns fought by British and Commonwealth forces in the region, the others being in East Africa (Ethiopia and Somaliland) and the Balkans ...
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Abstract The Western Desert campaigns were fought in Egypt and Libya under the auspices of the Middle East Command, which had its headquarters in Cairo. It was the most important of the three campaigns fought by British and Commonwealth forces in the region, the others being in East Africa (Ethiopia and Somaliland) and the Balkans ...
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Rainbows in the Indian rock art of desert western America
Applied Optics, 1990Scattered throughout the Great Basin and the drainages of the upper Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers is a legacy of prehistoric and historic (i.e., post-Spanish contact) Indian rock art that represents a several-thousand year old tradition of creating culturally meaningful images on stone.
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Cretaceous of Western Desert, Egypt: Discussion
AAPG Bulletin, 1971Includes a reply by Soliman A. Soliman (for reference to paper under discussion see this Bibliography Vol. 35, No. 2, 20 E71-03538)
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Sustainability of the Al-Abila Dam in the Western Desert of Iraq
Water (Switzerland), 2022Karrar Mahdi +2 more
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Yardangs of the Western Desert
The Geographical Journal, 1980M. J. Grolier +3 more
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Geomorphology of aeolian dunes in the western Sahara Desert
Geomorphology, 2021Na Zhou, Xin Gao, Jiaqiang Lei
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