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Desertification became well known in the 1930s, when parts of the Great Plains in the United States turned into the "Dust Bowl" as a result of drought and poor practices in farming, although the term itself was not used until almost 1950. During the dust bowl period, millions of people were forced to abandon their farms and livelihoods.
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Thomas Edward Lawrence (August 16, 1888 – May 19, 1935), professionally known as T.E. Lawrence and, later, T.E. Shaw, but most famously known as Lawrence of Arabia, became famous for his role as a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916 to 1918. His very public image was in some part the result of U.S. traveller and journalist Lowell Thomas's sensationalised reportage of the Revolt, as well as Lawrence's autobiographical account, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Many Arabs consider him a folk hero for promoting their cause for freedom from both Ottoman and European rule; likewise, many Britons count him among their country's greatest war heroes.
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The Desert Rats (1953): directed by Robert Wise and starring Richard Burton, Robert Newton and Chips Rafferty. Tagline: They crawled their way across the blazing sands of Africa... to turn disaster into victory! Plot Outline: Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them.
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Mars is the only other planet on which we have identified wind-shaped (eolian) features. Although its surface atmospheric pressure is only about one-hundredth that of Earth, global circulation patterns on Mars have formed a circumpolar sand sea of more than five million square kilometers, an area greater than the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia, the largest sand sea on our planet.
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Rain shadow deserts are formed because tall mountain ranges prevent moisture-rich clouds from reaching areas on the lee, or protected side, of the range. As air rises over the mountain, water is precipitated and the air loses its moisture content. A desert is formed in the leeside "shadow" of the range. Examples are the Judean Desert in Israel and Palestine, the Great Basin of the western United States, and the Antelope Valley portion of the Mojave Desert, also called the High Desert, in southern California.
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A Horse With No Name by America
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Arizona Desert Chili
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The Syrian Desert is an of It's, er, sandy there!
The Saharan Desert is an of Sand's a threat here.
Mohabi Desert is an of Bit more shade?
The California Desert is an of Its air can feel red hot.
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Driest Place: For the period between 1964 and 2001, the average annual rainfall at the meteorological station in Quillagua, in the Atacama Desert, Chile, was just 0.5mm.
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Sunshine without rain makes a desert. (Arabian)
Talent without skill is like a desert without an oasis. (Arabian)
Don't demand that what you write in the Nile will be read in the desert. (Ethiopian)
When the Nile knows a secret the desert will soon know it too. (Ethiopian)
Working on the land is better than praying in the desert. (German)
Pearls are of no value in a desert. (Indian)
All sunshine makes the desert. (Saudi Arabian)
Any water in the desert will do. (Saudi Arabian)
Who preaches in the desert loses his sermon. (Spanish)
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