No meteorites have ever been recovered from paleoexplosion craters, and recent craters containing impact glass have all been produced by metallic meteorites with the exception of Aouelloul crater, Adrar, Western Sahara Desert.

Yusuf ibn Tashfin had in the meantime brought what is now known as Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauretania into complete subjection.

Western scholarship has tended to focus on cities in Europe and Mesopotamia, but emerging archeological evidence indicates that urbanization occurred south of the Sahara well before the influence of Arab urban culture.

* 1976 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

* The Pan-Arab colors, green, white, red and black, are derived from the flag of the Great Arab Revolt as seen on the flags of Jordan, Libya, Kuwait, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen and Palestine.

* United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara,

* Western Sahara War

This was capitalized upon by King Hassan II of Morocco, who ordered the ' Green March ' into Western Sahara, Spain's last colonial possession.

** MINURSO, from 1991 ( Western Sahara ) – 5 out of 915 soldiers from 14 countries

* Independence Intifada ( Western Sahara ), demonstrations and riots in Morocco and Western Sahara beginning in May 2005

They are sometimes used unofficially-such as amateur radio operators operating in a disputed territory or in a nation state that has no official prefix ( e. g. S0 in Western Sahara or station 1A0 at Knights of Malta headquarters in Rome ).

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ) was proclaimed by Polisario on 28 February 1976, and Libya began to recognize the SADR as the legitimate government of Western Sahara starting 15 April 1980.

* Libya was also was one the main supporters of the Polisario Front in the former Spanish Sahara – a nationalist group dedicated to ending Spanish colonialism in the region, and from 1975, to combatting the Moroccan occupation of what is now known as Western Sahara.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ) was proclaimed by Polisario on 28 February 1976, and Libya began to recognize the SADR as the legitimate government of Western Sahara starting 15 April 1980.

Libyan support for the Polisario Front in the Western Sahara facilitated early post independence Algerian relations with Libya.

* Haouza, Western Sahara

In 1975, partly for nationalist reasons and partly for fear of Moroccan expansionism, Mauritania invaded and annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara ( now Western Sahara ) in 1975, renaming it Tiris al-Gharbiyya.

Mauritania, under its new government, immediately returned to the table to meet Polisario's goals, declaring full peace, a troop retreat, relinquishing their portion of Western Sahara and recognizing the Front as the Sahrawi people's sole representative.

Morocco, occupying the northern half of Western Sahara and also involved in combat against Polisario, reacted with outrage, and launched a failed 1981 coup against the CMSN.

After achieving independence in 1960 the Faidem's ( Force Aerienne Islamique de Mauritanie ) was supplied equipment by France, such as C-47s and MH. 1521 Broussards, which was later replaced by the Britten-Norman BN-2A Defender between 1976 – 78 and had operated as a transport and observation squadron in the Western Sahara War.

In August 2010, The Minnesota-based fertilizer company The Mosaic Company send a mail to Western Sahara Resource Watch where the Social responsibility director of the firm states:

* Jones, Eric L. " The History of Natural Resource Exploitation in the Western World ," Research in Economic History, 1991 Supplement 6, pp 235 – 252

Volvo AB acquired the U. S. assets of the company in 1981, while two energy-related companies based in Calgary, Alberta, Bow Valley Resource Services, and NovaCorp, an Alberta corporation, purchased the Canadian assets, including the Kelowna, British Columbia, plant, and the Western Star nameplate and product range.

Recipients of recurring Schumann Foundation grants during the 1990s, ranging from under $ 100, 000 to more than $ 5 million annually, include the Tides Foundation and Tides Center, Environmental Working Group, Union of Concerned Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, Western Organization of Resource Councils, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, the Center for Media and Democracy, The Nation, Mother Jones, In These Times, TomPaine. com, and The American Prospect.

The Western Center for Integrated Resource Management works on sustainability and profitability with graduate students and local farmers.

* School of Civil and Resource Engineering, University of Western Australia

It's university library, the Henry Luce III Library is one the largest in the Western Visayas region and one of the largest in the country, that has more than 200, 000 volumes including holdings of special collections like the 40, 000 United Nations Documents, American Studies Resource Center, World War II Documents, Meyer-Asian Collection, Food and Agriculture Organization and Elizabeth Knox Sacred Music Collection.

There are a large number of Government funded community organisations and programs located in Inala, some of these include Inala Youth Service, Inala Community House, Skylarkers, Western Districts Out of Home Care, Western Districts Family Steps, Shared Family Care and The Childcare Access and Equity Resource Support Unit.

She had won plaudits for her efforts at the Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre and was backed by Munter and other well-known Kanata figures.

" The History of Natural Resource Exploitation in the Western World ," Research in Economic History, Supplement 6, pp 235 – 252

Wilkinson also has considerable volunteer experience working for various groups: Community Resource Centre for Goulbourn, Kanata and West Carleton ( Founder ); Kanata Food Cupboard ( Chair ); Kanata-Beaverbrook Community Centre ( Director ); University Women ’ s Club ( Founder ); Ottawa Talent Initiative ; St. John ’ s Church ( Warden ); Kanata Choral Society ( Founder ); Kanata Canada Day Committee ( Founder ); Western Community Resource Centre ( Chair of Steering Committee ); and Ottawa Chamber of Voluntary Organizations ( member of Steering Committee ).

* Watch historical footage of Perth and Western Australia from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's collection.

The verdict was strongly criticised by Western human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and Helsinki Watch, which claimed that the case was based on " communist propaganda ", and the accused were not charged with either using or advocating violence.

Websites such as Jew Watch accuse the entire spectrum of Western nations and other countries of being ruled by " Zionist Occupation Governments ".

On April 21, 2006, the Middle East Forum launched Islamist Watch, a project that Islamist Watch states it " combat the ideas and institutions of nonviolent, radical Islam in the United States and other Western countries.

Besides thoroughbred horses, standardbred greats such as Western Dreamer, Cam Fella and Rambling Willie have made the Kentucky Horse Park their home, as well as 5-gaited Saddlebred gelding CH Gypsy Supreme and late champions CH Imperator and CH Sky Watch.

His 2008 film Rembrandt's J ' Accuse is a sequel or follow-on, and covers the same idea, using extremely detailed analysis of the compositional elements in the painting ; in this Greenaway describes The Night Watch as ( currently ) the fourth most famous painting in the Western world, after the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

His long list of honorary military posts included: honorary colonel of the 2nd London Corps from 24 September 1887, honorary colonel of the 5th Battalion, the Sherwood Foresters ( Derbyshire Regiment ) from 29 December 1888, honorary colonel of the 1st Newcastle upon Tyne ( Western Division ), Royal Artillery from 18 April 1894, honorary colonel of the Waterford Artillery ( Southern Division ) from 4 March 1896, colonel-commandant of the Royal Artillery from 7 October 1896, honorary colonel of the 3rd Battalion, the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment from 1 January 1898, honorary colonel of the City of London Imperial Volunteers from 10 March 1900, honorary colonel of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment from 5 September 1900, colonel of the Irish Guards from 17 October 1900, honorary colonel of the 2nd Hampshire ( Southern Division ), Royal Garrison Artillery from 15 August 1901, honorary colonel of the 3rd ( Dundee Highland ) Volunteer Battalion, the Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders ) from 19 September 1903, honorary colonel of the North Somerset Yeomanry from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of the 6th Battalion, the City of London ( Rifles ') Regiment from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of the 1st Wessex Brigade from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of 6th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of The Waterford Royal Field Reserve Artillery from 2 August 1908 and honorary colonel of 1st ( Hull ) Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment from 11 November 1914 ( three days before his death ).

* The Woodland Watch Project ( part of the World Wildlife Fund has an annual BioBlitz in wheatbelt areas of Western Australia.

Western non-governmental Organizations, such as the Burma Campaign UK, the US Campaign for Burma, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have made a variety of serious accusations against the SPDC.

Human Rights Watch has stated " There is no evidence that this was a consensual act ," and observed that " The bulk of evidence suggests that the youths were tried on allegations of raping a 13-year-old, with the suggestion that they were tried for consensual homosexual conduct seemingly based almost entirely on mistranslations and on cursory news reporting magnified by the Western press.

Western African nations of Cameroon, Côte d ' Ivoire, Ghana and Mali are the 2009 US State Department's Tier 2 Watch List for human trafficking in part due to the trafficking of children in cocoa production.