The precipitation maximum, which follows the solar equator through the year, is under the rising branch of the Hadley circulation ; the sub-tropical minima are under the descending branch and cause the desert areas.

Al-Alfi then made his way to the eastern branch of the Nile, but the region had become dangerous and he fled to the desert.

The Daza language, Dazaga, also known as Goran ( Arabic قرعان ), is a language spoken in the Djurab desert region of Chad by the Daza people, and is part of the Saharan branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family.

Pedro Luis Serrano was a Spanish sailor who was supposed to have been marooned for seven or eight years in the sixteenth century on a small desert island.

Native vegetation is largely intact as the desert is uninhabitable so habitats are not threatened by agriculture but are damaged by introduced species, particularly rabbits and feral camels.

Another early motive was the search for the Seven Cities of Gold, or " Cibola ", rumored to have been built by Native Americans somewhere in the desert Southwest.

The Seven Cities of Gold, or " Cibola ", was rumored to have been built by Native Americans somewhere in the desert Southwest.

Hergé names a specific Native American tribe, the Blackfeet, but here his penchant for fine detail noted in his portrayal of 1930s Arabia, India, and China is not so evident: The Blackfoot reservation is actually in northern Montana near the Canadian border, the giant Saguaro cactus is actually found in the Sonora desert of southern Arizona, and the railroad locomotives ( portrayed with the dangling couplers and massive double bumpers ) are actually those of period European equipment.

Let's Go Native ( 1930 ), was a desert island comedy directed by Leo McCarey, co-starring Jack Oakie and Kay Francis.

Indigenous members of the Tropas Nomadas or desert police serving in the Spanish Sahara were also designated as " askaris ", as were the other ranks of the Native Police ( Policia Indigena ) raised in Melilla in 1909.

When Witt becomes drunk and starts demoralising the men with his dire predictions, causing the soldiers of the Natal Native Contingent to desert, Chard orders him to be locked in a supply room.

The syenite rock formation is covered with ' desert patina ' ( visible in the image below ), the result of thousands of years of weathering of the rock surface by sun, sand, and water ; the site is culturally and spiritually significant to many Native Americans, such as the Mescalero Apache, the Kiowa, the Hopi, and the Pueblo people.

He encountered and recorded accounts of the Native American tribes in their desert and riparian valley homelands, and established peaceable relations for the Crown, including with the Quechan, Mojave, Hopi, and Havasupai.

His " Indian Detours " were meant to provide an authentic Native American experience by having actors stage a certain lifestyle in the desert in order to sell tickets to unwitting tourists.

Life in the desert is explored in the Native Crops Garden, which illustrates the prehistoric agricultural practices in Central and Southern Arizona.

A U. S. satellite laser cannon has caused serious damage to oil fields in the Saudi Arabian desert, dissolving already strained relations between the U. S. and that country ; Rexall ’ s presidency is wracked by scandal and his economic policies of the previous 13 years are widely unpopular ; U. S. government relations with Native Americans of the southwest are also strained ; and national budget cuts have forced the closing of prisons and mental institutions, including Martha ’ s, who is left homeless on the streets of Chicago.

On 16 July 1945, the Americans successfully tested an atomic bomb at the Trinity test at Alamogordo in the New Mexico desert, USA.

A CIA-controlled Predator drone fired a Hellfire missile at an SUV in the Yemeni desert containing Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, a Yemeni suspected senior al-Qaeda lieutenant believed to have been the mastermind behind the October 2000 USS Cole bombing that killed 17 Americans.

The plot follows three Americans, Port, his wife Kit and their friend, Tunner, as they journey through the Algerian desert, culminating in the death of one ( Port ) and the descent into madness of another ( Kit ).

They also offered them land bounties to desert and join the Americans.

Americans tried to entice Hessians to desert from the British and join the large German-American population.

The battle was a victory for the Americans, occurring in desert terrain, at the Mexican town of Guerrero, in the state of Chihuahua.

Recovered from near extirpation by the Hudson's Bay Company, who tried to create a " fur desert " to discourage Americans from coming to the far western states, benefits of beaver in arid eastern Oregon include creating ponds which along young salmonids to grow, raising the water table as their ponds recharge groundwater supplies and creating wetlands which trap sediment and pollutants.

He based the film's cinematography, use of desert landscapes, and filming of battle scenes on David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, also using many of the same sets, including the " Aqaba " set which had been constructed for Lean's film, here serving as the setting for the final, three-way battle between the Berbers, the Europeans and their Moroccan allies, and the Americans.

While the Americans stay to fight off the KGB agents, Javorsky flees into the desert, walking for a great distance, and removing much of his clothing.

Cornwallis also sent men to " desert " to the Americans with information that most of the British force had crossed, leaving only a rear guard on the north side of the river.

After he recovered, he made a second effort and went back into the desert to a farther mountain by the Nile called Pispir, now Der el Memun, opposite Crocodilopolis.

Saint Anthony had been under the impression that he was the first person to ever dwell in the desert ; however, due to a vision, Saint Anthony was called into the desert to find his predecessor, Saint Paul.

" A new religious figure called " The Preacher " has risen in the desert, railing against the religious government's injustices and the changes among the Fremen.

There are further examples throughout ; a show called ‘ Big Shot ’ informs the characters of the current bounties, the crew continually come across saloons and desert worlds, engage in gunfights and standoffs.

The Great Victoria is the largest desert in Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles ( called desert pavement or gibber plains ) and salt lakes.

The large central desert of Kazakhstan is still called Dashti-Kipchak, or the Kipchak Steppe.

A hot wind blowing from the Egyptian desert called the khamsin ( Arabic for " fifty "), may provide a warming trend during the fall, but more often occurs during the spring.

The connection to the Nile River was made not simply because this was then known as the great river of " Aethiopia " ( by which all lands south of the desert were called by Classical writers ), but because the Nile flooded every summer.

In the north, the An Nafud — sometimes called the Great Nafud because An Nafud is the term for desert — covers about 55, 000 square kilometers at an elevation of about 1, 000 meters.

In the series, Ganondorf is the leader of a race of desert brigands called the Gerudo who consist of mainly females apart from 1 man born every 100 years ( Ganondorf ), and the evil archenemy of Link.

In Hebrew the five books are named by the first phrase in the text: Bereshit (" In beginning ," Genesis ), Shemot (" Names ," Exodus ), Vayikra (" He called ", Leviticus ), Bamidbar (" In the desert ," Numbers ) and Devarim (" Words ," Deuteronomy ).

The Kyzyl Kum (, ), also called Qyzylqum, is the 11th largest desert in the world.

Soon the Egyptian desert blossomed with monasteries, especially around Nitria, which was called the " Holy City ".

One group, called the " Nature Boys ", took to the California desert and raised organic food, espousing a back-to-nature lifestyle like the Wandervogel.

This is called a " desert mirage " or " highway mirage ".

According to the UNESCO report ( 60100 ha / Ref: 954 ) and website hereunder, this monastery has been called the oldest working Christian monastery in the world – although the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, also lays claim to that title.

Depending on the area where they live, the dingoes in Australia are occasionally called alpine dingoes, desert dingoes, northern dingoes, Cape York dingoes, or tropical dingoes.

On the continent's far western side is another mountain range called " The Hellers " and a high elevation cold desert plateau called " The Dry Towns.

: There is another desert called the " Great Sandy Desert " in Oregon, US.

The backstep team and the equipment are stationed in a base called Never Never Land, which is in a secret location somewhere in the desert of Nevada.

Over matured grapes give a desert wine with non-fermented sugars and high alcohol level ( around 12 %) called sweet malvasia ( Slovene and Coatian: sladka malvazija ).

In Romania, donuts are a desert called " gogoși ".