Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.

While dragging the unconscious alien across the desert, Hiller is picked up by a ragtag group of refugees driving campers and trucks to a nearby military base.

Running out of fuel, they crash on the nearby desert " Moon of Vega ", and find their way to a cave occupied by the wise old Yogurt ( Brooks ).

Every river system has been dammed causing fresh water shortages in nearby desert communities.

One day a Mayo native princess was traveling alone through the desert nearby which made the Opata believe she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary.

They and the nearby desert resort city are home to a large LGBT community.

The blaze, named the Sawtooth Complex fire, also burned into Yucca Valley and nearby Morongo Valley and destroyed roughly 64, 000 acres ( 100 square miles ) of desert landscape.

Island Park is at the same of elevation as Teton Valley, Idaho, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, or the Centennial Valley, Montana yet these nearby areas are semi-arid prairie or even desert receiving less than of precipitation annually while Island Park is forested and green with many steams, ponds, lakes, and meadows.

Unlike nearby Seattle, Moses Lake has a dry climate, and is classed as desert due to its annual rainfall.

Alluvial fans are often found in desert areas subject to periodic flash floods from nearby thunderstorms in local hills.

In the 2007 American comic book Atarian Conquest, an alien named Irvyll, rescued from Area 51 by his home race, claims to be the descendant of the aliens who " crashed in a nearby Eartian desert in the mid 1900's ".

The Spanish interest in Western Africa in desert coast of Sahara was the result of fishing activities carried out from the nearby Canary Islands by Spanish fishers and the Barbary pirates menace.

The Lavrite style of living has its origins in the early fourth century with the founding of a settlement of cells in the Nitrean desert at a site known as Nitria, named for the nearby town of the same name.

Many families from other towns or from the bedouin tribes of the nearby desert eventually settled in the area and by the 18th century Diriyah had become a well-known town in Nejd.

As they clear it, Arab gunmen emerge from a nearby wheat field and take Tintin, whom they too believe is the Zionist activist, into the desert.

The main city nearby the Ahaggar is Tamanghasset, built in a desert valley or wadi.

The McMurdo Dry Valleys are classified as extreme desert, the area receives less than of snow precipitation a year, this snow builds the nearby glaciers.

The children, hardened to the desert environment, are descendants of the survivors of a nearby crashed Qantas Boeing 747.

Children posted adjacent to the village's Christian mission sold rocks collected in the desert or from nearby caves.

* Shipwreck School, about a group of kids ( and their teacher ) who are stranded on a desert island, and frequently invent ways to alert a nearby ship.

In the 3rd Century Anthony of Egypt ( 252-356 ) lived as a hermit in the desert and gradually gained followers who lived as hermits nearby but not in actual community with him.

Tuck meets a British paleontologist named Horace Bromley ( Laurence Naismith ), who was working in a nearby Mexican desert.

According to a 2003 study by the Project on Defense Alternatives Research, there were probably about 7, 500-10, 000 people who rode in the cut-off main caravan to begin with, but once the bombing started, most of them are believed to have simply left their vehicles in panic and escaped through the desert or into the nearby swamps ( where 450-500 of them were taken prisoner ).

Before he can even reply, Kirk and the Gorn captain are simultaneously teleported to an unknown desert planet somewhere nearby.

Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the ancient cities of Memphis, Giza and Fustat which are nearby to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza.

The route passes through or nearby the cities

Shortly after the depletion of the gas in 1900 the automobile industry set up factories in the nearby large cities, and Fairmount became a bedroom community, restoring some of its lost prosperity.

Fairmount is still relatively prosperous despite the ill fortunes of nearby industrial cities and a steady loss of population.

This started to change around the end of the third millennium as cities started to spread to the nearby hilly country: among the Assyrians in north Mesopotamia, the Canaanites in Syria-Palestine, to the Minoans in Crete, and to the Hittites in eastern Anatolia.

These cities have large seasonal populations that arrive from the nearby urban areas such as Chicago, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids and Detroit, as well as from Southern states, such as Florida and Texas.

Lyon & Healy evidently began manufacturing these instruments around 1876 in its factories in Chicago and nearby cities.

There are also other airports that have international status such as the ones in Choibalsan and Khovd towns that connect nearby Chinese cities of Ürümqi, Hailar and Erenhot ( planned ) although they are more popular among local population.

Independent circuits can be found in almost any community in the United States, with some cities having numerous leagues using many of the same wrestlers as other nearby leagues.

After the Roman conquest of the Nabataean Empire and the Roman naval presence at Aden to curb piracy, Arab merchants barred Indian merchants from trading in the free port cities of the Arabian Peninsula because of the nearby Roman presence.

Moreover, as metropolitan areas expanded and enveloped smaller but well-established nearby cities, it made little sense to call those old cities " suburbs " merely because they were smaller and less renowned than the central city.

Tübingen is, with nearby Reutlingen ( about east ), one of the two centre cities of the Neckar-Alb region.

Because of its history, the historical inner city of The Hague differs in various respects from the nearby smaller cities of Leiden and Delft.

RandstadRail connects The Hague to nearby cities, Zoetermeer, Rotterdam and Leidschendam-Voorburg.

* In Kane County, Illinois, the county seat of Geneva and the nearby cities of Batavia, and St. Charles,

In addition to being a haven for artists, the southern end of Whidbey Island also serves as a minor bedroom community for the nearby cities of Everett, where the Boeing Everett Factory is located, and Seattle.

During the second half of the 20th century, many counties received overflow population from nearby cities.

For departures to smaller cities and towns within the department, using informal stations located in Villa Fatima ( departures to Los Yungas, Beni and Pando, Upper San Pedro ( outputs Apolo ) and near the General Cemetery ( outputs Copacabana and other nearby cities to Lake Titicaca, and also Tiwanacu, Desaguadero where you can go to Peru ).

Mazara del Vallo is among the Italian cities with the highest percentages of immigrants ; it is estimated that the city hosts at least 3, 500 registered immigrants, mainly from nearby Tunisia but also the other countries of the Maghreb.

Panticapaeum subdued nearby cities and by 480 BC became a capital of the Kingdom of Bosporus.

Located nearby are several ancient burial mounds ( kurgans ) and excavated cities.

* 1978: The company's Hollywood-Burbank Airport is sold to its nearby cities and becomes Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport ( later renamed Bob Hope Airport in 2003 ).

More specifically, it has features found in both nearby coastal cities such as San Francisco and inland cities such as San Jose, making it warmer than San Francisco and cooler than San Jose.