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He is the author of The Desert Generals, a book that attacked the perceived cult of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and assessed the roles of his sacked predecessors as commanders in the North Africa campaign, including Richard O ' Connor, who drove the Italians from Cyrenaica in late 1940, and Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck ( whom he called " The Victor of Alamein "), who forced Rommel to a halt at the First Battle of El Alamein, only to be dismissed by Winston Churchill for his pains.
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I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
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The author of Crystal Structures is Ralph W.G. Wyckoff, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
He selected as Comptroller of Defense, not a veteran accountant, but a former Rhodes Scholar, Charles Hitch, who is author of a study on The Economics Of Defense In The Nuclear Age.
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A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.
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Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.
This latter failure is more than merely bad reportage and it is distinctly more important than it would have been had the author drawn Clerfayt as, say, a tournament golfer.
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Libyan Desert silica-glass, another natural glass, is composed of nearly pure silica and has the same trace germanium content as sands in the area.
This glass is probably formed from Libyan Desert sands by comet or stony-meteorite impact.
The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.
Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).
The area is agriculturally poor except in the river valleys, being rough and mountainous towards the south, but subsiding into undulating wastes and pasture-lands towards the Karakum Desert.
The Kalahari Desert is in the central and the southwest.
However, Bethlehem is affected also by annual waves of hot, dry, sandy and dust Khamaseen winds from the Arabian Desert, during April, May and mid-June.
In the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, many of which antedate the fourth century, there is frequent evidence of individual anchorites possessing in book-form collections of the Psalms.
This then is our earliest evidence of monks praying the Psalms as the main part of their daily scripted and Scriptural prayer regimen: the Desert Fathers.
Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.
N ' Djamena, the capital, is located more than 1, 100 kilometers northeast of the Atlantic Ocean ; Abéché, a major city in the east, lies 2, 650 kilometers from the Red Sea ; and Faya-Largeau, a much smaller but strategically important center in the north, is in the middle of the Sahara Desert, 1, 550 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.
The summit of this formation — as well as the highest point in the Sahara Desert — is Emi Koussi, a dormant volcano that reaches 3, 414 meters above sea level.
The seventh largest lake in the world ( and the fourth largest in Africa ), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert.
The word Cholistan is derived from the Turkish word Chol, which means Desert.
The Cholistan Desert Jeep Rally | Cholistan Jeep Rally is held in the city every year in the Cholistan desert
Transmontane chaparral features xeric desert climate-not Mediterranean climate habitats, and is also referred to as Desert chaparral.
Desert chaparral is a regional ecosystem subset of the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, with some plant species from the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.
Transmontane chaparral or Desert chaparral is found on the eastern slopes of major mountain range systems on the western sides of the deserts of California.
* Opuntia phaecantha, Desert prickly pear ( fruit is important food source for animals )
Nearby is also the semi-arid area known as the Accona Desert.
Dance is still used for this purpose by many cultures from the Brazilian rainforest to the Kalahari Desert.
Through the Desert ( Into the Desert in older edition ) is similar to The Four Islands, but consists of a large continent and smaller outlying islands.
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