The ASDM was created by William Carr and Arthur Pack and opened in 1952 as the " Arizona-Sonora Desert Trailside Museum.

The first board of trustees was not formed until months after the facility was opened, and one of its first acts was to change the name to Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

A cougar at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

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* Phillips, Steven J, Comus, Patricia Wentworth ( Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum ) ( 2000 ) A natural history of the Sonoran Desert University of California Press ISBN 0-520-21980-5 p, 377

* Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum-Ambrosia

File: Cacti barrel. JPG | Barrel cactus at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

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* Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

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The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is located on the west flank of the Tucson Mountains.

* Invaders Red Imported Fire Ant ( Solenopsis invicta ) at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

* Into the Simpson Desert: Join veteran desert archaeologist Dr Mike Smith on an expedition into the remote southern Simpson Desert ( 2007 )-includes audio blog, expedition slideshow and photo diary, National Museum of Australia

During an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Outer Mongolian Gobi Desert, on 11 August 1923 Peter Kaisen recovered the first Velociraptor fossil known to science: a crushed but complete skull, associated with one of the raptorial second toe claws ( AMNH 6515 ).

* General George S. Patton Memorial Museum, is located at the site of the Desert Training Center in Chiriaco Summit, California.

The Center for Sonoran Desert Studies, founded in 2005, conducts the educational and scientific functions of the Museum and is a hub for research, education and conservation of the Sonoran Desert.

* High Desert Museum

For Desiderio's handling of " flattened relief " we must turn to his panel of Saint Jerome at Prayer in the Desert ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC ) or his tondo of the Meeting of Christ and John the Baptist as Youths ( Louvre Museum, Paris ).

* Arizona – Sonora Desert Museum

* Arizona – Sonora Desert Museum

* Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert, National Museum of Australia online exhibition

* Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Trapdoor Spider ( Ummidia sp.

* El Paso-This Ripley's Museum is located at 7051 S Desert Blvd.

The Walters Art Museum. Gérôme's reputation was greatly enhanced at the Salon of 1857 by a collection of works of a more popular kind: the Duel: after the Masked Ball ( Musée Condé, Chantilly ), Egyptian Recruits crossing the Desert, Memnon and Sesostris and Camels Watering, the drawing of which was criticized by Edmond About.

A painting in the Beijing Palace Museum entitled Nomads in the Desert served as model for the series.

Image: Light of the Desert. jpg | At 890 carats, the Light of the Desert ( located at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum ) is the world's largest faceted cerussite .< ref >

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.