Cholistan thus means Land of the Desert.

These US Army Intrinsic Action ( later called Operation Desert Spring on 1 October 1999 ) rotations and US Marine Corps EAGER MACE rotations conducted combined training with the Kuwaiti Land Forces and other coalition partners.

However, the remaining vast tracts of unsettled land were often used as a commons, or, in the American West, " open range " As degradation of habitat developed due to overgrazing and a tragedy of the commons situation arose, common areas began to either be allocated to individual landowners via mechanisms such as the Homestead Act and Desert Land Act and fenced in, or, if kept in public hands, leased to individual users for limited purposes, with fences built to separate tracts of public and private land.

With the exception of the Mining Law of 1872 and the Desert Land Act of 1877 ( which was amended ), all have since been repealed or superseded by other statutes.

The Little Desert debate galvanised Victoria's conservation movement into forming a peak body, the Conservation Council of Victoria and the conservative Victorian government of Henry Bolte to adopt environmental policies, such as establishing the Land Conservation Council to systematically and independently review all future public land use across the state.

The crashed alien saucer was taken to a secret base called " Never Never Land " ( inspired by Groom Lake in Area 51, nicknamed in real-life as " Dreamland ") in the Nevada Desert where it was reverse-engineered ( similar to Bob Lazar's story about his job at the S-4 base ).

The eight worlds feature distinct visual themes ; for example, the second world, " Desert Land ", contains sand-covered levels with pyramids, while the levels in the fourth world, " Giant Land ", are populated with obstacles and enemies four times as large as other worlds.

As the climate and topography were not promising to settlement, the entire region remained sparsely populated until several federal congressional actions, including the Northern Pacific Land Grant Act, the Homestead Act, and Desert Claims Act, encouraged the settlement of this semi-arid desert.

County Trunk Highway E ( CTH-E ) begins in the Central business district of the unincoporated community of Phelps and runs northwest to serve the area around Lac Vieux Desert before ending at US 45 / WIS 32 approximately south of Land o ' Lakes.

He described a visit to the Holy Land in three volumes, The Desert, Jerusalem, and Galilee, ( 1895 – 1896 ), and wrote a novel, Ramuntcho ( 1897 ), a story of contraband runners in the Basque province, which is one of his best writings.

* The Judean Desert in the Land of Israel and the Dead Sea.

Pingaree is an island in the Nonestic Ocean that surrounds the fairy countries that encircle the Deadly Desert that surrounds the Land of Oz.

Kiki changes himself and Ruggedo into birds and they fly over the Deadly Desert into the Land of Oz.

Red, yellow and white ochres are plentiful across Australia, especially the Western Desert, Kimberley and Arnhem Land regions, and occur in many archaeological sites.

Thrust SSC set two official World Land Speed Records at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA.

* Desert Land Act

Both the Pliocene-Pleistocene Epoch boundary and the Blancan-Irvingtonian North American Land Mammal Ages boundary fall within the long geological record from the Anza-Borrego Desert.

The Desert Land Act was passed by the United States Congress on March 3, 1877 to encourage and promote the economic development of the arid and semiarid public lands of the Western states.

Trial runs of the stunt with the Land Rover, during which Bond escapes by parachute from the tumbling vehicle, were filmed in the Mojave Desert, although the final cut of the film uses a shot achieved using a dummy.

The Deadly Desert is the magical desert that completely surrounds the fictional Land of Oz.

* Land Reclamation and Desert Greening by sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide ;

This makes the Piura Region a land that is both tropical and arid at the same time, The Land where the Tropics meets The Desert

* Land and Live in the Desert ( 1945 ) ( short subject ) ( narrator )

* 1994: California Desert Protection Act PL 103-433

* 2010: California Desert Protection Act

In 1890, the two men from Peoria, Illinois, acquired four sections of land from the government through the Desert Lands Act.

The preserve was established October 31, 1994 with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act by the US Congress.

The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 ( CDPA ) designated a wilderness area within Mojave National Preserve of approximately.

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* 2011: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Sister Act, and Newsies

* March 3, 1877: Desert Land Act, ch.

The land was set aside with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 ( Public Law 103-433 ) by the US Congress.

Link-4 datalink capability allowed US Navy Tomcats to share information with the E-2C Hawkeye AEW aircraft, and during Desert Shield in 1990, the Link-4A was introduced and allowed the Tomcats to have a fighter-to-fighter datalink capability, further enhancing overall situational awareness.

The city surrendered in August and an-Nasir Yusuf's terms forced al-Ashraf Musa to hand over Homs, but he was allowed to retain nearby Palmyra and Tell Bashir in the Syrian Desert.

But Columbia's parent company at the time, Coca-Cola, had money in Morocco it could not repatriate, so the studio relented and allowed production to take place in the real Sahara Desert.

In 1991, F-117s were tasked with attacking the most heavily fortified targets in Iraq in the opening phase of Operation Desert Storm and were the only jets allowed to operate inside Baghdad's city limits.

The original. 50 Action Express bore diameter was. 500 " with conventional rifling, but the switch to polygonal rifling on production Desert Eagles Pistols allowed the gauge plug to drop through, rendering the gun a destructive device under Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( BATFE ) regulations.

Subsequently, in 2005, the legislature allowed relinquishment within Indian Wells, Indio, and Palm Desert, subject to the same conditions, and to the condition that the cities must maintain signs for the route.

Although geographically the Valley is the northwestern extension of the Sonoran Desert to the southeast, the irrigation of over 100, 000 acres ( 405 km² ) of the Valley since the early 20th century has allowed widespread agriculture.

The arrival of an Australian division in Egypt allowed General Wavell to release the 4th Indian Infantry Division from Operation Compass in the Western Desert.

Consequently, ecological conditions remained favourable for at least six months and allowed several successive generations of Desert Locust breeding.