Site of Siwah Oasis in Egypt ( top left )

Although their native language, Siwah, is a Berber dialect, it is not closely related to other Berber languages.

Chapter 14 gives the best modern account of Alexander's visit to the oasis at Siwah, with some background material on the Greek conception of Sibyls.

* 1802 -- " Observations on the language of Siwah ; in a letter to the Rt.

Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert.

Adventures in the Libyan Desert and the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon.

The Siwa Oasis ( Siwi: Isiwan ; Wāḥat Sīwah, ) is an oasis in Egypt, located between the Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Sand Sea in the Libyan Desert, nearly 50 km ( 30 mi ) east of the Libyan border, and 560 km ( 348 mi ) from Cairo.

Sources contemporary to Khufu's time give two key pieces of information: One of them was found at the Dakhla Oasis in the Libyan Desert.

One of his victories over certain Libyan marauders is mentioned in a Year 10 and Year 11 stela from the Dakhla Oasis.

The interior of the Matrouh Governorate is part of the Libyan Desert, including the Siwa Oasis, in antiquity known for its shrine to Ammon.

In 1926, Desio organized and led a geographical and geological expedition to the Oasis of Jaghbub, in the Libyan Desert.

Dakhla Oasis ( Arabic: الداخلة ; transliteration: al-Dākhla ;: Al Wāḩāt ad Dākhilah ), also spelt Dakhleh and known colloquially as the inner oasis, is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert ( part of the Libyan Desert ).

The south of the Libyan Desert has the most important supply of subterranean water in the world through the Nubian Aquifer, and the first inhabitants of the Dakhla Oasis had access to surface water sources.

The Libyan Sibyl, named Phemonoe, was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Zeus Ammon Oracle ( Zeus represented with the horns of Ammon ) at Siwa Oasis in the Libyan Desert.

In 1820 he joined the expedition of the French consul general and explorer Bernardino Drovetti to the oasis of Siwa in the Libyan desert, where the oracle of Ammon had been consulted by Alexander the Great but to which no modern European had penetrated ; his drawings illustrated the Voyage à l ' Oasis de Syouah, published by E. Jomard ( 1823 ).

The border through ' Al Buraymi Oasis, located near the conjunction of the frontiers of Oman, Abu Dhabi ( one of the emirates of the UAE ) and Saudi Arabia, has triggered extensive dispute among the three states since the Treaty of Jeddah in 1927.

The extensive Al Liwa Oasis is in the south near the undefined border with Saudi Arabia, and about 100 kilometers to the northeast is the Al Buraymi Oasis, which extends on both sides of the Abu Dhabi-Oman border.

The six-month search was conducted along the Egyptian-Libyan border in a remote 100-square-kilometer area of complex dunes south west of the uninhabited Bahrein Oasis, approximately 100 miles south east of Siwa ( Amon ) Oasis.

Lake Hāmūn ( Daryācheh-ye Hāmūn ) or Hamoun Oasis is a term applied to wetlands in endorheic Sīstān Basin on the Irano-Afghan border.

Hāmūn-e Helmand ( also known as Hāmūn-e Hīrmand, “ Lake Hāmūn ”, Hamoun Oasis, Daryācheh-ye Hāmūn or Daryācheh-ye Sīstān (“ Lake Sīstān ”)) is a shallow, marshy, lake ( or lagoon ) or hāmūn located in eastern Iran, near the Afghanistan border.

About 3500 BCE the cultural unity of the culture split into two pottery styles: colourful in the west ( Anau, Kara-Depe and Namazga-Depe ) and more austere in the east at Altyn-Depe and the Geoksiur Oasis settlements.

In addition, the Illinois Department of Transportation has proposed a route for a new limited access highway on the west side of O ' Hare Airport which would connect with the Jane Addams Tollway at the site of the Des Plaines Oasis.

There is one permanent settlement in the Qattara Depression, the Qara Oasis.

What is believed to be an Egyptian Temple of Heracles in the Bahariya Oasis dates to 21 BC.

There is evidence of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenemhet III in the twelfth dynasty ( about 1800 BCE ) using the natural lake of the Faiyum Oasis as a reservoir to store surpluses of water for use during the dry seasons, the lake swelled annually from flooding of the Nile.

The south western corner of the depression is part of the Siwa Protected Area which protects the wild oasis in and around the Siwa Oasis.

Oasis of Peace ), also known as Wāħat as-Salām () is a cooperative village jointly founded by Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs in an attempt to show that the two peoples can live side by side peacefully, as well as to conduct educational work for peace, equality and understanding between the two peoples.

Oasis, software developed by Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), is designed for converting intercepted audio into searchable text.

It is the site of Lawrence Welk's Desert Oasis Hotel / resort located in the Cathedral Canyon Country Club.

Palm Aire Country Club is home to several smaller sub-communities: Misty Oaks, Vizcaya, Fairview Pointe, Cypress Reach, Oasis, Palm Aire Gardens, & Royal Point.

" In The Wire, Peter Shapiro compared the band favorably to Britpop bands Oasis and Blur, and defended their music against the charge that it is " nothing but the sum total of its arcane reference points.

The song Friends in Low Places made famous by Garth Brooks mentions a bar called " The Oasis " that is named after a now-closed establishment in Concordia.

Coyote Ridge Correctional Facility is actively hiring hundreds of employees, Oasis Custom Homes purchased land across from the High School and is building many new homes in a master-planned community called the Oasis Village Connell, and the school district is just starting the construction of a new elementary school on Clark Street, next to the Oasis Village.

Oasis is a town in Waushara County, Wisconsin, United States.

Oasis is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert.

About 80 km ( 50 mi ) in length and 20 km ( 12 mi ) wide, Siwa Oasis is one of Egypt's most isolated settlements, with 23, 000 people, mostly Berbers-speakers who speak a distinct language of the Berber family known as Siwi.

The Great Sand Sea lies within the desert's plain and extends from the Siwa Oasis to Jilf al Kabir.

The other major oases form a topographic chain of basins extending from the Faiyum Oasis ( sometimes called the Fayyum Depression ) which lies southwest of Cairo, south to the Bahariya, Farafirah, and Dakhilah oases before reaching the country's largest oasis, Kharijah.

* August 21 – Be Here Now, the third album from English rock band Oasis, becomes the fastest selling album in UK history.

Specific influences varied: Blur and Oasis drew from The Kinks and The Beatles, respectively, while Elastica had a fondness for arty punk rock.

In an otherwise highly enthusiastic review of the best-of for the NME, Steve Sutherland criticised the band's " sheer disregard " for their earlier work ; " Just because these songs embarrassed them once they started listening to broadsheet critics and retreated wounded from the big-sales battle with Oasis doesn't mean that we're morons to love them.

The " Britpop movement pre-empted by The Stone Roses and spearheaded by groups like Oasis, Suede and Blur, drew heavily from Morrissey's portrayal of and nostalgia for a bleak urban England of the past.

Many music artists have used the Union flag ranging from rock artists The Who, Freddie Mercury, Morrissey, Oasis, Iron Maiden and Def Leppard, to the pop girl group the Spice Girls.

About five hundred of these tablets have been discovered in the governor's palace at Ayn Asil ( Balat ), and a single example from the site of Ayn al-Gazzarin, both in the Dakhla Oasis.

The band made no live appearances for all of 1996, apart from a solo performance from Ashcroft supporting Oasis in New York.

* Stephen Fry's " Live from the Lighthouse " ( Channel 4, spoof interview with Simon Pegg as an AIDS charity worker and Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher ) 1998

Britpop began to fill the musical and cultural void left after Cobain's death, and Blur's success, along with the rise of a new group from Manchester called Oasis saw Britpop explode for the rest of 1994.

Certain editions also featured a new Oasis live album, taken from the band's final tour.

No Way Sis were a cover band from Glasgow who had a top 40 hit in the UK with " I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing " a cover of the New Seekers song sung in the manner of Oasis.

The Japanese band Little by Little derived their name from the Oasis song of the same name.

RPO players have been involved with many performances away from the classical repertory, including Yanni Live at the Acropolis, a concert held in Greece in 1993, conducted by Shahrdad Rohani ; the Hooked on Classics series of records ; orchestral arrangements of rock music by the likes of Pink Floyd, Elkie Brooks ( on the album Amazing ), Oasis, Queen, George Michael, R. E. M., U2, and ABBA ; the song / album, Art of Life by Japanese rock band X Japan, composed by Yoshiki Hayashi ; the official theme music of the UEFA Champions League ( UEFA Champions League Anthem ), tracks on the British folk metal band Skyclad's 2004 album A Semblance of Normality the Symphonic Rock: A Symphony of Hits 2004 album ; and the BBC Grandstand Theme in 1982 ; Seotaiji Symphony, a concert held in Seoul in 2008, with South Korean rock star Seo Taiji, conducted by Tolga Kashif.

Since Noel's departure from Oasis in August 2009, Liam has said he will continue making music with ex-Oasis members Gem Archer, Andy Bell, drummer Chris Sharrock, recording under the band name Beady Eye.

During recording sessions for the second Oasis album, ( What's the Story ) Morning Glory ?, the brothers had a violent fight involving a cricket bat when Liam invited everyone from a local pub back into the studio while Noel was trying to work.

Oasis have been successfully sued for plagiarism by Neil Innes, ironically himself a member of Beatles-parody band The Rutles sued by McCartney over plagiarism of The Beatles ' songs, as Noel Gallagher's 1994 song Whatever directly lifted parts of its melody from Innes's 1973 song How Sweet to Be an Idiot.

Coming from the same area of Liverpool as The Beatles they're the self-proclaimed new Messiahs of jangle pop, promising the one true path to a world of peace, purity, free love and Oasis.