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Western and southern Iraq is a vast desert region covering some 64. 900 square miles ( 168. 000 square km ), almost two-fifths of the country.
After a ten-day stay in Taghaza, the caravan set out for the oasis of Tasarahla ( probably Bir al-Ksaib ) where it stopped for three days in preparation for the last and most difficult leg of the journey across the vast desert.
Aksai Chin is a vast high-altitude desert of salt that reaches altitudes up to.
The climate of the region is semi-arid with a vast desert expanse in the north which gives way to a region of marshes, lagoons, mud flats, and reed banks in the south.
Among the rivers and streams, the Sumerian people built the first cities along with irrigation canals which were separated by vast stretches of open desert or swamp where nomadic tribes roamed.
* Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, United States, what was once an oasis in the vast Mojave desert has over the years grown into a metropolitan area.
The extensive rainforests of the Carboniferous had disappeared, leaving behind vast regions of arid desert within the continental interior.
When Alexander the Great reached Egypt, he put his whole vast enterprise on hold, while he made his way with a small band deep into the Libyan desert, to consult the oracle of Ammun.
North of the desert ranges and east of the Al Ghab depression lie the vast steppes of the plateau, where cloudless skies and high daytime temperatures prevail during the summer, but frosts, at times severe, are common from November to March.
" One element in Shaka's destruction was to create a vast artificial desert around his domain ... ' to make the destruction complete, organized bands of Zulu murderers regularly patrolled the waste, hunting for any stray men and running them down like wild pig.
The images of sandy wastelands conjured up by terms like " desert " were tempered by the many reports of vast herds of millions of Plains Bison that somehow managed to live in this " desert ".
Prior to 6000 years ago, evidently the vast Sahara region to the south was better watered, more a savanna which could support herds ; yet then a desiccation process set in, leaving a more parched desert as it is today.
Further south lies the Sahara desert ; here Tunisia touches the north-eastern edge of vast sand dunes comprising the Grand Erg Oriental.
The plateaus gradually descend toward the northeast to the barren El Djouf, or " Empty Quarter ," a vast region of large sand dunes that merges into the Sahara desert.
The area is largely a vast high-altitude desert including some salt lakes from to above sea level.
Many people think that Arizona is a vast, open desert without vegetation.
In a land of vast, arid plains and desert, the contrasting lush fertility of mountain-ash forest is particularly dear to nature lovers.
This sparsely settled, mostly desert region lies partially on the Loess Plateau and in the vast plain of the Yellow River, and features the Great Wall of China along its northeastern boundary.
It is a vast desert wilderness stretching from Yemen to the Persian Gulf and Oman to Jordan and Iraq.
At an altitude of, the rock landscapes yield the place to the ar-Ruba ' Al-Khali, vast wide of sand of the Arabian desert, whose extreme southern point crosses the centre of Yemen.
By 180 million years ago, the climate continued to change and the area became a desert featuring vast expanses of huge shifting sand dunes.
Mohammed al-Mahdi had the authority of a sovereign in a vast but almost empty desert.
After having read Hussein Bey's " Lost Oasis " he spent one such expedition in 1929 using a Ford Model A automobile and two Ford lorries exploring the vast swathe of desert from Cairo to Ain Dalla which was an area reputed to contain the mythical city of Zerzura.

vast and wasteland
Still farther south a pastoral zone of sparse grassland gives way to the vast Sahara Desert, a barren wasteland of rocky plateaus and sand.
Historian Martin Duberman writes, " The decades preceding Stonewall ... continue to be regarded by most gays and lesbians as some vast neolithic wasteland ".
The Minnow was named in reference to Newton Minow, chairman of the U. S. FCC, who was most famous for describing television as " a vast wasteland ".
In the speech, Minow referred to American commercial television programming as a " vast wasteland " and advocated for programming in the public interest.
I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.
The phrase " vast wasteland " was suggested to Minow by his friend, reporter and freelance writer John Bartlow Martin.
Martin had recently watched twenty consecutive hours of television as research for a magazine piece, and concluded it was " a vast wasteland of junk.
Minow often remarks that the two words best remembered from the speech are " vast wasteland ," but the two words he wishes would be remembered are " public interest.
* May 9-Newton Minow, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, gives the " vast wasteland speech " to the National Association of Broadcasters, telling them that they could do a better job of serving " the public interest.
:" a wasteland six miles ( 10 km ) long, stretching from where he stood all the way north to 181st street ... The ' park ' was nothing but a vast low-lying mass of dirt and mud.
The first layer, Avernus, is a vast charred wasteland of rubble over which the iron towers of the Dukes of Hell stand.
After completion a vast corridor of wasteland remained below the motorway.
The sketch ends with the ultimate tourist attraction, the Hydrogen Bomb, which turns Los Voraces into a vast, barren wasteland.
The area was a vast stretch of common land, a lonely wasteland unsuitable for most forms of agriculture with scant population.
Forty years prior to the events of the series, the world was turned into a vast desert wasteland and the survivors were left without memories.
" Minow called TV a " vast wasteland "; the phrase was picked up by the press and resulted in bad publicity for the networks and for the television industry as a whole.
Minow had criticized poor programs and weak network schedules, calling television a " vast wasteland " and calling on television executives to try harder to develop innovative and interesting television programs.
* Wasteland Speech, a 1961 speech by FCC chairman Newton N. Minow in which he compares television to " a vast wasteland "
His speech referring to television as a " vast wasteland " is cited even as the speech has passed its 50th anniversary.
His phrase, " vast wasteland ", is remembered years after the speech after he said,
While some applauded his " vast wasteland " assault on commercial television as a welcome criticism of excessive violence and frivolity, others criticized it as an elitist, snobbish attack on programming that many viewers enjoyed and as government interference with private enterprise.
Still dreaming of finding his wife and abused as a worthless beggar and as a " Japanese devil " by the Chinese peasants of whom he begs mercy, Kaji faces his ultimate trial in the vast winter wasteland.
This was likely a CBS counter to Newton N. Minow ’ s speech referring to television as a vast wasteland.
Minow was chairman of the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) in 1961, and is noted for a speech in which he called American television " a vast wasteland ".

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