While the two are heading a caravan from Salalah, Oman, they cross the border into Yemen and find the unexplored desert area that the Necronomicon calls " Roba el Ehaliyeh " or " Roba el Khaliyeh " — presumably a reference to the Empty Quarter or " Rub al Khali ".

While a flood will kill most plants living low on the ground in a certain area, if there is rice there, it will thrive in the wet conditions.

While there is an official locality named Akibahara, which is also 秋葉原 in kanji, nearby ( as part of Taitō-ku ), the area known to most people as Akihabara ( including the railway station of the same name ) also include Soto-Kanda, a part of Chiyoda-ku.

While some have theorized that unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in the area, such anomalies have not been found.

While the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is in transition from an industrial to a service-based economy, the rest of Cape Breton Island outside of the industrial area surrounding Sydney-Glace Bay has been more stable, with a mixture of fishing, forestry, small-scale agriculture, and tourism.

While there is no prohibition in the area of the didgeridoo's origin, such restrictions have been applied by other Indigenous communities.

While Belarusian and Southern Russian form a continuous area, making it virtually impossible to draw a line between two languages.

While most of the Centers are located around the Washington, D. C., area as part of the Headquarters divisions, two offices – the Office of Regulatory Affairs ( ORA ) and the Office of Criminal Investigations ( OCI ) – are primarily field offices with a workforce spread across the country.

While the rest of Europe was cooling, the area around Gibraltar back then resembled a European Serengeti.

While spending most of his time in the provinces of the Rhine area ( Germania Inferior, Germania Superior, Raetia, Noricum ), it is almost certain that, during 253 to 258, Gallienus visited the Danube area and Illyricum.

While the Spanish made significant conquests in the southern half of the area, they had less success in the Caribbean section, on the north.

While the range of two hellbenders may overlap, they are noted as rarely being present in the overlapping area when the other salamander is in the area.

While the final victory in Italy and the conquest of the coast of southern Spain significantly enlarged the area over which the Empire could project its power and influence, and while they must have contributed to the Empire's prestige, most of the conquests proved ephemeral.

While there are only of land, of water area is included in the Refuge.

While in prison on another charge, her husband, Peter Reyn-Bardt, had boasted that he had killed his wife and buried her in the back garden of their bungalow, which was on the edge of the area of mossland where peat was being dug.

While relatively few parchments ( or codices ) of the Mixtec and Aztec cultures of the Post-Classic period survive, progress has been made in the area of Maya archaeology and epigraphy.

While heavy machine guns such as the Maxim gun and the Vickers gun were fearsome defensive weapons in a built-up emplacement, they were very hard to move to a new position if the army had advanced to a new area, or if it had to fall back.

While humans are allowed to swim with manatees in one area of Florida, there have been numerous charges of people harassing and disturbing the manatees.

While it has since become clear that an index ( search engine ) is the most expedient entre into unfamiliar subject matter, associational links have remained an effective navigational method for obtaining intensive coverage of a subject area under study.

While the city government wanted the squatters out to build a parking garage, most of the population wanted affordable housing to be built in the area.

While pressure may be measured in any unit of force divided by any unit of area, the SI unit of pressure ( the newton per square metre ) is called the pascal ( Pa ) after the seventeenth-century philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal.

While the Sheriff of Nottingham and the town itself appear in early ballads, and Sherwood is specifically mentioned in the early ballad Robin Hood and the Monk, certain of the original ballads ( even those with Nottingham references ) locate Robin on occasion in Barnsdale ( the area between Pontefract and Doncaster ), approximately fifty miles north of Nottingham, in the county of Yorkshire ; furthermore, it has been suggested that the ballads placed in this area are far more geographically specific and accurate.

While his original writings demonstrate that he had a sincere passion for the seven liberal arts ( grammar, rhetoric, logic, mathematics, geometry, music, and astronomy ), his work in Quaestiones naturales illustrated a more encompassing dedication to subjects such as physics, the natural sciences, and possibly even metaphysics.

While the town of Ridgefield is in itself relatively modest in size, the geographic area that is locally also called Ridgefield is quite a bit larger, extending from the Columbia River to its immediate west, the Lewis River to the north, several miles past Interstate 5 to the east, and south nearly to Vancouver, Washington, encompassing both the Clark County Fairgrounds and the Amphitheater at Clark County.

While the modern city of Tōno was created in 1954, the area encompassing the city has been occupied since Jomon times.

While it was agreed that the third to fifth freedoms shall be negotiated between states, the International Air Transport Agreement ( or " Five Freedoms Agreement ") was also opened for signatures, encompassing the first five freedoms.

*" While a politics of inclusion is driven by an ambition for universal representation ( of all women's interests ), a politics of partiality does away with that ambition and accepts the principle that feminism can never ever be an encompassing political home for all women, not just because different groups of women have different and sometimes conflicting interests, but, more radically, because for many groups of ' other ' women other interests, other identifications are sometimes more important and politically pressing than, or even incompatible with, those related to their being women.

While not the only group to do so, they insisted upon the Jewish right to sovereignty over the whole territory of Eretz Yisrael ( originally encompassing all of Mandatory Palestine ).

While the focus of the convention is centered on anime fandom and screenings of films and television series, many other activities take place encompassing various segments of geek and Japanese pop culture.

While mon is an encompassing term that may refer to any such device, kamon and mondokoro refer specifically to emblems used to identify a family.

While tachi ( pronounced dachi when used in a compound ) refers to the position of the body from the waist down, kamae refers to the posture of the entire body, as well as encompassing one's mental posture ( i. e., one's attitude ).

While the traditional view of Roman artists is that they often borrowed from, and copied Greek precedents ( much of the Greek sculpture known today is in the form of Roman marble copies ), more recent analysis has indicated that Roman art is a highly creative pastiche relying heavily on Greek models but also encompassing Etruscan, native Italic, and even Egyptian visual culture.

While others honor what they refer to as " the Goddess ", which is not necessarily seen as monotheistic, but is often understood to be an inclusive, encompassing term incorporating many goddesses in many different cultures.

While most traditions discourage celibacy, all encourage strict chastity and modesty with regards to any relationships across gender lines, holding forth that intimacy as perceived within Islam ( encompassing a swath of life more broad than strictly sex ) is to be reserved for marriage.

While Ananda Shankar was a musician and music composer who trained with Dr. Lalmani Misra rather than his uncle, Ravi Shankar, and in time became known for his fusion music, encompassing both Western and Indian music styles.

While most traditions discourage celibacy, all encourage strict chastity and modesty with regards to any relationships across gender lines, holding forth that intimacy as perceived within Islam -- encompassing a swathe of life more broad than strictly sex — is largely to be reserved for marriage.

While encompassing just one third of a percent of Earth ’ s landmass, approximately the size of West Virginia, Costa Rica contains four percent of species estimated to exist on the planet.

While Kingston and Montego Bay are home to a number of retail stores, including American fast-food franchises such as Domino's, Burger King, and KFC, the majority of the towns in the interior of the country, such as Mandeville, May Pen, and Spanish Town, have small shops, public markets, and temporary roadside stands.

* August 11 – While conducting a siege against the Song Dynasty city known as Fishing Town in the province of Chongqing, China, the Mongol Khagan, Mongke Khan, dies in the nearby hills.

While Lifford is the County Town, Letterkenny is by far the largest town in the county with a population of 19, 588.

While the band did covers, they also played some of Morrison's early songs, such as " Could You Would You ", which he had written in Camden Town while touring with The Manhattan Showband.

While in Ryan's Hope she also played the role of " Emily " in the American Shakespeare Theatre production of Our Town in Stratford, Connecticut.

While the Tennessee Valley did not have large Native American settlements at the time of the first white settlers, there was a Cherokee town named " Crow Town " near where Scottsboro is located today.

While New Preston village once had its own post office, it is now served by a combined New Preston-Marble Dale post office, which is located in Marble Dale, and also serves the southern portion of the Town of Warren.

" While Osage villages were moved quite often ( according to weather, hunting conditions, and sanitary conditions ) Little Town Above was generally located on the bluff overlooking the Neosho River, where Oswego sits today.

While still part of Massachusetts, the town was granted as Baker's Town after Captain Thomas Baker in 1736.

While applicable to the whole Adirondack Park, Dr. Kudish made extensive use of the Town of Brighton and the surrounding area.

While it eventually drove smaller stores from Main Street, it remains a substantial part of the village's tax base and a major draw for consumers from outside not only Walden but the Town of Montgomery ( particularly the nearby hamlet of Wallkill, which has no large retailers of its own ), despite the openings of chain supermarkets in several nearby communities.

While the hamlet of Carmel is the seat of the county government, Mahopac, the largest population center in the town of Carmel, hosts the Town Hall.

While the city and county of Delaware are named for the Delaware tribe, the city of Delaware itself was founded on a Mingo village called Pluggy's Town.

While " Mount Vernon " -- drawn from the Mount Vernon plantation, the home of George Washington located south of Alexandria -- is often used locally to refer to the entire unincorporated area between Old Town Alexandria and Fort Belvoir, Mount Vernon as defined by the Census Bureau encompasses only the part of it coextensive with Alexandria ZIP code 22309, bounded by the Potomac River to the south, Fort Belvoir to the west, Huntley Meadows Park to the north, and Little Hunting Creek to the east.

While a small number of towns will also allow the constables to perform road traffic control and event security functions, most strictly prohibit their constables from acting in any official capacity on behalf of the Town.

While the architecture of the town reflects construction by volume housebuilders, the town is a regular winner of the Best Kept Small Town title.

While the painterly handling of the works inspired comparison to Impressionism, and the emotional tone suggested a narrative more akin to genre painting, specifically Degas's Interior, the documentary realism of the Camden Town paintings was without precedent in British art.

While George Town does not have a true dry season, its driest months are from December through February.

While at Leeds United, he spent time on loan at Swindon Town to gain experience as a first-team player.

While still a student at the University of Cape Town, where he studied anthropology, Stanley worked for the archival department of the South African College of Music, filming tribal dance and initiation rituals.

While at Buckley, Perry was featured as George Gibbs in Our Town and appeared as a junior in a production of The Miracle Worker.

While the African Jazz of the north of South Africa was being promoted in Johannesburg, musicians in Cape Town were awakening to their jazz heritage.

While the Town of Liberty was incorporated in 1807, the Village of Liberty was not incorporated as a separate entity until 1870.

While the Town of Quantico was rapidly growing as a fishing village, excursion center and a shipbuilding center in early 1917, the town was not large or significant, and was suffering many financial difficulties.