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 no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

While she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.

While they were told that there were some normal people who reacted differently than they had, they were also informed that there were other normals who reacted as they had.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.

While it had long been known in general, that `` the public is always wrong '', the use of odd-lot indices now puts the adage on a statistical basis.

While Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.

While not all Southerners saw themselves as fighting to preserve slavery, most of the officers and over a third of the rank and file in Lee's army had close family ties to slavery.

While this increased Antoninus ’ s popularity, the frugal emperor had to debase the Roman currency.

While working on a second book, Alcott and Peabody had a falling out and Conversations with Children on the Gospels was prepared with help from Peabody's sister Sophia, published at the end of December 1836.

While Agrippina lived there or when she went on short visits to Rome, Nero had sent people to annoy her.

While he was heir-apparent — 1865 to 1881 — Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government.