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44 unusual facts about Mojave desert


22d Operations Group

The Group prepared itself at Muroc Army Air Field in the Mojave Desert in California from 15 December 1941 and began patrols of the west coast.

386th Tactical Fighter Squadron

Deployed to Southern California in early 1943 to the Desert Training Center, trained in light bombing while supporting Army maneuvers in the Mojave Desert until October.

Adenophyllum porophylloides

It is native to the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Alone in the Dark 3

This time, he is called to investigate the disappearance of a film crew at a two-bit ghost town known by the name of Slaughter Gulch located in the Mojave Desert in California.

American Dusky Flycatcher

As non-breeding residents in the south of their migration range, they are passage migrants over the deserts of the southwest US, the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts, where they make their stops along the flyway.

Amos G. Throop

, known for its 360 degree views stretching from the Mojave Desert all the way to the Pacific Ocean, sits on the Pacific Crest Trail and is also named after Mr. Throop.

Antelope Valley of the California High Desert AVA

The Antelope Valley region is an east-facing valley, opening up to the Mojave Desert, with the Tehachapi Mountains to the north and west, and the San Gabriel Mountains, the Sierra Pelona Mountains, and Portal Ridge to the south.

Arctomecon

The three species occur only in the weastern part of the Mojave Desert of North America, and are all uncommon.

Blood in My Eyes

He drives her out to the middle of the Mojave Desert, drags her away from the car, strips her down to her underwear, and drives off, leaving her with only her driver's license (which identifies her as "Jessica Kill").

Brassica tournefortii

Today it is an abundant weed of low deserts including the Sonoran, the Sahara Desert, and Mojave Deserts, and hot inland valleys such as the Coachella and Imperial Valleys of southern California.

Clarence Syvertson

In 1981, NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert was merged with Ames and Syvertson assumed management responsibility for both Ames Moffett and Ames Dryden.

Claudia Luke

She was once the Co-Director of Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, Mojave Desert, CA and Adjunct Professor, University of California.

Cleomella plocasperma

It is native to the Great Basin and Mojave Desert in the western United States, where it grows mainly in wet, alkaline soils such as those around hot springs.

Contra Conspiracy

The plot follows a Hollywood film crew shooting a movie in the Mojave Desert, only to be disrupted by a group of terrorists.

Eulimnadia texana

In the Mojave Desert, standing water occurs for only a short time after it rains.

Forrest Gander

Born in the Mojave Desert, he grew up in Virginia and has degrees in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays, and English literature.

Go Back to Your Mama

Scouting for shooting locations for the music video, Lizza and AlecZero came across a lonely church in Mojave Desert and met with its Minister, Oscar Castaneda.

Kit fox

The desert kit fox (V. m. arsipus) lives in the Mojave Desert.

Larrea

One of the more notable species is the Creosote Bush (L. tridentata) of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico The King Clone ring in the Mojave Desert is a Creosote Bush clonal colony estimated to be 11,700 years old.

Legend of the Lost

The plot is vaguely similar to another of Wayne’s movies crossing the Mojave Desert.

Linanthus bigelovii

It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico where it grows mainly in dry habitat, such as the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts.

Liocranid sac spider

Two species in the North American genus Neoanagraphis are found in often hyperarid conditions in the Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts.

Lunsford E. Oliver

MG Oliver led the division throughout the remainder of the war, including training in the Mojave Desert near Needles, California through March 1943, the Tennessee Maneuvers through the Summer, and final validation and reorganization of the division at Pine Camp (Now Fort Drum, New York) through the Winter into early 1944.

Marin Sais

In December 1915, Sais was filming a lead role on location in the Mojave Desert when a sudden sandstorm blew in.

Max Rafferty

Rafferty's first job, during World War II, was as a classroom teacher in the Trona Unified School District in the Mojave Desert portion of San Bernardino County, California.

Mohave people

Mohave or Mojave (Mojave: 'Aha Makhav) are a Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.

Mohavea breviflora

It is native to the southwestern United States, including the Mojave Desert and surrounding areas.

Mojave Moon

Al McCord is hanging out at his favourite restaurant when he meets an attractive young woman, Ellie, who is looking for a ride from the city into the Mojave Desert, where her mother Julie lives.

Mojave Solar Park

The Mojave Solar Park was a solar thermal power facility contracted to be constructed in the Mojave Desert in California.

Nata Piaskowski

Subsequent photo trips included Guatemala (1980) and California's Mojave Desert (1981).

Palafoxia

These are drought-tolerant, annual herbs growing on sandy plains, dunes, deserts (Mojave desert, Sonoran desert) and rangeland, native to North America and Mexico.

Piermont, New Hampshire

Aaron Lane, who grew up in Piermont, was the first permanent settler in the Mojave Desert area now known as Victorville, California.

Prodoxus gypsicolor

It is found in the Kingston Range of the north-eastern Mojave Desert and possibly the Grand Canyon National Park in central-northern Arizona.

Prodoxus weethumpi

It is found in the south-western and north-eastern edges of the Mojave Desert in southern California and Nevada, north-western Arizona and south-western Utah.

Round Up

The video, directed by Little X and shot in the Mojave Desert, is a remake of the 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise, and features May and Cantrell stealing money from a gas station, sleeping in a motel, running away from police, and driving a helicopter at the end of the video to escape from the local police.

Ruth DeEtte Simpson

Although she pursued many important archeological projects, mostly in the Mojave Desert in California, she spent much of her life working with Dr. Louis Leakey on the Calico Early Man Site in Yermo, California, however this lead to disagreements between Louis and her wife.

Sidney Garfield

In 1933, Garfield opened his Contractor's General Hospital in the Mojave Desert, east of Los Angeles, California.

Tegeticula antithetica

It is found in the Mojave Desert of the North American southwest, specifically southern California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and western Arizona.

Tetradymia glabrata

It is native to the western United States, especially the Great Basin and Mojave Desert.

The Glen

I pulled over, jumped up on the warm hood of my rusty '77 Malibu, and my tired eyes watched night fall over the Mojave Desert for the first time.

UFO religion

He claimed to have physically encountered a flying saucer in 1954 at Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert of California.

Uncle Fred

He was a younger son, and therefore not expected to inherit his present title; he spent much time in America, working variously as a cowboy, a soda jerk, a newspaper reporter and a prospector in the Mojave Desert, before a number of deaths in the family left him heir to the Earldom.

What Took You So Long?

The music video for the single was directed by Greg Masuak and shot in the Mojave Desert, California.

You Get Me

The music video for "You Get Me" was filmed in August 2003 the El Mirage Lake of the Mojave Desert.


Desert kangaroo rat

The desert kangaroo rat is found in arid parts of southwestern North America, including Death Valley, the Great Basin, the Mojave Desert, and portions of the Sonoran Desert.

Lake Mead National Recreation Area

Three of the four desert ecosystems found in the United States — the Mojave Desert, the Great Basin Desert, and the Sonoran Desert — meet in Lake Mead NRA.

Mojave Road

The Mojave Road or Mojave Trail is a historic route and present day dirt road across what is now the Mojave National Preserve in the Mojave Desert in the United States.

Nama demissum

Purple mat, Nama demissum, grows in the American desert southwest, such as the Mojave Desert, and parts of Mexico on dry sandy or gravelly flats from 2000' to 5500' in creosote bush scrub.

Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway

On November 1, 1905, the SFP&P began operating the Arizona & California Railway that ran from a connection with the Santa Fe Railway in the Mojave Desert at Cadiz, California, to a connection with SFP&P at Matthie, Arizona, (located between Prescott and Wickenburg).

Silver Lake, San Bernardino County, California

Silver Lake is a town that existed near the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, six miles north of Baker, in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California.

Tout près du bonheur

The music video was supposed to be shot in the Mojave Desert but because of Dion's health conditions it was directed May 8, 2006 at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas by Ivan Grbovic.