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unusual facts about Sahara desert



African Sacred Ibis

A wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae, the Sacred Ibis breeds in sub-Saharan Africa, southeastern Iraq, and formerly in Egypt, where it was venerated and often mummified as a symbol of the god Thoth.

Attack on Cloudbase

While on regular patrol, Symphony Angel is forced to eject into the Sahara Desert following an explosion to the rear of her interceptor's cockpit.

Dakar 2: The World's Ultimate Rally

The game begins in rural Paris and ends on a beach in Dakar, Senegal, with 11 stages in between, including tracks in the Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains.

Equine encephalosis virus

Intriguingly, Morocco remains free of the epidemic, suggesting the Sahara desert may be acting as a natural barrier to the progression of the disease.

Gassi Touil

Gassi Touil is a large natural gas field in the Sahara Desert region of Grand Erg Oriental of Algeria, within the commune of Hassi Messaoud.

History of Western Sahara

In pre-colonial times, the tribal areas of the Sahara desert was generally considered bled es-Siba or "the land of dissidence" by the authorities of the established Islamic states of North Africa, such as the Sultan of Morocco and the Deys of Algeria.

LDV Pilot

A first generation Sherpa van made an appearance in the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me which was driven by the villainous Jaws (Richard Kiel) on a journey through the Sahara Desert, with Bond (Roger Moore) and his partner Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) hiding in the back in their quest to recover a microfilm crucial to their mission.

Quiller

Fourth, in contrast to the glamorous lifestyles depicted in the James Bond canon, Quiller's operational locations are almost always unfriendly (Warsaw in winter, the Sahara Desert under the blazing sun, etc.) and he is aware that his expenses will be scrutinised minutely.

Rhim gazelle

The rhim or rheem gazelle is found in isolated pockets across the central Sahara Desert.

Scott Ragsdale

Notable physical achievements include summiting Mount Kilimanjaro, and completing the Marathon des Sables, a 7-day race across the Sahara desert - considered the toughest foot race in the world.

Ted Lewin

Lewin and his wife Betsy Lewin drew on their travels to exotic places such as the Amazon River, Botswana, Egypt, Lapland, the Sahara Desert, and India when collaborating on their many books.

Termit Massif Reserve

WWF has classified this reserve as part of the larger ecoregion of the South Saharan Steppe and Woodlands ecoregion that includes a strip of desert land which extends from central Mauritania, Mali, southwestern Algeria, Niger, Chad, and across Sudan to the Red Sea, and borders southern fringes of the Sahara Desert.

The Little Prince and the Aviator

Based on the classic book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the musical deviates from the original in that aviator Toni, whose plane crashes in the Sahara Desert, explicitly is real-life author Saint-Exupéry, and the plot alternates flashbacks to actual events in his life with his interaction with the fictional Little Prince, a refugee from Asteroid B6-12.

Water for Life

"Water for Life" was a concert given by French electronic musician Jean Michel Jarre on the night of December 16, 2006 amidst the dunes of the Sahara desert at Merzouga, Morocco.


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Al-Kabir mosque

Atiq Mosque, Awjila, a mosque in the oasis village of Awjila in the Sahara desert of the Cyrenaica region of eastern Libya

Alvis Stalwart

An "Alvis Stalwart" is used in the fourth Modesty Blaise novel (A Taste for Death) by the characters to escape from the Roman city of Mus and cross the Sahara desert to the North African coast.

Auto-Saharan Companies

Auto-Saharan Companies (in Italian Compagnie Auto-Avio Sahariane (sometimes referred to as "La Compagnia") were special Italian units of desert warfare operating in Libya and Sahara desert during Second World War.

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.

Brian Milton

His first major expedition took place in 1968 when he drove a 1937 Austin 7 Ruby across the Sahara Desert to meet his fiancée.

Greek–Punic Wars

Carthage had also sponsored the journey of Mago Barca (not to be confused with Mago Barca, Hannibal Barca's brother) across the Sahara Desert to Cyrenaica, and Hanno the Navigator's journey down the African coast.

Hare-Abian Nights

Bugs also recounts his encounter with Yosemite Sam in the Sahara Desert in 1955's Sahara Hare, referring to Sam as "the stupidest character of them all", while recounting Sam's unsuccessful attempts to enter a desert fort.

Kebira

Kebira Crater,the name that has recently been proposed for a circular topographic feature in the Sahara desert

Luke Piper

Luke Piper has travelled around the world to paint, including Nairobi via Western Sahara and Zaire in 1995, the Sahara desert in 1999 and 2000, Nepal and the Himalayas in 1998 and 2000–01, and Australia, New Zealand and Fiji in 2002–03.

Olavi Paavolainen

The poet speeds through the countries of Europe in his red Fiat car, which explodes into a star over the Sahara Desert.

Sahara Desert ant

While no known land animal can live permanently at a temperature over 50°C, Sahara desert ants can sustain a body temperature well above 50°C with surface temperatures of up to 70°C.

Sahul

Sahel, an area in Africa between the Sahara desert and the Sudanian Savanna

Western Desert

Libyan Desert, in the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert

World Safari

Includes a motorcycle trip across Australia, living with Buddhist monks, selling life insurance on the side of the road, and getting lost in a two-cylinder DAF van while crossing the Sahara desert.