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3 unusual facts about Western Desert


Al-Bagawat

The Necropolis of Al-Bagawat is located in the Western Desert in Kharga Oasis which is one of the largest oases in Egypt and is 34 m below sea level.

Western Desert

Western Desert cultural bloc or just Western Desert, a cultural region in Australia

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


Gentlemen, history returns

In the second verse the song describe the participation of the Palmach in the battls of El Alamein the Western Desert, it also describe the plan to defend the Jewish settlement in Palestine from the Nazi Afrika Korps in case of a British withdraw from Egypt with improvised weapon.

Long-range penetration

Though the concept of long range penetration is as old as war itself, in the modern era it is recognized as starting with Major Ralph Alger Bagnold with his 1940 Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) in the Western Desert and Orde Wingate with his Chindits in Burma in World War II.

Mona Rockman Napaljarri

Mona Rockman Napaljarri (born c. 1924) is a Warlpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region.

Ngintaka

The Ngintaka is one of several Creation Ancestor Beings of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Western Desert Speaking Original people of Central Australia.


see also

Ada Andy Napaltjarri

'Napaljarri' (in Warlpiri) or 'Napaltjarri' (in Western Desert dialects) is a skin name, one of sixteen used to denote the subsections or subgroups in the kinship system of central Australian Indigenous people.

Alan Moorehead

A journal of his experiences, while General Claude Auchinleck was in command, during the second year of WW II, mostly in the Western Desert of North Africa.

Fourth Dynasty of Egypt

The names of Khufu and Djedefre were inscribed in gneiss quarries in the Western Desert 65 km to the northwest of Abu Simbel; objects dated to the reigns of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure have been uncovered at Byblos.

Josepha Petrick Kemarre

In the western desert communities such as Utopia, Kintore, Yuendumu, Balgo, and on the outstations, people were beginning to create art works expressly for exhibition and sale.

Land mines in North Africa

One of United Nations's missions estimated that there are 19.7 million mines in the western desert of Egypt.

Mona Rockman Napaljarri

Napaljarri (in Warlpiri) or Napaltjarri (in Western Desert dialects) is a skin name, one of sixteen used to denote the subsections or subgroups in the kinship system of central Australian Indigenous people.

Northwest African Air Forces

The sole reference to the 12th Air Force among the higher tier commands was Brigadier General Edwin House's XII Air Support Command which along with Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst's Western Desert Air Force, Air Commodore Laurence Sinclair's Tactical Bomber Force, and Air Commodore Sir Kenneth Cross' No. 242 Group, became subordinate commands of Coningham's NATAF.

Richard Clutterbuck

After Dunkirk, he went through both the Western Desert and Italian campaigns.

Tjunkiya Napaltjarri

In the western desert communities such as Kintore, Yuendumu, Balgo, and on the outstations, people were beginning to create art works expressly for exhibition and sale.

Western Desert Campaign

Following the British defeats in Greece and Crete, the Western Desert was a significant avenue for Churchill and the British army to continue the fight against Germany, and therefore was central to the war effort.

Wintjiya Napaltjarri

Napaljarri (in Warlpiri) or Napaltjarri (in Western Desert dialects) is a skin name, one of sixteen used to denote the subsections or subgroups in the kinship system of central Australian Indigenous people.