…abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous…
…a waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand…
…abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous…
…abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous…
…a waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand…
…a waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand…
…an Australian casuarina tree, which typically grows in arid regions…
…a soldier of the 7th British armoured division (with the jerboa as a badge) in the North African desert campaign of 1941-2…
…a flower-like aggregate of crystals of a mineral, occurring in arid areas…
…an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food…
…a desert region to the east of the River Indus, lying in the Rajasthan and Gujarat states of NW India and the Punjab and Sind regions of SE Pakistan…
…a desert region in Western Australia, to the south-east of the Great Sandy Desert. The first European to cross it (1876) was Ernest Giles, who named it after his companion Alfred Gibson, who went missing on an earlier expedition…
…the name for the northeastern Sahara Desert, west of the Nile in Egypt, Libya, and northwestern Sudan…
…a desert in southern California, to the south-east of the Sierra Nevada and north and east of Los Angeles…
…a desert of SW Africa. It extends for 1,900 km (1,200 miles) along the Atlantic coast, from the Curoca River in SW Angola through Namibia to the border between Namibia and South Africa…
…a vast desert in North Africa, extending from the Atlantic in the west to the Red Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean and the Atlas Mountains in the north to the Sahel in the south. The largest desert in the world, it covers an area of about 9,065,000 sq. km (3,500,000 sq. miles). In recent years it has been extending southwards into the Sahel…
…an arid region of North America, comprising SE California and SW Arizona in the US and, in Mexico, much of Baja California and the western part of Sonora…
…the desert in eastern Egypt, between the Nile and the Red Sea…
…an arid region of western Chile, extending roughly 965 km (600 miles) southwards from the Peruvian border…
…a region in southern California and northern Baja California in Mexico. The Salton Sea, the Imperial Valley, and the city of Palm Springs are here…
…a surface layer of closely packed or cemented pebbles, rock fragments, etc., from which fine material has been removed by the wind in arid regions…
…a dark hard film of oxides formed on exposed rock surfaces in arid regions…
…a high, vast, arid plateau in southern Africa north of the Orange River. It comprises most of Botswana with parts in Namibia and South Africa…
…a region in northeastern Arizona that is noted for its colorful eroded landscapes…
…a desert in central Australia, situated between Alice Springs and the Channel Country to the east…
…a desert in the Xinjiang autonomous region of NW China, lying between the Kunlun Shan and Tien Shan mountains and forming the greater part of the Tarim Basin…
…a large tract of desert in north central Western Australia…
…a desert region of Australia, which straddles the boundary between Western Australia and South Australia…
…an island in the Atlantic Ocean, in southeastern Maine, site of Bar Harbor and other resorts. Most of the island is in Acadia National Park…
…(1891–1944), German Field Marshal; known as the Desert Fox. As commander of the Afrika Korps he deployed a series of surprise manoeuvres and succeeded in capturing Tobruk (1942), but was defeated by Montgomery at El Alamein later that year. He was forced to commit suicide after being implicated in the officers' conspiracy against Hitler in 1944…
…a desert in central Asia, to the east of the Caspian Sea, covering much of Turkmenistan. Russian name Karakumykəraˈkumij…
…any of a number of fast-moving active lizards with longitudinal markings and a pointed snout, in particular:…
…a dense shrub with pinkish-lilac flowers and black spotted leaves and fruit, native to arid regions of Australia…
…(1891–1944), German Field Marshal; known as the Desert Fox. As commander of the Afrika Korps he deployed a series of surprise manoeuvres and succeeded in capturing Tobruk (1942), but was defeated by Montgomery at El Alamein later that year. He was forced to commit suicide after being implicated in the officers' conspiracy against Hitler in 1944…
…a small dull-colored nocturnal lizard with large scales or bony plates on the head, occurring from the southwestern US to Central America…
