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  The Agades Cross and the French Armed Forces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The silver crosses referred to generally as Agades Crosses were manufactured by the smiths of the Tuareg tribes of the Sahara.
The true Agades Cross is illustrated below together with a variant design called the Iferouane cross.
For example that of the Garde Républicaine Nomade de la Zone des Sables is based on the cross of Karaga.
www.the153club.org /agades.html   (189 words)

  
  Air, Africa - LoveToKnow 1911
Agades, the capital of the country, which has a circuit of 31 m., is built on the edge of a plateau 250o ft. high, and is supposed to have been founded by the Berbers to serve as a secure magazine for their extensive trade with the Songhoi empire.
In former times Agades was a place of great traffic, and had a population of about 50,000.
The houses, which are built of clay, are low and flat-roofed; and the only buildings of importance are the chief mosque, which is surmounted by a tower 95 ft. high, and the sultan's residence, a massive two-storied structure pierced with small windows.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Air,_Africa   (540 words)

  
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 - EL MUNDO | Suplemento de Viajes 24 - Agades, la puerta del desierto
Agades, que a las doce horas de viaje desde Niamey comienza a perfilarse en el horizonte, es la última amarra que sueltan en su pugna por alcanzar nuevos horizontes.
En las angostas callejuelas del casco antiguo de Agades, se los diferencia de los hausa y de los fulanis no sólo por sus velos y turbantes, sino por la altivez y elegancia de sus movimientos.
Como hace siglos, las caravanas de tuareg siguen viajando de Agades a Bilma para comprar la sal que luego intercambian en otras regiones del país.
www.elmundo.es /viajes/2003/24/1067964438.html   (1435 words)

  
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It runs over 1,300 miles from Elgolea, Algeria, to Agades, Niger, and is the only route across the Sahara presently used with any frequency.
The longest would be from Tammanrasset to Agades, some 600-miles without gas or water.
Leading away from the Niger Custom Post was a sign saying Agades pointing up at the horizon, and a series of fl marker posts about a mile apart, to keep you heading in the correct general direction.
gerry.vanagon.com /files/stories/Crossing-the-Sahara-Part-2.txt   (2342 words)

  
 AGDS : Generic Web Access to Space Data
This is an experience report from the AGADES project which is conducted at the French Space Agency (CNES) in Toulouse, France.
AGADES is the acronym for "Accès Généralisé aux Données Spatiales", Generalized Space Data Access System.
The integration of AGADES in the CIP framework is currently in study.
www.sbg.ac.at /geo/eogeo/authors/levoir/levoir.htm   (633 words)

  
 The Citizen Scientist
Tony is now off to China, and we hope to see more of his photographs when he returns.
A first close up view of Africa out of the jet aircraft’s window during final approach at Agades, Niger.
A beautiful sunset on the Sahara somewhere east of Agades.
www.sas.org /tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-06-30/feature2p/index.html   (252 words)

  
 MITSUBISHI MOTORS/97DAKARÅ`AGADESÅ`DAKAR RALLY /Daily Communique 11
A revised 315 km route from Agades to Oclan brought about a change of leadership in the Dakar Rally today, January 13, as French pair Jean-Pierre Fontenay and Bruno Musmarra moved to the front of the field in their Team Off Road Express Mitsubishi Ralliart Pajero.
The route was changed during the weekend with a new section from Agades to the half-way point of the original stage.
The 10th leg of the Dakar takes the surviving competitors back into Mali with a tough, bivouac-to-bivouac section with no liaison, 400 km of which will be through barren desert with few points of reference for the navigators.
www.sp.dianet.or.jp /mmc/docs5/dakar_e/97dakar/daily11.html   (530 words)

  
 The Development of a design.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This photo shows an Agades cross, a form of folk ornament found among the peoples of North Africa.
Usually made of silver with stamped or engraved patterns, the derivation of this design is unknown, its meaning lost in antiquity.
After all, to the Stone Age cultures the spear or arrow point is a powerful symbol and a result of their highest technology.
www.foxfirejewelers.com /develop/default.html   (623 words)

  
 "Quicksand and the Lone Tree" from Sahara Challenge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The distance to Agades is five hundred and sixty-five miles and the only point of contact between the two places is In Guezzam.
Herds of wild camel were grazing, sometimes we surprised a delicate gazelle, and there were birds too of various kinds.
How quickly this land had deteriorated; what a contrast to the description of it by Barth, in his Travels, where he tells us that Air has tropical vegetation, that there are fertile valleys with good water, that ostriches, lions, giraffes and birds were seen by him and that near Agades he saw monkeys and butterflies.
www.manofthetrees.org /HTMLS/quicksand.htm   (1183 words)

  
 Sahara NIGER CHIRIET ET DUNES DU TENERE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
To the West, the Aïr with its oases : Iferouane, Timia and Agades.
Last season, several tours were made in the Aîr and Tenere : it was noticed that these regions have become quiet again and that local and national authorities were willing to favor the development of tourism.
From Christmas to the end of March, there will be charter flights to Agades.
www.zig-zag.tm.fr /Anglais/Sahara/NIGERCHIRIET-ET-DUNES-DU-TENER.html   (375 words)

  
 MITSUBISHI AUTO GALLERY/'97 Dakar-Agades-Dakar
The 16 day-event took the competitors through the scorching heat of four African countries; Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, and Niger.
The Mitsubishi team took the lead from the start and once they reached the halfway point in Agades in Niger, after more than 3500km competitive driving, only a handful of seconds split the leading three Pajeros.
The going was tough for Mitsubishi with not only rivals Jean-Louis Schlesser and Juha Kleinschmidt's SEAT-powered buggies close behind but pressure from Nissan, Toyota and Korea's Sangyong also threatening to take over the lead.
www.mitsubishi-motors.com /corporate/museum/motorsports/e/1997.html   (296 words)

  
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 Agades, AJY, Niger", airport, hotels, limos, rental cars
Agades - Airport code for the Airport at this city is: AJY
The Airport at Agades is represented by airport code AJY
Agades is located in the country of Niger.
www.quickaid.com /AJY.html   (109 words)

  
 Agades, Niger
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