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		Although both varieties of sand produce unexpectedly pure acoustic emissions when sheared, they differ in their frequency range and duration of emission, as well as the environment in which they tend to be found.
		Specifically, wind-driven saltation of sand (the bouncing of grains upon a granular surface) across the desert floor increasingly rounds off granular asperities the further the sand is blown (Sharp, 1966).
		While the two modes of acoustic output from sand may be inherently connected and mostly governed by the method of shearing, the actual onset of acoustical activity in a sand sample probably is controlled by certain intrinsic grain parameters.
	www-personal.engin.umich.edu /~nori/boom/RMP.html (9158 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Egypt
		The ancient Egyptians never had eras in the usual sense of the word, i.e., epochs from which all successive years are counted regardless of political or other changes in the life of the nation.
		the Egyptians proper), Laabim (the Libyans), Naphtûchim (the inhabitants of No-Phtah, or Memphis), Patrûsim (the inhabitants of the To-rêsi, i.e.
		The earliest specimens of Egyptian literature are the so-called Pyramid Texts engraved on the walls of the halls and rooms of the pyramids of Unis (Fifth Dynasty) and Teti II, Pepi I, Mernere, and Pepi II (Sixth Dynasty).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05329b.htm (18093 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Desert Glass: An Enigma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In December 1932, an Egyptian Desert Survey expedition led by P. Clayton was sent southwest from Cairo to study the previously unexplored regions of the Egyptian Sand Sea, north of a broad plateau, the Gilf Kebir.
		For nearly 10,000 years, the Sahara, of which the Great Erg or Sand Sea is a part, has been a hot, forbidding land, unattractive in most regions to human habitation.
		But 50,000 years ago, what is today the Sand Sea may have closely resembled the Mediterranean environment of modern Greece and was thus more habitable.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/197905/desert.glass-an.enigma.htm (2121 words)

	Diving in Holy Water: The Egyptian Red Sea
		I saw a barren, arid landscape, filled with desert sand, and stone mountains in hues of gold and red, bleed into the clear, sparkling blue waters of the Red Sea.
		It is said that on special days when the setting sun starts to disappear under a perfectly calm sea, the sun’s rays reflect off the towering red mountains and stain the waters a brilliant shade of crimson.
		The arid climate and semi-closed basin of the Red Sea causes evaporation to be much greater than the rainfall, making the Red Sea the saltiest body of water in the world still attached to an open ocean.
	www.skin-diver.com /Features/Feature4/redsea_sep00.asp (2177 words)

	Flotsam On The Great Sand Sea
		One of the strangest mysteries nestled among the giant dunes of the Egyptian Sahara was not recognized by modern scientists until 1932.
		In December of that year, P. Clayton, a surveyor for the Egyptian Geological Survey, was driving among the dunes near the Saad Plateau when he heard his tires crunch on something that wasn't sand.
		Prehistoric humans had made knives and other sharp-edged tools from it; the ancient Egyptians had carved a scarab from LDG and deposited it in Tutankhamen's tomb.
	www.science-frontiers.com /sf126/sf126p06.htm (550 words)

	Tourists quit bomb-hit Egyptian resort \| WORLD \| NEWS \| tvnz.co.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Egyptian police stepped up roadblocks around the town at the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula and detained 93 people who might have information about the bombers.
		Most of the dead are Egyptians, but among the victims were seven non-Egyptians, including a Czech and an Italian, the Tourism Ministry said.
		Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Saturday the attacks - targeting a showpiece of Egypt's tourism industry - would serve only to stiffen his resolve to combat militants.
	tvnz.co.nz /view/page/411366/599764 (648 words)

	Egyptian Armor
		Although the Egyptian Army was transferred to the Egyptian government, Britain remained in control through the British Inspector-General.
		The frontier was in Egyptian hands, in accordance with the treaty and the British strategy not to provoke the Italians.
		The Italian invasion of Egypt began on 13 September 1940 and Egyptian troops along the frontier were soon withdrawn as a result of Italian political moves intended to placate the Egyptian government and British doubts as to their reliability.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~akirk/tanks/egypt/Egypt.html (719 words)

	Salon Travel \| Be your own donkey
		Unlike the rest of the Libyan Desert, where blowing sands mix with dry buttes and rocky moonscape, the Great Sand Sea is nothing but dunes.
		Still within sight of the oasis, the desert sand was abuzz with activity: shiny blue beetles, fat fl flies, faded pink garbage bags.
		As recently as 50 years ago, explorers in this part of the Egyptian desert were likely to find all sorts of artifacts preserved in the sand, from flint knives to broken ostrich shells to rock paintings.
	archive.salon.com /travel/diary/pott/2000/03/28/desert/index2.html (1178 words)

	New Zealand's source for World News on Stuff.co.nz: Tourists quit bomb-hit Egyptian resort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ON GUARD: An Egyptian policeman guards the old market after it was destroyed by a bomb in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
		Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on the weekend the attacks - targeting a showpiece of Egypt's tourism industry - would serve only to stiffen his resolve to combat militants.
		An Egyptian Tourism Ministry spokeswoman said it was too early to tell how hard the attacks would affect Egypt's $US6.6 billion tourism industry, which employs more than 1 million.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3356141a12,00.html (813 words)

	Zarzora Photo Gallery
		Traveling along the edge of the Great Selima Sand Sheet, the expedition placed a memorial for the late Samir Lama at Sugar-loaf Hill before returning to Abu Minqar, through the dunes of the Sand Sea, examining the potential routes amongst the dunes.
		The Great Sand Sea of Egypt is a massive dune-field, the size of England.
		A wide variety of journeys have been organized, including "Sailing a Sea of Sands", "In the foot-steps of Gerhard Rohlfs", "In Search for the Lost Persian Army", "In Search for the legendary Zarzora Oasis", "Tracing Clayton", "The Riddle of the Silica Glass", and "Documenting the relics of the Long Range Desert Group".
	www.zarzora.com /gallery/album03/DSC03800 (1211 words)

	Egyptian Sand Sea -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Egyptian Sand Sea -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Egyptian Sand Sea is located in (The second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean) Africa's (The northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan) Libyan Desert.
		The dunes were created by the (Air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure) wind.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/eg/egyptian_sand_sea.htm (168 words)

	Egyptian sea vessel artifacts discovered at pharaonic port of Mersa Gawasis along Red Sea coast
		Egyptian sea vessel artifacts discovered at pharaonic port of Mersa Gawasis along Red Sea coast
		Two days later at a site about 30 meters beyond this cave, the team removed sand covering the entrance to a second cave, one that held the well-preserved cedar timbers of an ancient Egyptian sea-faring vessel.
		In addition to the nautical items in the second cave, and the two antechambers discovered to branch from it, the archaeologists found limestone tablets with hieroglyphic inscriptions that detail long-ago trade expeditions to the Red Sea region known as Punt.
	www.innovations-report.com /html/reports/earth_sciences/report-43448.html (508 words)

	Egyptian Sea Vessel Artifacts Discovered At Pharaonic Port Of Mersa Gawasis Along Red Sea Coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Eye parts lost during the past million years of evolution were restored in just a matter of days...
		International Alliance To Unlock Secrets Of Egyptian Mummies (May 20, 2005) -- Two world-renowned teams of experts on Egyptian mummies have joined forces in an international effort to better understand disease and its treatment in ancient...
		The opening that Bard, an associate professor of archaeology at Boston University, and her team's co-leader Rodolfo Fattovich, a professor of archaeology at Italy's University of Naples "L'Orientale," discovered was the entrance to a large, man-made cave.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/04/050423191506.htm (719 words)

	Greek Mythology: PROTEUS the Sea God
		He was closely connected with the island of Lemnos, the Thracian peninsular of Pallene, and the Egyptian island of Pharos.
		At noon the old god came out of the sea as well, and found the sleek seals already there; he began to pass down the whole line of them, counting them, and among his flock he counted ourselves first of all, never guessing that treachery was afoot; after this, he himself lay down.
		made his ways beneath the sea, avoiding the stranger-slaying wrestling [Herakles] of his sons [Tmolos and Telegonos] and sending to his sire [Poseidon] prayers which were heard, even that he should set him with returning feet in his fatherland, whence he had come as a wanderer to Pallenia [in Thrake]...
	www.theoi.com /Pontios/Proteus.html (3612 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture \| In progress: Sand and sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At that point, 12 years ago, I was still working in a figurative way, butrecking through the desert, looking at the sand, looking at the movements of the landscape, the figure disappeared in my work.
		I have also made large installations constructed from sand and based on observations of how the sand moves and on the primordial, arid aspects of the landscape.
		A large sand installation is likely to be a major piece in the Lyons exhibition.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/620/cu2.htm (960 words)

	Desert oasis: Siwa is a refreshing addition to any Egyptian itinerary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Arriving in Siwa, the first sight is Shali, or the mud-brick remains of the old city fortress, which rises in a ghostly labyrinth of alleyways to an outcrop at the top of a hill that overlooks the town square.
		For a few Egyptian pounds, boys ferry tourists to nearby sites, including neighboring Bedouin villages, Roman ruins, a swimming hole called Cleopatra's Bath and the "Hill of the Dead," where the caretaker likes to show off a mummified head, gleefully pointing out the well-preserved hair and ears.
		The ancient Egyptian and Roman-era tombs at the Hill of the Dead were mostly looted in past centuries, but some colorful tomb paintings remain, including one of a crocodile.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05093/480850.stm (1335 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Bombers kill 88 at Egyptian resort
		Two Britons were among 88 people confirmed dead in the bombings in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik, said Dr Saeed Abdel Fattah, manager of the Sharm el-Sheik International Hospital.
		The group, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, al-Qaida in Syria and Egypt, was one of two extremist groups that also claimed responsibility for October bombings at the Egyptian resorts of Taba and Ras Shitan that killed 34.
		But a top Egyptian official said there are some indications the latest bombings were linked to last autumn's Taba explosions.
	www.guardian.co.uk /alqaida/story/0,12469,1534781,00.html (1127 words)

	Long Range Desert Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They arrived there by driving approximately 240km across the Egyptian Sand Sea.
		On September 15, two patrols of the LRDG were engaged in the unit's first combat operations.
		In this action Captain Mitford's unit traveled via the Kalansho Sand Sea and attacked Italian petrol dumps and emergency landing fields along the Palificata.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/email-extractor.html (636 words)

	Tourists quit bomb-hit Egyptian resort
		An official source in Sharm el-Sheikh said the death toll was 88, but Minister of Health Mohamed Awad Tag el-Din told Egyptian television on Sunday that 63 died.
		Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Saturday the attacks -- targeting a showpiece of Egypt’s tourism industry -- would serve only to stiffen his resolve to combat militants.
		An Egyptian Tourism Ministry spokeswoman said it was too early to tell how hard the attacks would affect Egypt’s $6.6 billion (3.8 billion pounds) tourism industry, which employs more than 1 million.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /cgi-bin/news/newswire.cgi/news/reuters/2005/07/24/world/touristsquitbomb-hitegyptianresort.html&template=/news/templates/newswire/news_story_reuters.html (682 words)

	KSL News: Egyptian Toll Hits 88; Mubarak Vows Hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The scene in daylight after three car bombs exploded in quick succession in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik in Egypt early Saturday, July 23, 2005, ripping through a hotel and a coffeeshop packed with European and Egyptian tourists.
		Egyptian police detained at least 20 people, including local Bedouin tribesmen, for questioning, but they were not currently suspected of involvement in the blasts, security officials said on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.
		A top Egyptian official said there were some indications the latest bombings were linked to last fall's Taba explosions.
	tv.ksl.com /index.php?sid=220728&nid=6 (1367 words)

	Libya @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Before and after the Arabs erupted out of their homeland in the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century, planting their language, religion, and culture across all of North Africa, the coastal strip was a corridor for invaders passing back and forth between Egypt and the lands to the west.
		In the east, toward the Egyptian frontier, sand also preserves the lethal legacy of more recent transients—land mines laid by the British Eighth Army and the German Afrika Korps during their epic battles in World War II.
		Then in 1969, irked by pervasive corruption and inspired by the Arab nationalism of his idol, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, 27-year-old army Capt. Muammar Qaddafi, the son of a desert nomad, overthrew the feeble monarchy in a bloodless coup and began his revolution.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0011/feature1/fulltext.html (4691 words)

	Egyptian Sand Sea - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Egyptian Sand Sea - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Egyptian Sand Sea contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Egyptian_Sand_Sea (76 words)

	Egyptvoyager.com: Egyptian Oasis - Explorers & Travellers
		Little is known for the moment about a contemporary occupation of the other oases, the way the ancient Egyptians named these areas in the Western Desert is still unclear.
		Herodotus, the Greek traveller and historian, spent a few months in Egypt in the V century BC and visited Siwa, seat of the famous Oracle of Amun which had achieved a considerable importance throughout the Greek world.
		Rohlfs, travelling by camel, for the first time headed west to the unknown Great Sand Sea, where his expedition had quite a hard time.
	www.egyptvoyager.com /oases_explorer.htm (687 words)

	Travel Adventure, Mystery of Egypt's Sand Sea - GoNOMAD
		On the southern shore of the Sand Sea--on the Egyptian side close to the Libyan border and a hundred miles from the nearest tree lies a unique geological oddity: Libyan silica glass.
		By evening everyone had their cache of "faux emeralds;" one of the Egyptian drivers had acquired the knack and guarded a sack full of glass that he'd sell in the souks of the Red Sea resorts.
		A plausible theory suggests that the sand, which is almost pure silica, was fused by the intense heat of a meteor impact.
	www.gonomad.com /features/0009/egyptsilica.html (718 words)

	Kalansho Sand Sea Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	thea @ MindSay
		The disadvantage is, as in every Egyptian Organisation, there is a lot of bureaucracy, and at time things take a long process and a lot of work is done for no reason. But I guess I could try dealing with that!!!
		Approximately 800 km away from Alex, lies Siwa, an oasis in Egypt, located between the Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Sand Sea in the Libyan desert.
		We rode jeeps into the desert, climbed and went down high sand dunes, until we arrived into our campsite, where were were welcomed by a beautiful sunset, camels and delicious Siwan tea.
	thea.mindsay.com (3721 words)

	History Information - LRDG
		The few people who knew by experience that sand seas were not complete obstacles to all forms of motor transport were a handful of Englishmen whose professions had taken them to the Middle East between the wars, and who had made a hobby of desert travel and exploration.
		They had acquired the skill to discern a course amidst the huge sand dunes,and mastered the art of driving a vehicle up and across them without embedding or overturning it.
		The crossings of the sand sea were further explored; several Italian landing grounds between Jalo and Kufra were visited and damaged; the exits from Kufra and Uweinat were reconnoitered, and some prisoners and transports were taken.
	www.lrdg.org /lrdg_history_information.htm (4629 words)

	Egyptvoyager.com: Oasis of the Western Desert
		The Egyptian Western Desert includes areas which differ considerably one from the other.
		Rock desert, flat plateau, fertile depressions, chains of dunes, and down at the "triple" point between Egypt, Libya and Sudan, large mountains create different types of desert landscape each with its own inhabitants.
		The only area where life is virtually absent is the so-called Great Sand Sea, the largest and most dangerous dune field of the world, able to swallow and cancel anything which crosses its path.
	www.egyptvoyager.com /oases.htm (90 words)

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