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	Ordos Desert -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Ordos Desert is almost completely encircled by the great northern bend of the (A major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta) Huang He (Yellow River) in the west, north, and east.
		In the south and east, the (A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; is 1,500 miles long and averages 6 meters in width) Great Wall of China separates the Ordos from fertile (A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind) loess lands.
		Ancient names of the Ordos region are He-tau and - later - He-nan ("the country south of the river").
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/or/ordos_desert.htm (779 words)

	IGN: House Ordos
		The Ordos is the most secretive of the three large houses in the game, seeing value in subversive tactics and high technology.
		As with all Ordos vehicles, they are very susceptible to damage, with their speed decreasing dramatically once they have been severely hit.
		This is the heaviest of the Ordos' vehicles.
	pc.ign.com /articles/093/093212p1.html (1489 words)

	Articles - Ordos Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Ordos Desert (Chinese: éå°”å¤æ—¯æ²æ¼ , pinyin: Ã'ÄrduÅsÄ« (Ordos) ShÄ MÃ² (Desert)) is a desert and steppe region lying on a plateau in the south of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
		The soil of the Ordos is a mixture of clay and sand and, as a result, is poorly suited for agriculture.
		The mountain chains separating the Ordos from the central Gobi in the north of the great bent of the Huang He are: the Kara-naryn-ula, the Sheitenula, and the In Shan (In Mountains), which link on to the south end of the Great Khingan Mountains.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Ordos_Desert (937 words)

	The Ordos
		The western Ordos is largely pasture: grass and chaparral growing indomitably from soil that is almost pure sand.
		In the eastern Ordos, the land has been eroded into a spectacular network of canyons, at the bottom of which farmers grow vegetables and millet, which is roasted and then eaten as a crunchy snack or mixed with Mongolian-style tea.
		But by the time I departed the Ordos I knew that, despite modernization and every-increasing foreign influence, Mongolians are hanging on tightly to their heritage.
	alumnus.caltech.edu /~pamlogan/ordos.html (2496 words)

	The Command and Conquer Index - The A-Z of C&C
		On the southern map you begin in the southeast while the Ordos can be found in the northwest (note: the enemy base does not contain any factories or production facilities except for a barracks, if you choose to launch an attack do so soon after you begin).
		Attack the main Ordos base primarily from the west (be sure to take out any production facilities first) and the centre - the eastern mini-base will generally stay out of the fight.
		The Ordos are located in a small base directly to the south and in the northeast corner in a much larger base.
	homepage.eircom.net /~hughcampbell/ccindex/Guidelines/Dune2000.htm (6587 words)

	Ordos info (for Emperor: BFD)
		It "attacks" by self-destructing and releasing a cloud of missiles on the enemy aircraft.
		The Eye in the Sky is the main Ordos air unit.
		The Barracks is where the Ordos soldiers are trained to fight for their House and for their own profit.
	www.fortunecity.com /underworld/cole/1027/Emperor-3.htm (724 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Ordos Basin turns out to be major energy resources centre
		The Ordos Basin, which covers part of the provinces and autonomous regions of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia and Shanxi, has a total area of about 400,000 sq km.
		In the early 1980s, the giant Shenfu Dongsheng Coal Field was built in the boundaries between Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia, and the state invested tens of billions yuan to develop the Shenhua Project which involves the development of coal mines, power generation, railways, ports and shipping.
		The areas of Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and Shaanxi in the Ordos Basin have been chosen as bases for the Project of Sending Electricity from West to East.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nts32661.htm (511 words)

	Dancing with Otelai
		The Ordos is hemmed by the Great Wall to the south and the Yellow River to the north; girt by such durable geographic boundaries, the Ordos has developed its own distinct brand of Mongolian culture.
		The Ordos was a wretched, bandit-infested land rung dry by rapacious feudal princes and corrupt, parasitic lamas.
		Archeological evidence shows that the Ordos was once much wetter and warmer than it is now, and its inhabitants may well have been among the first farmers in Asia.
	alumnus.caltech.edu /~pamlogan/dancing.html (3212 words)

	Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
		Ordos basin lies in the north-central China, in a compression tectonic regime, with an area of approximately 250,000 km{sup 2}, including several pay zones ranging from Cambrian to Jurassic.
		It underwent several tectonic movements and is covered by several structural layers, with many play types developed, primarily thrust and anticlinal plays in the west, and differential compaction (river-channel sand lens) or drape as well as buried hill plays in the basin center and east.
		Ordos basin is a prolific gas basin with an estimated resource potential of gas 656,091 billion m{sup 3} in the Paleozoic strata and oil 2.0474 billion tons in the Mesozoic strata.
	www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=272666 (356 words)

	The Insidious House Ordos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The home planet of the Ordos is a frigid ice-covered world. It is believed that the Ordos import their agricultural and technological goods from nearby star systems.
		The Ordos are represented by a group of wealthy families who banded together for greater security.
		The Ordos have little conscience and seem to gain strength through their sabotage and terrorism.
	www.euronet.nl /users/jjk/games/dune2/ordos.htm (137 words)

	CNN.com - Pollution pressures China to go for gas - April 18, 2001
		The Ordos Basin, in China's south, is seen as a key long-term supplier.
		According to the Beijing Youth Daily the Ordos Basin holds gas with a reserve capacity of 100 billion cubic meters that can "stably and safely supply Beijing with gas for 20 to 30 years".
		Along with the Ordos Basin, Williams also cites offshore developments in the South China Sea, East China Sea and Bohai Bay as major suppliers for liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/asia/04/18/china.gas (298 words)

	Emperor: Battle for Dune Review
		The tank units destroy vehicles rapidly, and the Gunship and ADP are the strongest air units in the game (the Ordos Eye In the Sky is more of a floating bomb than an air unit).
		The big advantage of using Ordos units is that they regenerate hitpoints on their own (much like Starcraft's Zerg).
		Ordos also has suicide units that are great for taking out buildings.
	www.firingsquad.com /games/emperor/page6.asp (745 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Once members of the proud and old ORDOS Cartel decided that there views of future development did not comply with the visions of Corak Ordos, the once noble leader of ORDOS.
		Ordos and Imperium Stellaris remained close for some time and were regarded a "Sister/ Brother" clan, a tie which no longer remains.
		On the 22nd December 1999 of the old millennium, the Imperium Stellaris was founded by Cherubim (former Commander-in-Chief of ORDOS) and other former ORDOS members.
	www.geocities.com /frostimpst/history.htm (329 words)

	nmgnews --- Ordos explores new a new urban to forge a megacity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Ordos explores new a new urban to forge a megacity
		Ordos in Inner Mongolia of China, with a new concept, is establishing a central megacity featured 'one city, three districts'.
		The project of the thermoelectricity cogeneration with a capacity of 4*300,000 kilowattsco-invested by China International Capital Corporation Limited and and Inner Mongolia Electric Group is in tense preparation.
	english.nmgnews.com.cn /eng/article/20051018/22303_1.html (248 words)

	USING ORDOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		I'm going to begin the series with Ordos because it is my favorite house.
		I especially love ordos vs. atreides in large maps because of its ability to wipe out mino armies like spraying gnats with RAID.
		First of all, when playing Ordos against Atr, always choose FREMEN as one of your subhouses.
	faq.dune2k.com /emprworm/ordos.htm (279 words)

	Laser Tag: extreme action
		The Ordos and Harkonnen have slightly more advanced weapons then the Atreides, while the Ordos and Atreides are slightly more warlike then the Harkonnen.
		The three forces were in the middle of a battle when the scourge of the desert, the sandworm, rose from the sand and attacked, wiping out thousands and causing a sandstorm.
		Desperate to escape the pursuing Ordos, but knowing their chances were slim, the operatives hid the two weapons in the forbidding desert labyrinth of Shantoon.
	www.laserskirmish.com /missions/senaloi.htm (245 words)

	Emperor: Battle for Dune Unit FAQ - IGN FAQs
		Ordos Chaos Lightning (still acts as a unit) (6.
		Ordos Scout Shared House Units: All of the houses have units that they have in common.
		MCV Subhouses: Aside from the great houses, we have other houses called subhouses that you can ally with during the game.
	faqs.ign.com /articles/548/548598p1.html (779 words)

	Ordos on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The alkaline soil supports some grasslands, and nomadic Mongol herders raise sheep and goats; some oasis-farming is also practiced.
		CNPC AND SHELL INK PACT ON ORDOS BASIN
		Ordos city becomes China's biggest coal producer, XINHUA
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/Ordos.asp (211 words)

	House Ordos
		The economy of the planet is based entirely on trade - and smuggling, to be certain.
		A reclusive cartel of wealthy noblemen, seem to control the finances of House Ordos - and thus, House Ordos itself.
		We believe the Ordos may have Ixian weapons the Harkonnen and Atreides could only dream of.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/D2000/ordos.html (243 words)

	FED2k - Bi-La Kaifa
		The Ordos Saboteur, it looks to be heading toward that building, one of them could have been what caused that explosion.
		This is a battle between the Harkonnen and Ordos.
		Another image of the battle on the Ordos' planet, the Ordos Gas Turrets are firing and you can see a hover/flying unit in the bottom left.
	dune2k.com /?page=duniverse-emperor&show=screenshots-preview2 (405 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ordos, East Asia, East Asia (East Asian Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Ordos, East Asia, East Asia (East Asian Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
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		The Great Wall of China separates the Ordos from the fertile loess land to the south and east.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Ordos.html (197 words)

	The Eight White Ordon, the Offering Ceremonies of Genghis Khan and the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		As a Mongol from Ordos, I decided to write something on the Khan's Eight White Ordon and the mausoleum of Genghis khan when I came to the United States and found out that the people of the world know little about the man known as the "Conqueror of the World".
		Second month's Dailga (in Ordos Calendar, the 2nd month of a year is the Tavan Sar or the fifth month): On the Shiniin Negen (first day of the month) : a sheep, a khem of Arikh (wine).
		In 1950, the PLA reached the Ordos and then took over the Ordos and entire Inner Mongolia after encountering with a series of strong resistance from the Mongols.
	members.aol.com /yikhmongol/cerem-fn.htm (9286 words)

	Ordos Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Ordos region, in north-central China, also experienced intense intracontinental deformation during the Mesozoic assembly of Asia.
		The Ordos basin is also an important oil and gas frontier, and Mesozoic rocks figure prominently in the petroleum system, as source rocks and reservoirs.
		Mesozoic intracontinental deformation and synorogenic sedimentation, western Ordos basin and Helan Shan fold and thrust belt.
	cc.usu.edu /~ritts/ordos.htm (220 words)

	Emperor Battle for Dune Preview
		The Ordos are considered the most technologically advanced of the three Houses in Dune.
		The Ordos Chem Troopers are like a nutty version of the Orkin man - they run around (rather slowly) with huge tanks of chemicals on their backs.
		Like the Kindjal, the Ordos Mortar infantry have to deploy and make themselves stationary before they can start lobbing the fun down on their opponents.
	www.firingsquad.com /games/emperorpreview/page6.asp (426 words)

	Ordos Plateau Of China: An Endangered Environment; Author: Jiang, Hong; Paperback
		The Ordos Plateau of China is among a few books written on China's regional human-environmental issues by a Chinese- and US-trained geographer in recent years.
		It reflects a combination of the Chinese strength in regional environmental studies and the western tradition of nature-society geography.The Ordos Plateau of China is a dryland region inhabited by Chinese farmers and Mongolian shepherds.
		This book surveys environmental change in this region between 1949 and 1992 and investigates how societal factors, such as economics and population, have contributed to environmental change.
	www.netstoreusa.com /sabooks/928/9280810359.shtml (224 words)

	The Ordos Plateau of China
		The Ordos Plateau of China is an account of the regional human-environmental history of the Ordos Plateau, a dryland region inhabited by Chinese farmers and Mongolian shepherds.
		Throughout the discussion, the author retains keen awareness of the intricate interrelations among the environmental and societal factors.
		Based primarily on first-hand materials, and other documents that are not readily accessible in English, this book provides a richly contextualized account of Ordos environmental history and its relationship with society, to the English-speaking world.
	www.brook.edu /press/books/clientpr/Unupress/ordos_plateau.htm (318 words)

	nmgnews --- Ordos City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It is rich in the nature resources such as mines, coal, gas and cashmere.
		The scenery spots contains the tomb of Genghis Khan, Ordos Wedding Ceremony, and Ordos Singing and dancing, and the world famous Singing Sand, the desert oasis Engebei.
		The cashmere textile, coal, chemical industry, electricity, and construction materials support the city's economy, Ordos cashmere is famous all around the world.
	english.nmgnews.com.cn /eng/article/20050415/1724_1.html (128 words)

	Westwood Infiltration - Part of the Neuro Gamer Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		What is known, however, is that the reclusive elite of Ordos has at its disposal radical new technologies that it hopes will put all of Arrakis in its hands.
		However, money can't buy loyalty: Ordos troops desert with alarming frequency, and, despite its wealth, the Ordos' military strength is shaky at best.
		The House Harkonnen is built on a simple foundation of fear and terror, two tactics that make the Baron Harkonnen's troops that much more dangerous: risk death on the battlefield, or suffer a slow, excruciating death in the Baron's chambers as he watches with relish.
	www.westwoodi.net /read.php?Games/Dune3/Houses (465 words)

	DUNEXREF.HTM: Dune: The Battle for Arrakis (US/NTSC) Extended Reference
		In later missions an Ordos player's soldier barracks can be upgraded to produce trooper(s) units.
		o If an Ordos palace is tightly surrounded by other buildings, walls, or ground units, it may be difficult or impossible to deploy a saboteur.
		(An Ordos barracks is the only building in the game that can be upgraded 3 times in a single mission.) o Some captured Computer buildings may require upgrades to reach their full manufacturing potential.
	ledmeister.com /dunexref.htm (12790 words)

	GameSpot:Video Games PC PlayStation 2 GameCube PSP DS GBA PS2 PS3 Xbox 360 PlayStation 3
		Official Briefing: The Ordos continue to grow in strength, thanks to their acquisition of new weaponry.
		The Ordos know that the wrath of the Harkonnen will soon fall upon them, and have allied with the Atreides.
		Capturing or destroying the Ordos Palace will show the Atreides the true might of the House of Harkonnen and will throw the Ordos into disarray.
	www.gamespot.com /features/dunesg/mh8.html (983 words)

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