Word: dasht
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mongol Khans; in Isfahan, whose fragrant splendors led the Arabs to call it "One Half of the World." The night sky flares bright in the oilfields of Abadan, where the Zoroastrians built fire temples over ducts of natural gas. A railroad is stretching out across the treacherous Dasht-i-Kavir Desert, once traversed only by spice caravans from the Orient. A giant dam now irrigates the rolling grainlands below Shush, the ancient capital of the Elamites, where Daniel had his second vision...
...plan to document the route carefully, providing up-to-date information on reads, rivers, and villages, and the avail-ability of fuel and water," said Warren M. Zapol, leader of the group, a senior in Life Sciences at M.I.T. "Extreme conditions vary from the Dasht-i-Lut desert in eastern Iran at 120 degrees F to cold nights in the Himalayas of northern India. The basic purpose of our trip is to make better known a little know portion of the world...