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Word: sinbad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a fiery red ball from the blue-black depths of the Arabian Sea. As darkness retreats across the Hajar mountains, the barren landscape changes from gray-brown to beige and copper. It is the birth of a new day in the Sultanate of Oman, a legendary home of Sinbad the Sailor and fabled source of frankincense for the Queen of Sheba. In this New Mexico-size nation, located on the cutting edge of the Arabian Peninsula, the dawn light- and-shadow show is a spectacular curtain raiser to a host of attractions + that have made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Oman, Arabia's Magic Kingdom | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

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