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...three-to five-day trips take in the major attractions of Jordan's rich cultural heritage in the context of Lawrence's own journey through the desert to Aqaba. Starting with the mandatory daylong rounds of Petra's historical sights, Lawrence fans hit sacred ground at Wadi Rum. This desolate stretch of desert is home to the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the range of mountains that provided the inspiration for Lawrence's autobiographical epic of the same name. Lawrence loved the stillness and raw, natural beauty of the desert. In the book, he recounts tales of his campaigns against...
...point. Before the intifadeh, Darwazeh, a Hamas bombmaker, got to know members of Arafat's Force 17 security unit when they guarded his cell at the Jeneid prison in the West Bank city of Nablus. When he was released, he paid them to watch over his bombmaking lab on Wadi Tuffah Street in Nablus, an arrangement that continued until Darwazeh was assassinated by Israel in July. Other examples of common effort...
...Glanzman's assertion would once have been considered ludicrous. That's because experts believed the earliest signs of civilization on the Arabian peninsula dated to just 700 B.C., more than 200 years after the Queen of Sheba's lifetime. But in the late 1980s, pottery shards from Wadi al-Jubah, not far from Marib, was found to be 3,500 years old. Suddenly, a wealth of other circumstantial evidence, both cultural and religious, made the Queen's existence seem a lot more plausible...
Glanzman's assertion would once have been considered ludicrous. That's because experts believed the earliest signs of civilization on the Arabian peninsula dated to just 700 B.C., more than 200 years after the Queen of Sheba's lifetime. But in the late 1980s, pottery shards from Wadi al-Jubah, not far from Marib, was found to be 3,500 years old. Suddenly, a wealth of other circumstantial evidence, both cultural and religious, made the Queen's existence seem a lot more plausible...
...they had an animated conversation. Schwarzkopf told the Egyptians that a huge Iraqi assault was expected on the Western flank of allied lines. He was saying they're coming straight at you. So the general let us go out with his special forces, who were setting ambushes along the wadi where the attack was expected. We were lying there in the desert all night with these special forces guys when suddenly we hear these B-52's flying high overhead. They fly over, and then we feel the ground shaking. And the smell of burnt flesh wafts down the wadi...