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distribution of hot and temperate deserts

Tour the butte escarpments and vegetative landscape of Arizona desert terrain

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Agave shawii growing in a desert in North America.

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How Do Deserts Form?

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Was Santa Claus a Real Person?

New York NY/ USA- November 23, 2018 Hordes of shoppers throng the Macy's Herald Square flagship store in New York looking for bargains on the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday.

Why Is It Called Black Friday?

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Why Is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Celebrated on a Thursday?

Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls

Pro and Con: School Uniforms

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

Super Typhoon Noru over the western tropical Pacific Ocean as observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA Aqua satellite July 31 2017

What Is the Difference Between a Typhoon and a Super Typhoon?

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distribution of hot and temperate deserts

desert pavement

Tour the butte escarpments and vegetative landscape of Arizona desert terrain

Understand the concept of Hadley cells in explaining tropical rain forests and deserts

How does desert dust from the Sahara affect global climate?

Behold Saguaro National Park plant life. such as the saguaro cactus, unique to the Sonoran Desert

Study how desert plants adapt and survive harsh conditions and how cacti provide sustenance for desert animals

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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