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| Full Name: | Oasis |
| Date of Birth: | 1991 |
| Place of Birth: | Manchester, England |
| Claim to Fame: | Their album Definitely Maybe (1994) |
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel - Found 4 hours ago
... to a few of the same Caribbean ports Oasis will call on for its 7-night sailings. 'I just want to enjoy that ship,' she added. Oasis' first ...
Port Everglades Opens World's Largest Cruise Terminal, Home of Royal ... - San Antonio Business Journal
Oasis terminal open, but rough seas delay ship - Houston Business Journal
Port Everglades Opens World's Largest Cruise Terminal, Home of Royal ... - Washington Business Journal
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South Florida Sun-SentinelSweeping The Nation - Found 20 hours ago
On Oasis, Amanda hammers out a relentlessly breezy Beach Boys clap-along, face set in a rictus grin as her teenage protagonist recounts My...
Earthtimes.org - Found Nov. 6, 2009
About Oasis of the Seas and Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas is the largest and most revolutionary cruise ship in the world.
Port Everglades Opens World's Largest Cruise Terminal, Home of Royal ... - Houston Chronicle
STAGE TUBE: John Tartaglia's IMAGINOCEAN Sneak Peek! - Broadway World
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Floating city nears maiden voyage - CNN Money
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ETurboNewsUSA Today - Found Nov. 6, 2009
Royal Caribbean's much-ballyhooed, record-size Oasis of the Seas has hit extreme weather this week as it makes it way across the Atlantic to its new
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Wild storms delay Oasis crossing - Mirror.co.uk
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O.C. & A.G. - Oasis Here?s the tracklist and production credits for the album: 1. Oasis ? Produced by Statik Selektah 2. Keep It Going...
USA Today - Found Nov. 3, 2009
... across the face of the planet, the vast new cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas. For an hour, the Solent became the stage on which Oasis of the Seas...
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... travel agents who are booking Oasis. With more than 30 categories of cabins, including balcony cabins that overlook interior spaces, Oasis isn...
Cruises: five of the best deals from leading cruise lines. - Telegraph
World's largest cruise ship to enter Atlantic - Telegraph
Oasis of the Seas - Mega Ship Squeezes Under Bridge in Denmark - Associated Content
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More Robbie Williams More Oasis Robbie Williams hit out at Oasis saying they had been doing a ?lap of honour? for 13 years and are now better off ...
Robbie Williams Pulls Out Of MTV Europe Music Awards - Gigwise
Robbie Williams Hits Back Over MTV No-Show - MaleFirst Mens Magazine
Reality Killed the Video Star: Robbie Williams | CD review - Observer
Robbie Williams blasts Oasis - Music-News
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ObserverModesto Bee - Found Oct. 31, 2009
The Oasis of the Seas is due to make its U.S. debut Nov. 20, when it will be shown on ABC's 'Good Morning America' at its home port of Port...
World's Biggest Cruise Ship Sets Sail From Finland - FOXNews.com
Largest cruise ship passes bridge challenge - Miami Herald
Gotta 'sea' it to believe it - New York Post
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For the English rock group, see Oasis (band). For other uses, see Oasis (disambiguation).
In geography, an oasis (plural: oases) or cienega (southwestern United States) is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source. Oases also provide habitat for animals and even humans if the area is big enough.
The location of oases has been of critical importance for trade and transportation routes in desert areas. Caravans must travel via oases so that supplies of water and food can be replenished. Thus, political or military control of an oasis has in many cases meant control of trade on a particular route. For example, the oases of Awjila, Ghadames and Kufra, situated in modern-day Libya, have at various times been vital to both North-South and East-West trade in the Sahara. The word oasis came into English via Greek ὄασις oasis, borrowed directly from Egyptian wḥ3t or Demotic wḥỉ. It was not borrowed from Coptic ouaḥe (*/waħe/), as is sometimes suggested; the Greek word is attested several centuries before Coptic existed as a written language.citation needed
Oases are formed from underground rivers or aquifers such as an artesian aquifer, where water can reach the surface naturally by pressure or by man made wells. Occasional brief thunderstorms provide subterranean water to sustain natural oases, such as the Tuat. Substrata of impermeable rock and stone can trap water and retain it in pockets; or on long faulting subsurface ridges or volcanic dikes water can collect and percolate to the surface. Any incidence of water is then used by migrating birds who also pass seeds with their droppings which will grow at the water's edge forming an oasis.
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Growing plants
People who live in an oasis must manage land and water use carefully; fields must be irrigated to grow plants like dates, figs, olives, and apricots. The most important plant in an oasis is the date palm which forms the upper layer. These palm trees provide shade for smaller trees like peach trees, which form the middle layer. By growing plants in different layers, the farmers make best use of the soil and water. Many vegetables are also grown and some cereals, such as wheat, barley and millet are grown where there is more moisture. 1
Notable Oases
- Nile River valley and delta, Egypt, is claimed as the world's biggest oasis by the 2007 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records with a stated area of 22,000 square kilometres.
- Al-Qatif,Saudi Arabia, large oasis on the coast of the Persian Gulf.
- Al Hasa,saudi arabia.
- Azraq, Jordan
- Bahariya Oasis, Egypt
- Ein Gedi, Israel
- El Tour, Sinai peninsula,
- Farafra Oasis, Egypt
- Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, United States
- Gaberoun, Libya
- Herðubreiðarlindir, a so-called oasis-like area in the frozen Highlands of Iceland
- Huacachina, Peru
- Kufra Oasis, Libya
- La Cienega, New Mexico, a paraje on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
- Las Vegas Valley, United States, what was once an oasis in the vast Mojave desert has over the years grown into a vibrant metropolitan area of over 1.8 million people, location of the famed Las Vegas Strip.
- Loulan, China
- M'Zab Valley, Algeria
- Marin, China
- Mulege, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Niya, China
- Ouargla, Algeria
- Palm Valley, Central Australia
- Safsaf Oasis, Egypt
- San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
- Siwa Oasis, Egypt
- Tabas, Iran
- Tafilalt, Morocco
- Timimoun, Algeria
- Tozeur, Tunisia
- Tuat, Algeria
- Turpan, China
- Twentynine Palms, California, United States
- Warm Springs Area, Nevada, United States
- Yarkand, China
- Zerzura, a mythical oasis in Egypt or Libya
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Bibliography
- (French) Battesti (Vincent), Jardins au désert, Evolution des pratiques et savoirs oasiens, Jérid tunisien, Paris, Éditions IRD, coll. À travers champs, 2005, 440 p. ISBN 2-7099-1564-2 Open Archives: book in free access / in French
References
External links
Media related to Oasis at Wikimedia Commons
The Wiktionary definition of oasis
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