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The Defector, by Octav Băncilă, 1906 Deserteur (Дезертир), by Ilya Repin, 1917 Armenian soldiers in 1919, with deserters as prisoners. Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning.
The Book of Numbers further states that the number of Israelite males aged 20 years and older in the desert during the wandering was 603,550, which works out to a total population of 2.5-3 million including women and children—far more than could be supported by the Sinai Desert. [31]
In order to escape Pharaoh's death penalty, Moses fled to Midian (a desert country south of Judah), where he married Zipporah. [ 43 ] There, on Mount Horeb , God appeared to Moses at a burning bush , revealed to Moses his name YHWH (probably pronounced Yahweh ) [ 44 ] and commanded him to return to Egypt and bring his chosen people (Israel) out ...
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world. This is a list of deserts sorted by the region of the world in which the desert is located. Africa. Namib Desert.
A desert especially rich in mineral salts is the Atacama Desert, Chile, where sodium nitrate has been mined for explosives and fertilizer since around 1850. [105] Other desert minerals are copper from Chile, Peru, and Iran, and iron and uranium in Australia.
The Book of Mystical Chapters: Meditations on the Soul's Ascent, from the Desert Fathers and Other Early Christian Contemplatives. ISBN 1-59030-007-6. Merton, Thomas. The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century. ISBN 1-59030-039-4, 0-85969-003-2. Merton, Thomas. Wisdom of the Desert. ISBN 0-8112-0102-3.
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Salt pan at Lake Karum in Ethiopia. Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun.They are found in deserts and are natural formations (unlike salt evaporation ponds, which are artificial).