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City Carved In Stone (Petra)
Sunspot/Chicago Tribune ^ | 1-11-2003 | Robert Cross

Posted on 01/14/2004 11:09:07 AM PST by blam

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21 posted on 01/14/2004 4:20:19 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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Petra. Top of the list of places I have always wanted to see in person.
22 posted on 01/14/2004 4:25:48 PM PST by abner (In search of a witty tag line... found it! http://www.intelmemo.com < go there or be square!)
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23 posted on 01/14/2004 5:18:45 PM PST by msdrby (US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
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"And here I always thought a wadi was a dried up river bed, not a valley. Oh well."

Actually, a wadi is a place where water still runs (at least intermittently).

24 posted on 01/15/2004 5:24:02 AM PST by Bat_Chemist (...There's a higher place to go (Beyond belief...beyond belief))
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Everything was expensive there, especially the transportation because they knew a person had no choice.

The very soul of our much vaunted free enterprise system. Why is it this upsets us when foreigners from backward countries practice it in spades?

25 posted on 01/15/2004 10:10:13 PM PST by carpio
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A tie game.

Main Entry: wa·di

Pronunciation: 'wä-dE

Function: noun

Etymology: Arabic wAdiy

Date: 1839

1 : the bed or valley of a stream in regions of southwestern Asia and northern Africa that is usually dry except during the rainy season and that often forms an oasis : GULLY, WASH

2 : a shallow usually sharply defined depression in a desert region

26 posted on 01/15/2004 10:20:00 PM PST by carpio
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BTTT
27 posted on 02/06/2004 5:51:49 PM PST by carpio
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BTTT
28 posted on 02/06/2004 5:54:31 PM PST by carpio
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Not a ping, just a GGG update. Thanks blam.
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29 posted on 12/31/2004 8:59:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The nice thing about Moslem civil wars? Everybody wins.)
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30 posted on 08/26/2008 7:56:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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