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    The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies...
    60 KB (6,720 words) - 22:38, 23 October 2024
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    costs. The Yellow dust or Asian dust is a seasonal dust cloud that affects Northeast Asia during late winter and springtime. The dust originates in the...
    74 KB (7,786 words) - 21:54, 10 November 2024
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    Dust bunnies (or dustbunnies) are small clumps of dust that form under furniture and in corners that are not cleaned regularly. They are made of hair,...
    4 KB (360 words) - 16:33, 8 June 2024
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    A dust storm, also called a sandstorm, is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions. Dust storms arise when a gust front or other...
    22 KB (2,285 words) - 22:35, 4 November 2024
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    kilometers. Some of clouds of sand reach up to 6,000 meters in altitude. The raised dust can then move in the eastward atmospheric circulation while being captured...
    6 KB (588 words) - 15:41, 10 July 2024
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    of the gases that escape the barrel toward the ground, where they can raise dust, potentially revealing the gun position. But when the ML-20 was developed...
    30 KB (2,910 words) - 18:52, 1 November 2024
  • Margaret Bellum lives on a formerly successful farmland, now razed by the Dust Bowl. She works alongside her two daughters, teenaged Rose and her younger...
    19 KB (1,979 words) - 14:51, 15 October 2024
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    People made so much dust; my God, was it dusty! That makes the streets dirty... when hundreds of wagons go around, they raise dust. And very often, we...
    155 KB (18,232 words) - 21:23, 6 November 2024
  • atmospheric chlorine radicals, a natural methane sink. Winds over the Sahara raise dust into the troposphere and disperse it over the Atlantic. A 2023 study suggests...
    10 KB (962 words) - 19:14, 9 April 2024
  • Raise Vibration is the eleventh studio album by American rock musician Lenny Kravitz. It was released on Roxie Records via BMG Rights Management on September...
    23 KB (1,719 words) - 16:41, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for 152 mm howitzer M1938 (M-10)
    some of the gases that escape the barrel toward the ground where they raise dust, revealing the gun position. The gun could be towed by an artillery tractor...
    23 KB (2,046 words) - 00:08, 29 October 2024
  • The Dust Bowl is a 2012 American television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns which aired on PBS on November 18 and 19, 2012. The two-part miniseries...
    4 KB (299 words) - 22:37, 24 May 2024
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    some of the gases that escape the barrel toward the ground where they raise dust, revealing the gun's position. Another side-effect of a muzzle brake is...
    46 KB (4,400 words) - 12:57, 30 October 2024
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    international standards Heavy metals found in road dust – lead over 300 times that of a control village's road dust and copper over 100 times The Agbogbloshie...
    153 KB (16,045 words) - 19:56, 11 November 2024
  • commonly realized with a single contact. The phoneme /r̝/, written ⟨ř⟩, is a raised alveolar non-sonorant trill. Its rarity makes it difficult to produce for...
    34 KB (3,013 words) - 18:58, 1 September 2024
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    A dust explosion is the rapid combustion of fine particles suspended in the air within an enclosed location. Dust explosions can occur where any dispersed...
    28 KB (2,373 words) - 23:20, 28 October 2024
  • Coal dust is a fine-powdered form of coal which is created by the crushing, grinding, or pulverization of coal rock. Because of the brittle nature of coal...
    10 KB (1,127 words) - 09:29, 28 April 2024
  • numerous, they would sometimes tie a tree branch to their horse's tail to raise dust, obscuring their position and creating the illusion of a larger group...
    62 KB (9,486 words) - 12:55, 22 October 2024
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    troops at Tobruk by a ruse; aircraft-engines mounted on trucks were to raise dust, simulating the presence of a big armoured force. The Germans had combed...
    49 KB (6,307 words) - 18:43, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Megiddo (1918)
    process the next day. Vehicles or mules dragged harrows along tracks to raise dust clouds, simulating other troop movements. Dummy camps and horse lines...
    58 KB (7,260 words) - 10:57, 1 November 2024
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