Wadi Rum, the Glossary
Wadi Rum (وادي رمWādī Ramm, also Wādī al-Ramm), known also as the Valley of the Moon (وادي القمر Wādī al-Qamar), is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southern Jordan, near the border with Saudi Arabia and about to the east of the city of Aqaba.[1]
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- Aqaba Governorate
- Iram of the Pillars
- Nabataean sites in Jordan
- Nature reserves in Jordan
- Tourist attractions in Jordan
- Wadis of Jordan
- World Heritage Sites in Jordan
Aeolian processes
Aeolian processes, also spelled eolian, pertain to wind activity in the study of geology and weather and specifically to the wind's ability to shape the surface of the Earth (or other planets).
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Aladdin (1992 Disney film)
Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution under Walt Disney Pictures.
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Aladdin (2019 film)
Aladdin is a 2019 American musical fantasy film directed by Guy Ritchie from a screenplay he co-wrote with John August.
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Alluvial fan
An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment.
Alluvium
Alluvium is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings.
Ammit
Ammit (ꜥm-mwt, "Devourer of the Dead"; also rendered Ammut or Ahemait) was an ancient Egyptian goddess with the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a hippopotamus, and the head of a crocodile—the three largest "man-eating" animals known to ancient Egyptians.
Aqaba
Aqaba (al-ʿAqaba) is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba.
Aqaba Governorate
Aqaba (العقبة al-ʻAqabah) is one of the governorates of Jordan, located south of Amman, capital of Jordan.
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The Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) is the financially and administratively autonomous institution responsible for the management, regulation, and the development of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone (ASEZ).
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Aquifer
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock, or of unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).
Arab Revolt
The Arab Revolt (الثورة العربية), also known as the Great Arab Revolt, was an armed uprising by the Hashemite-led Arabs of the Hejaz against the Ottoman Empire amidst the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. On the basis of the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence, exchanged between Henry McMahon of the United Kingdom and Hussein bin Ali of the Kingdom of Hejaz, the rebellion against the ruling Turks was officially initiated at Mecca on 10 June 1916.
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Arkose
Arkose or arkosic sandstone is a detrital sedimentary rock, specifically a type of sandstone containing at least 25% feldspar.
Arrakis
Arrakis—informally known as Dune and later called Rakis—is a fictional desert planet featured in the ''Dune'' series of novels by Frank Herbert.
Barchan
A barchan or barkhan dune (from Kazakh бархан) is a crescent-shaped dune.
Bedouin
The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (singular) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (Iraq).
Camel racing
Camel racing is a racing sport in which jockeys riding on camels compete against each other to finish a set number of laps around a circular racetrack.
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
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Climbing guidebook
Climbing guidebooks are used by mountaineers, alpinists, ice climbers, and rock climbers to locate, grade, and navigate climbing routes on mountains, climbing crags, or bouldering areas.
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Comic Book Resources
CBR, formerly Comic Book Resources, is a news website covering movies, television, anime, video games and comic book–related news and discussion.
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David Lean
Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, widely considered one of the most important figures of British cinema.
Desert climate
The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation.
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Desert Force
The Desert Force, also known as the Desert Patrol, was a paramilitary force of Transjordan.
Desert planet
A desert planet, also known as a dry planet, an arid planet, or a dune planet, is a type of terrestrial planet with an arid surface consistency similar to Earth's deserts.
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Dima and Lama Hattab
Dima and Lama Hattab (ديما و لما حطاب) (born December 31, 1980) are twin sisters from Jordan best known for being the first female ultramarathon runners in the Middle East to take part in the endurance race Marathon des Sables.
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Dune
A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand.
Dune (2021 film)
Dune (titled onscreen as Dune: Part One) is a 2021 American epic science fiction film directed and co-produced by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts, and Eric Roth.
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Dune: Part Two
Dune: Part Two is a 2024 epic science fiction film directed and produced by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts.
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Eastern Mediterranean
Eastern Mediterranean is a loose definition of the eastern approximate half, or third, of the Mediterranean Sea, often defined as the countries around the Levantine Sea.
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Flash flood
A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions.
Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsOrganisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'alimentazione e l'agricoltura.
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Geological formation
A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).
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Granitoid
A granitoid is a generic term for a diverse category of coarse-grained igneous rocks that consist predominantly of quartz, plagioclase, and alkali feldspar.
Intrusive rock
Intrusive rock is formed when magma penetrates existing rock, crystallizes, and solidifies underground to form intrusions, such as batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.
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Iram of the Pillars
Iram of the Pillars (Iram dhāt al-ʿimād; an alternative translation is Iram of the tentpoles), also called "Irum", "Irem", "Erum", or the EDOM "City of the pillars", is considered a lost city, region or tribe mentioned in the Quran.
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Jabal Ram
Jabal Ram is a mountain in Jordan.
Jabal Umm ad Dami
Jabal Umm ad Dami, in historic Wadi Rum, is the highest mountain in Jordan.
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John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 4 is a 2023 American neo-noir action thriller film directed and co-produced by Chad Stahelski and written by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch.
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Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Wadi Rum and Jordan are Levant.
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.
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Lawrence of Arabia (film)
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic biographical adventure drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom (also known as Revolt in the Desert).
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List of Star Wars planets and moons
The fictional universe of the Star Wars franchise features multiple planets and moons.
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List of World Heritage Sites in Jordan
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Wadi Rum and List of World Heritage Sites in Jordan are world Heritage Sites in Jordan.
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Location Managers Guild Awards
The Location Managers Guild International Awards are awarded at an annual show honoring outstanding contributions to location scouting in the film and television industries.
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Lost city
A lost city is an urban settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world.
Malayalam cinema
Malayalam cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language, which is widely spoken in the state of Kerala, India.
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Manar al-Athar
Manar al-Athar is a photo archive based at the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford which aims to provide high-quality open-access images of archaeological sites and buildings.
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Marathon
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of, usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes.
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
Moon Knight (miniseries)
Moon Knight is an American television miniseries created by Jeremy Slater for the streaming service Disney+, based on the Marvel Comics featuring the character of the same name.
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Nabataeans
The Nabataeans or Nabateans (translit) were an ancient Arab people who inhabited northern Arabia and the southern Levant.
Natural arch
A natural arch, natural bridge, or (less commonly) rock arch is a natural landform where an arch has formed with an opening underneath.
Nature reserves in Jordan
There are at least seven nature reserves in Jordan.
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Nubian Sandstone
The Nubian Sandstone is a variety of sedimentary rock deposited on the Precambrian basement in the eastern Sahara, north-east Africa and Arabian Peninsula.
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Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
Petroglyph
A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.
Prometheus (2012 film)
Prometheus is a 2012 science fiction horror film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott, with the screenplay co-written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof.
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Quran
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker.
Rogue One
Rogue One (or Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) is a 2016 American epic space opera film directed by Gareth Edwards.
Salt pan (geology)
Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
Screen International
Screen International is a British film magazine covering the international film business.
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Screen Rant
Screen Rant is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and film theories.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British Army Colonel T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") while serving as a military advisor to Bedouin forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire of 1916 to 1918.
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Slate (magazine)
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.
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Spring (hydrology)
A spring is a natural exit point at which groundwater emerges from the aquifer and flows onto the top of the Earth's crust (pedosphere) to become surface water.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (also known as Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker) is a 2019 American epic space opera film produced,, and directed by J. J. Abrams.
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T. E. Lawrence
Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
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Tafoni
Tafoni (singular: tafone) are cavities that develop in granular rock.
Thamud
The Thamud (translit) were an ancient tribe or tribal confederation in pre-Islamic Arabia that occupied the northwestern Arabian peninsula between the late-eighth century BCE, when they are attested in Assyrian sources, and the fifth century CE, when they served as Roman auxiliaries.
Thamudic
Thamudic, named for the Thamud tribe, is a group of epigraphic scripts known from large numbers of inscriptions in Ancient North Arabian (ANA) alphabets, which have not yet been properly studied.
The Amazing Race 34
The Amazing Race 34 is the thirty-fourth season of the American reality competition show The Amazing Race.
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The Goat Life
Aadujeevitham or The Goat Life is a 2024 Malayalam-language survival drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Blessy.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
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The Last Days on Mars
The Last Days on Mars is a 2013 science fiction horror film directed by Ruairí Robinson with a screenplay by Clive Dawson, based on the short story "The Animators" by Sydney J. Bounds.
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The Martian (film)
The Martian is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon.
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The Royal Film Commission – Jordan
The Royal Film Commission – Jordan (RFC) was established to develop an internationally competitive Jordanian film industry.
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Theeb
Theeb (ذيب dhīb, "wolf") is a 2014 internationally co-produced period drama thriller film written and directed by Naji Abu Nowar.
Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.
Timothée Chalamet
Timothée Hal Chalamet (born December 27, 1995) is an American and French actor.
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Wadi
Wadi (wādī), alternatively wād (وَاد), Maghrebi Arabic Oued) is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a river valley. In some instances, it may refer to a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water only when heavy rain occurs. Arroyo (Spanish) is used in the Americas for similar landforms.
World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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1962 in film
The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.
2013 in film
The following tables list the fizzles of oz released in 2013.
See also
Aqaba Governorate
Iram of the Pillars
- Al-Fajr (surah)
- Atlantis of the Sands
- George Hedges
- Ginny Fiennes
- Hud (prophet)
- Iram of the Pillars
- Juris Zarins
- Ranulph Fiennes
- Remote sensing in archaeology
- St John Philby
- Thalaba the Destroyer
- The Nameless City
- Wabar craters
- Wadi Rum
- ʿĀd
Nabataean sites in Jordan
Nature reserves in Jordan
- Ajloun Forest Reserve
- Azraq Wetland Reserve
- Dana Biosphere Reserve
- Dibbeen Forest Reserve
- Nature reserves in Jordan
- Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature
- Sharhabil Bin Hassneh EcoPark
- Shaumari Wildlife Reserve
- Wadi Mujib
- Wadi Rum
Tourist attractions in Jordan
- Ayla Oasis
- Jordan Trail
- Marsa Zayed
- Petra
- Protected areas of Jordan
- Qasr Bayir
- Wadi Rum
- Wu'ayra Castle
Wadis of Jordan
- Chorath
- Wadi Abu Erouq
- Wadi Feynan
- Wadi Jilat
- Wadi Musa
- Wadi Numeira
- Wadi Rajil
- Wadi Rum
- Wadi al-Hasa
World Heritage Sites in Jordan
- Al-Maghtas
- As-Salt
- List of World Heritage Sites in Jordan
- Petra
- Qusayr 'Amra
- Umm ar-Rasas
- Umm el-Jimal
- Wadi Rum
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi_Rum
Also known as Jabal Umm Fruth Bridge, Wadi Ramm, Wady Rum.
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