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Oasis airline trolleys fly out the saleroom

South China Morning Post - Found 50 minutes ago
... up trolleys, earplugs, cutlery, paper cups and business class amenity packs from the once loved, now defunct, Oasis Hong Kong Airlines.

Posted on July 4, 2009, 5:56 am

The oasis of Bestwood Village

Easier - Found Jul. 3, 2009
... been thoughtfully designed to compliment its pretty surroundings and once completed it will be something of an oasis and the ideal place to...

Posted on July 3, 2009, 2:19 am

Shimbashi cafe booms as oasis for smokers

Japan Today - Found Jul. 1, 2009
... smoking ban in the city can take a breather at a tobacco cafe that recently opened in Tokyos Shimbashi district, becoming an oasis for smokers.
Shimbashi cafe booms as oasis for smokers+ - Breitbart.com
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Posted on July 1, 2009, 11:18 am

Citygarden. - An Urban Oasis Blooms in St. Louis

Reuters - Found Jun. 30, 2009
Citygarden, which was dedicated today, is an oasis in the City, a breathtaking civic space of multi-dimensional appeal - marrying art and...
Citygarden. -- An Urban Oasis Blooms in St. Louis - Forbes.com
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Posted on June 30, 2009, 10:32 am

BBH New York Wins a Titanium Lion for 'Oasis Dig Out Your Soul'

Reuters - Found Jun. 29, 2009
Oasis album debut at number one in the UK and number five in the US, making 'Dig Out Your Soul' Oasis' first top 10 album in ten years. 'Oasis...
BBH New York Wins a Titanium Lion for 'Oasis Dig Out Your Soul' - Globe Investor
BBH New York Wins a Titanium Lion for 'Oasis Dig Out Your Soul' - Business Review Albany
BBH New York Wins a Titanium Lion for 'Oasis Dig Out Your Soul' - Earthtimes.org
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Posted on June 29, 2009, 2:01 am

Violent Oasis Gig Signals the End for Scottish Stadium

MaleFirst Mens Magazine - Found Jun. 28, 2009
Officials in Scotland are set to ban rock concerts at a sports stadium - after a recent Oasis show descended into violence.

Posted on June 28, 2009, 3:19 am

Square to host a different kind of oasis

Edinburgh Evening News - Found Jun. 27, 2009
A TASTE of the Savannah is set to come to Edinburgh when an oasis is built in St Andrew Square.

Posted on June 27, 2009, 4:41 am

Oasis members form new group

VNUNet.com - Found Jun. 26, 2009
Open standards consortium Oasis has formed a new group tasked with promoting the adoption of information exchange standards that aim to help improve
Oasis members form new group - What PC
Oasis members form new group - PC Magazine UK
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Posted on June 26, 2009, 8:40 am

Dawe slams behaviour of legless Oasis fans at Murrayfield

The Scotsman - Found Jun. 26, 2009
CITY leader Jenny Dawe has hit out at Oasis fans who caused mayhem in the run-up to the band's Murrayfield gig last week, but stopped short of
Dawe slams behaviour of legless Oasis fans at Murrayfield - Edinburgh Evening News
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Posted on June 26, 2009, 4:46 am

Oasis Biography

Oasis
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Ein-Kelt, an oasis in the Judean Desert, Israel

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

The Huacachina oasis in Ica, Peru

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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Oasis in the Libyan part of the Sahara

People who live in an oasis use every bit of land. Water has to be used carefully; the 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

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