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* The Taklamakan Desert. There's some dispute about the meaning of the name, but none of them are pleasant. Some say it means "Abandoned place" or "Place of ruins", while others say "Point of no return" or "Go in and you won't come out". Its nickname is "The Desert of Death". All of which are accurate. |
* The Taklamakan Desert. There's some dispute about the meaning of the name, but none of them are pleasant. Some say it means "Abandoned place" or "Place of ruins", while others say "Point of no return" or "Go in and you won't come out". Its nickname is "The Desert of Death". All of which are accurate. |
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* "L'Ile du Diable" ([[wikipedia:Devil's Island|The Devil's Island]]) in French Guiana. It harboured a penal colony. |
* "L'Ile du Diable" ([[wikipedia:Devil's Island|The Devil's Island]]) in French Guiana. It harboured a penal colony. |
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* Along the road from Kuwait to Iraq is the ''Highway of Death'' called so because of the pounding the retreating Iraqi Army got in the first Gulf War. One could follow it looking from above by tracing the wrecked vehicles and of course the wrecked people within. |
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* The waters off Guadalcanal are immortalized as Ironbottom Sound because of all the Allied and Japanese ships that lay at the bottom. In the US Navy [[Due to the Dead|silence is observed when a ship cruises over.]] |
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