Red Sea
an arm of the Indian Ocean, extending northwest between Africa and Arabia: connected to the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal. 1,450 miles (2,335 kilometers) long; 170,000 square miles (440,300 square kilometers); greatest depth, 7,254 feet (2,211 meters).
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Migrations out of Africa, he says, now appear more likely to have wended through northern Arabia rather than across a narrow Red Sea crossing to southern Arabia, often regarded as a major dispersal route for ancient humans.
Stone Age humans or their relatives occasionally trekked through a green Arabia | Bruce Bower | September 1, 2021 | Science NewsSo acute is the kingdom’s dependence on desalinated water, which accounts for roughly half of its requirements, that in 2018, the state-run Saudi Saline Water Conversion Corporation commissioned nine new plants along the Red Sea coast.
A Rusting Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Yemen Is an Environmental Catastrophe Waiting to Happen. Can Anyone Prevent It? | Joseph Hincks | May 14, 2021 | TimeExpecting to witness the same heartbreaking bleaching patterns that had turned other reefs into lifeless undersea boneyards, Fine was struck by the fact the northern Red Sea corals remained as vibrant as he remembered.
A Rusting Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Yemen Is an Environmental Catastrophe Waiting to Happen. Can Anyone Prevent It? | Joseph Hincks | May 14, 2021 | TimeIn the summer, Red Sea currents would drag an oil slick south, threatening Eritrea and Djibouti, and potentially entering the Gulf of Aden.
A Rusting Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Yemen Is an Environmental Catastrophe Waiting to Happen. Can Anyone Prevent It? | Joseph Hincks | May 14, 2021 | TimeIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled in secret Sunday to the city of Neom on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast for a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Israeli sources told me.
Israeli PM Netanyahu secretly flew to Saudi Arabia for meeting with Pompeo and crown prince | Barak Ravid | November 23, 2020 | Axios
When it came to shooting the famous parting of the Red Sea, Ridley Scott elected to show a tsunami splitting the waters.
Christian Bale: One Man's Moses Is Another Man's Terrorist | Candida Moss, Joel Baden | December 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Negev desert—Al-Naqab in Arabic—stretches across southern Israel down to Eilat and the Red Sea.
Griffith was elected to a North Alabama district in 2008 that had long been a Democratic redoubt in the midst of a deep Red Sea.
But then again, Jews complained about the food within a week of the parting of the Red Sea.
We’re Here, We’re Pro-Israel/Pro-Peace, We’re Used to It. Now What? | Jay Michaelson | September 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHow a daring 2011 capture operation on the Red Sea created a template for what to do with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Remember in what manner our fathers were saved in the Red Sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with a great army.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousThis part of the Red Sea is considered to be the hottest portion of the earth's surface.
We were going through the Red Sea, when suddenly a violent storm broke upon us.
Here he appears as Moses, and the Red Sea has been dried up to permit the passage of himself and his people.
Raemaekers' Cartoons | Louis RaemaekersHe made but one fierce and rapid irruption into the neighborhood of the "Red Sea," and returned sick and shuddering therefrom.
British Dictionary definitions for Red Sea
a long narrow sea between Arabia and NE Africa, linked with the Mediterranean in the north by the Suez Canal and with the Indian Ocean in the south: occasionally reddish in appearance through algae. Area: 438 000 sq km (169 000 sq miles)
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Cultural definitions for Red Sea
Narrow sea between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
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