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Sirte

Sirte (/ˈsɜːrt/; Arabic: سرت,  pronunciation ; from Ancient Greek: Σύρτις), also spelled Sirt, Surt, Sert or Syrte, is a city in Libya. It is on the south coast of the Gulf of Sidra (ancient Syrtis Major, from which Sirte's name is derived). Sirte lies halfway between Tripoli and Benghazi. The settlement was established in the early 20th century by the Italians, at the site of a 19th-century fortress built by the Ottomans. It grew into a city after World War II.

As the birthplace of Muammar Gaddafi, Sirte was favoured by the Gaddafi government. The city was the final major stronghold of Gaddafi loyalists in the Libyan Civil War and Gaddafi was killed there by rebel forces on 20 October 2011. During the battle, Sirte was left almost completely in ruins, with many buildings totally destroyed or damaged. Six months after the civil war, almost 60,000 inhabitants, more than 70 percent of pre-war population, had returned.

As of 16 February 2015, the terrorist organization Daesh controls the city.

List of craters on Mars: O-Z

This is a list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact crater on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here contains only named Martian craters starting with the letter O Z (see also lists for A G and H N).

Large Martian craters (greater than 60 km in diameter) are named after famous scientists and science fiction authors; smaller ones (less than 60 km in diameter) get their names from towns on Earth. Craters cannot be named for living people, and small crater names are not intended to be commemorative - that is, a small crater isn't actually named after a specific town on Earth, but rather its name comes at random from a pool of terrestrial place names, with some exceptions made for craters near landing sites. Latitude and longitude are given as planetographic coordinates with west longitude.

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    See also

  • List of catenae on Mars
  • List of craters on Mars
  • List of mountains on Mars
  • References

    Sirte (disambiguation)

    Sirte is a city in Libya

    Sirte may also refer to:

  • Sirte Declaration, a 1999 resolution to create the African Union
  • Sirte Oil Company, a Libyan oil company
  • In geography:

  • Gulf of Sirte, alias for Gulf of Sidra on Libya's coast
  • Sirte Basin, an oilfield beneath Sirte province and the Gulf
  • In World War II, two naval battles were fought in the Gulf of Sirte:

  • First Battle of Sirte (17 December 1941)
  • Second Battle of Sirte (22 March 1942)

  • In the Libyan Civil War:

  • Battle of Sirte (2011)
  • See also

  • Syrtis (disambiguation)
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    Maiden Mother & Crone

    by: Sword

    The maiden sitting by her pool
    Was first to hear my pleas
    As she looked into the water
    She recited these words to me:
    Walk not down that road
    I can not tell you where it goes
    Ask me no more questions
    Some things you weren't meant to know
    The mother toiling in the fields
    Her apron full of seeds
    As she dropped them to the earth
    She recited these words to me:
    Walk not down that road
    I can not tell you where it goes
    Ask me no more questions
    Some things you weren't meant to know
    The greater mysteries
    Cannot be shown
    Divided by three
    The are the maiden, the mother, the crone
    Finally I found the crone
    Walking through the trees
    She looked in my eyes
    As she recited these words to me:
    Go before the maiden
    Get down on your knees
    Should you win her favor
    She may tell you what she sees
    The harvest is reaped
    Seeds are shown
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