The Mojave Desert and the Black Rock Desert are both featured in the film, the latter known in recent years for being the site of the annual Burning Man festival, a week-long event during which thousands of people camp out in the desert with the goal of creating a temporary city based on principles of community and self reliance.

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In 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, he drove Thrust SSC to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a car and set the existing land-speed record of 763mph.

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The scene is like something from a Biblical epic: 2, 000 sheep are being driven across a desert of black lava.

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We also had to wear black rubber boots over our desert boots.

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He designed the rooms at the Mondrian Scottsdale to evoke the "pure black skies and sharp colors" of the surrounding desert.

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Fifth-seeded Henman had sparkled all week in the hardcourt desert event, cruising past Stefan Koubek, Byron Black and Niclas Lapentti before dismissing semi-finalist Alberto Costa.

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Sunni and Shiite, black and white, Arab and non-Arab wending their way to the desert.

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The Black Watch first fought in Iraq in April 2003 as part of the 7th Armoured Brigade, which led the Desert Rats' attack on Basra, the country's second city.

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Spotting a rare, black rhino can be a real challenge, but this does not seem to worry Chris Bakkes, the manager of Desert Rhino Camp, which runs rhino safaris.

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In this desert region of flat-topped mountains, russet hills, gravel plains and swathes of scrubland, the black rhino are not tagged or tracked by satellite, nor are their movements restricted by the boundaries of a huge game reserve.

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