The was a ceremonial portable shrine that departed Damascus headed to Mecca each pilgrimage season | 7, the first well in which oil was discovered in commercial quantities that very year |
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Approximately three thousand clay houses collapsed in one Qasimi city alone, some with its owners still inside | A camel caravan of pilgrims heading from Najd to Mecca, each camel is strapped to a Howdaj a carriage for ease of transporting more than one person at a time |
The infected were quarantined on the outskirts of towns or in their own homes, and their pus was used as a vaccine for the healthy.
Sanat AlHadim Year of Demolishing witnessed a great flood in Najd and Qaseem when rain did not stop for fifty eight consecutive days | 4 earthquake in the Saudi Arabian desert on May 19, 2009 |
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Before the advent of mobile photography, studios around Mecca used to offer their clients the chance to do a photoshoot with scenes from Mecca as a background | The Holy Kaaba in Mecca, note the four different structures around the Kaaba outside of the fence |
Two Bedouins from the the Rashid tribe in the Empty Quarter who escorted Wilfred Thesdjer through the Empty Quarter.
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