Biskra
Americannoun
noun
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They moved to Biskra after the Americans invaded North Africa.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Into the Saharan oasis town of Biskra rolled a cautious column of halftracks loaded with olive-uniformed Algerian troops.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His observations were made in Switzerland, Biskra in the Sahara, Finland, the borders of Russia, and in Norway; but in none of these places were low numbers observed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
Biskra and the Sahara perhaps . . . if I could only get away from the hideous band of tourists.
From The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
After Algiers our Parisians went by way of Constantine to Biskra.
From The Figure In The Mirage 1905 by Robert Smythe Hichens
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