• Thumbnail for Simoom
    Simoom (Arabic: سموم samūm; from the root س م م s-m-m, سم "to poison") is a strong, hot, dry, dust-laden wind. The word is generally used to describe a...
    12 KB (1,720 words) - 15:16, 12 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMS Simoom (P225)
    HMS Simoom was a third-batch S-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during World War II. She was laid down on 14 July 1941 and launched on 12 October...
    12 KB (1,354 words) - 16:52, 1 February 2025
  • Simoom is a strong, dry, dust-laden local wind in Sahara, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and the Arabian Peninsula. Simoom may also refer to: "Simoon", a song...
    1,001 bytes (161 words) - 00:18, 26 August 2020
  • Operation Simoom (Polish: Operacja Samum) was a top secret Polish intelligence operation conducted in Iraq in 1990. In 1990 the CIA asked European intelligence...
    6 KB (588 words) - 03:40, 22 November 2024
  • Lois V. Vierk (redirect from Simoom (album))
    (1985) for 4 Bassoons and 4 Celli Manhattan Cascade (1985) for 4 Accordions Simoom (1986) for 8 Cellos Cirrus (1987) for 6 Trumpets Attack Cat Polka (1988)...
    7 KB (725 words) - 11:32, 10 November 2024
  • Simoom Sound is a sound on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located on the east and north sides of the Wishart Peninsula between Tribune...
    2 KB (213 words) - 16:22, 7 May 2024
  • ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Simoom, after the desert wind, the Simoom: HMS Simoom was to have been a wooden paddle frigate, but she...
    1 KB (195 words) - 15:06, 15 December 2021
  • Thumbnail for Haboob
    Intertropical Convergence Zone Khamsin Mistral (wind) Outflow boundary Simoom Sirocco Haboob at the Encyclopædia Britannica Farquharson, J. S. (1937)...
    12 KB (1,378 words) - 12:51, 24 April 2025
  • Project Simoom was the name of a business case involving the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) and Saudi Arabia, which aimed to build a propellant...
    3 KB (207 words) - 11:02, 9 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Khamsin
    šarqiyya, "eastern") which blows in winter over much of the Middle East, and simoom.[citation needed] From the Arabic word for "fifty", these dry, sand-filled...
    11 KB (1,303 words) - 18:44, 22 May 2025
  • Passion in the Desert, or Simoom: A Passion in the Desert, is a 1997 film from director Lavinia Currier based on the 1830 short story "A Passion in the...
    8 KB (778 words) - 17:08, 14 April 2025
  • "all the trees of the earth, its plants, the rain, the dew, the heat, the simoom, the wind and as many [atmospheric phenomena] as there are in summer and...
    3 KB (398 words) - 23:05, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dust storm
    and sand storms which come off the Sahara Desert are locally known as a simoom or simoon. The haboob is a sandstorm prevalent in the region of Sudan around...
    21 KB (2,284 words) - 14:15, 17 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMS Simoom (1849)
    HMS Simoom was an iron frigate converted to an iron screw troopship. She was laid down in October 1845; however, on 23 April 1847 her frigate design was...
    8 KB (850 words) - 19:02, 30 April 2024
  • Nār as samūm (Arabic: نار السموم, meaning "fire of poison"; also spelled Simoom or Semum; from the root س م م s-m-m, سم "to poison") is a concept in Islam...
    10 KB (1,232 words) - 13:58, 3 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMS Simoom (1918)
    HMS Simoom (sometimes incorrectly spelt Simoon) was an S-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. Launched on 26 January 1918, the vessel operated...
    9 KB (932 words) - 09:22, 18 June 2022
  • Simoom Sound is a post office located at Echo Bay, British Columbia, Canada, on Gilford Island in the Central Coast region adjacent to the body of water...
    5 KB (200 words) - 03:42, 10 September 2023
  • Samiel may refer to: Simoom, a strong, dry, dust-laden wind Samael, an archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore Samiel, a fictional character in the...
    260 bytes (62 words) - 04:31, 20 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Simoom (1916)
    HMS Simoom (sometimes incorrectly spelled Simoon) was an R-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during World War I. Launched on 30 October...
    9 KB (922 words) - 14:25, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Echo Bay, British Columbia
    the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is the location of the Simoom Sound post office, which used to be on the nearby Wishart Peninsula facing...
    4 KB (75 words) - 08:24, 14 February 2025
  • Linda, and Olaf Lubaszenko. The film is a fictional account of Operation Simoom, a top secret Polish intelligence operation to withdraw CIA agents before...
    7 KB (901 words) - 03:38, 22 December 2024
  • Harmattan in the western Maghreb, Sirocco, a south wind from the Sahara and Simoom in the Arabian Peninsula. Tsiokantimo (strong south wind blowing southwest...
    18 KB (2,123 words) - 03:55, 13 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Monsoon
    cyclone Tropical cyclone Atlantic hurricane Typhoon Storm surge Dust storm Simoom Haboob Monsoon Amihan Gale Sirocco Firestorm Winter storm Ice storm Blizzard...
    56 KB (5,694 words) - 11:59, 22 May 2025
  • Simoom, a strong, dry, dust-laden local wind in Sahara, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and the Arabian Peninsula Caudron Simoun, a 1930s aircraft Simoun (TV...
    730 bytes (120 words) - 10:53, 10 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Summer
    cyclone Tropical cyclone Atlantic hurricane Typhoon Storm surge Dust storm Simoom Haboob Monsoon Amihan Gale Sirocco Firestorm Winter storm Ice storm Blizzard...
    20 KB (2,160 words) - 20:34, 17 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lightning
    cyclone Tropical cyclone Atlantic hurricane Typhoon Storm surge Dust storm Simoom Haboob Monsoon Amihan Gale Sirocco Firestorm Winter storm Ice storm Blizzard...
    136 KB (14,459 words) - 00:42, 20 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Heat wave
    cyclone Tropical cyclone Atlantic hurricane Typhoon Storm surge Dust storm Simoom Haboob Monsoon Amihan Gale Sirocco Firestorm Winter storm Ice storm Blizzard...
    53 KB (9,253 words) - 12:08, 15 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for British S-class submarine (1931)
    Losses continued to be high. Nine boats; P222, Saracen, Sahib, Sickle, Simoom, Splendid, Stonehenge, Stratagem and Syrtis were lost during the war, and...
    20 KB (1,794 words) - 12:55, 17 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Temperate climate
    cyclone Tropical cyclone Atlantic hurricane Typhoon Storm surge Dust storm Simoom Haboob Monsoon Amihan Gale Sirocco Firestorm Winter storm Ice storm Blizzard...
    19 KB (2,075 words) - 00:13, 8 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Horsepower
    380 140 2.70 Spiteful 796 280 2.85 Jackal 455 150 3.03 Supply 265 80 3.31 Simoom 1,576 400 3.94 Hector 3,256 800 4.07 Agincourt 6,867 1,350 5.08 Bellerophon...
    48 KB (5,552 words) - 17:18, 26 April 2025