How to pronounce “desolate” in English

in the 15th and 16th centuries.This desolate place had 500 years ago been at the center of the commerce and cultural life of that period in Northern Africa.It was a place where the river met the desert, where the highest bend of the Niger River, the third longest river in Africa, met the Sahara.

when they managed to get into Timbuktu back then and where one of them had been executed after it was found he was not a Muslim.So it was a desolate, kind of depressing place.But also obviously had this incredibly rich, legendary history behind it.

A lone man wanders a desolate town, where time stands still, and he can’t tell who’s alive and who’s dead.The townspeople tell him disturbing stories of cruelty — all at the hands of his own father.

OK, yeah. Tell us if you know.Everyone looks at it and thinks it's just a desolate, like, apocalypse town.

I was like, yeah, let's go up-tempo on this one that everybody can sing "Doo wop dooby dooby wop." I forgot that before you get to that chorus, you go through some ofthe most depressing, desolate, lonely, desperate verses, where they guy's on the phone.He's like, hello. How are you?

Facebook and Twitter were the only games in town and Instagram didn't even exist.Neither did Pinterest. LinkedIn was desolate.YouTube was on the rise.

I mean it currently isn't, isn't it?But actually, what it represents is a desolate wasteland almost where we've destroyed so much life-- in fact, 25% of mammals in the UK and 50% of birds

as a young man, as a teenager.And I should also point out that not only did Timbuktu become a desolate place, poverty stricken place, but the whole tradition of literature,of learning was lost to the point where enlightenment philosophers in Europe-- Hegel, Locke, Kant-- wrote articles,

Guy over here thinks he's storming the beach at D-day.But they basically were and continue to be the only security that this desolate city hasprotecting it. That essentially is the arc of the story.

He says-- and he's an immigrant from Japan, you see, flower bloom where it is planted.So even in those harsh circumstances, desolate high plains, or the swamps, or the deserts,you try to be the best of yourself.

in the dunes west of Timbuktu.I mean, it was an amazing time in this desolate place that I had visited 1995, completely cut off from the world, transformed in the course of lessthan a decade into this happening town on the edge of the Sahara.

You're going to let me stand here for-- There you are.And we are the dreamers of dreams, wandering by lone sea breakers or sitting by desolate streams, world movers and world foresakers

Stained by the Sea that has made the mistake of draining the sea.So it's no longer by the sea, so it's even more desolate and lonely than it was before."I used to be that young man, almost 13, walking alone down an empty street in a half faded town.

and turning to my companions said, 'Here, gentleman, you have Maria de la Soledad.'" He gave her glass beads for seeds; she nodded.As "the name stuck to the place," Serra made a note to found a mission in that desolate, treeless spot.Soledad later became the hardest luck mission of them all.

I remember this small plane landed me down on the frozen continent.And as you can see from this photo, the landscape out there is crazy, just desolate and surreal, just white in every single direction.I describe it best as it feels like standing inside the belly of a ping pong ball.

is give you a little rundown of the arc of this story and how I happened to come to it.And then I will accompany that with some pictures so you can get a sense of what this very unusual, desolate,but somehow beautiful part of the world is all-- what it looks like, what it's all about.

And they weren't that generous.So we flew in, and we wandered the streets of this ancient town, desolate town.There was a war going on.

This whole desert trade was no longer that important.And as time went on, Timbuktu kind of faded into insignificance of became this, as I have said, this desolate outpost that the Europeans stumbledinto in the 19th century.

So when we were young people, growing up in this universe was nothing.It's almost like all of us in this room, all of us back in the '70s and '80s, regardless of how desolateour lives were, we all had a super power, some of the kids got on the mic.

So some people say, well, Chile is being exploited because people are taking these rocks out of Chile that are very valuable.And then basically, what is Chile getting out of this other than some miners that live in some towns that are pretty desolate and $50million? And the thing is, well, you have to think about, where is that value actually coming from?

and all that sort of stuff.And so we'd go-- whether it was the North Shore, or way out on Smith Point on Nantucket, or kind of very remote, desolate places,that you bounce through the dunes, and take all the air out of your tires, and bounce the whole way out, and set up camp,

The blistering hot desert of Arizona, the sultry swamps of Arkansas, southeastern Arkansas,the cold windswept high plains of Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and two of the most desolate places in California.On April 20, I celebrated my fifth birthday and my parents tell me that they gave me a birthday party, but I don't remember that.

nation of Belarus has taken home 73. But you have to scroll almost to the bottom of the league tables to find India. It sits just above the desolate central Asian republic