There is little water or plant life, and scant protection from the strong sun. Yet there are many species of insects, reptiles, birds, and mammals in the deserts. The human race is so dependent upon water that we find it hard to understand how any animal life can exist without what seems to us an adequate water supply. Military personnel are required to salute their officers, and when possible the officers must return the salute. Planes and ships also exchange salutes.
Pilots often dip the wings of their planes, and ships salute by dipping their flags.
Once, when the general was riding to consult some trops, the snow was deep. The general leaped down , pushed he soldier aside, and marched in the soldier's place. In 1922 the news spread quickly around the world that the Lord Carnarvon of England and Howard Carter of the United States had found in their excavations the undisturbed tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh who had lived fourteen centuries before Christ. The pharaoh was Tutankhamen, often referred to as King Tut. A zoo director conducted experiments with life-size vinyl figures of lions, zebras, ad rhinos in the African wildlife preserve.