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The Mirage is an alternate history novel by American writer Matt Ruff, published in 2012 by Harper. The book centers on Mustafa, Samir, and Amal, who are agents of Halal, an organization of the United Arab States, a Middle Eastern version of the United States. The agents discover artifacts of our world and begin a quest to discover the truth.
Slowly the mirage began to fade away, to the disappointment of thousands who crowded the roofs of houses and office buildings. A bank of clouds was the cause of the disappearance of the mirage. A close examination of the map showed the mirage did not cause the slightest distortion, the gradual rise of the city from the water being rendered ...
The Mirage (Arabic السراب Al-Sarab) is a 1948 Egyptian novel by Naguib Mahfouz. [1] The novel was filmed as al-Sarab (The Mirage) by Anwar al-Shinawi. [2] Mahfouz has said that it is a personal novel based on his upbringing. Novel translated to English by Nancy Roberts.
The Mirage was the first megaresort to open on the Las Vegas Strip, and its success prompted a building boom in the 1990s for other large resorts along the Strip. The Mirage opened with several non-traditional attractions for a Las Vegas casino, including animal habitats for dolphins and tigers, and an indoor tropical forest display.
The Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, and its instantly recognizable volcano, is soon shutting down after more than three decades in business.. The 3,000-room resort will cease ...
The Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip is closing Wednesday, ending 34 years in business.
The iconic Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doors this summer, the end of an era for a property credited with helping transform Sin City into an ultra-luxury resort ...
The poem is also connected to the 1918–1919 flu pandemic. In the weeks preceding Yeats′s writing of the poem, his pregnant wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees, caught the virus and was very close to death, but she survived. The highest death rates of the pandemic were among pregnant women, who in some areas had a death rate of up to 70%.