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Amateur film

Pooja Umashankar a well known Sinhala-Tamil Star debuted in AFI opposite Abhishek Venkteshwar in Mirage.

Camp Mirage

The exact location of Camp Mirage and the nature of its mission(s) are not officially acknowledged by the Canadian Forces or the Government of Canada, however, it has been widely reported that the facility is located at Al Minhad Air Base, operated by the United Arab Emirates Air Force.

Christopher Skase

On the eve of the 1990 economic recession, his two "Mirage" resorts in Port Douglas, Queensland were among the largest in the country and Skase played a key role in putting the formerly small town on the international tourist map.

City Pier A

The pier was briefly featured in the 1965 thriller Mirage with Gregory Peck and Diane Baker.

Electro-optical MASINT

Schlieren analysis is based on the principle that any disturbances to the surrounding air may be detected (the Schlieren effect), like the shadow cast by the sun through the steam and hot air from a hot coffee, or even the Mirage wave effect caused by the hot air on pavement on a summer day.

Faery: Legends of Avalon

The mythical worlds that serve as the game's setting are drawn from preexisting mythologies, and include the ghost ship Flying Dutchman, the great tree Yggdrasil, and the City of Mirage, which is built on the back of a giant beetle.

Flight of Black Angel

Eddie lands in Garrison, Utah to hide his Mirage in a deserted barn, but is accidentally discovered by a family on vacation: Richard (Michael Keys Hall) and Valerie (Michele Pawk) Dwyer and their baby.

Giora Epstein

He went on to command Mirage and Kfir squadrons and was flying "ready" missions in the F-16 up until his 60th birthday.

Gitanes

In the original Transformers series, Mirage transforms into a Formula One Ligier racecar sponsored by "Citanes" (altered so as to get past the law forbidding tobacco advertising).

Gold Coast Broadwater

western Spit foreshores (including Sea World, Fishing fleet, Versace Hotel, Marina Mirage, Fishermans Wharf, Water Police, Sea Scouts and the Southport Yacht Club)

Guido Guidi

His more recent work includes The Transformers: Spotlight issues on Galvatron and Mirage, profile art for the Beast Wars: Sourcebook series and the final issue of Beast Wars: The Ascending, as well as work on issue 5 of Titan UK's Transformers magazine.

Isn't It Midnight

This was the second official Fleetwood Mac song to be released on the 3" CD single format as well being issued on 7" and 12" vinyl. All formats contained the Tango in the Night track "Mystified", and the CD and 12" included the bonus tracks "Say You Love Me" (from 1975; it had previously been included as a bonus track on the "Everywhere" CD single) and "Gypsy" (from the 1982 album Mirage).

Jerry Greenberg

Jerry L. Greenberg, President of Mirage Music Entertainment and former President of Atlantic Records, ATCO, UA/MGM, WTG, MJJ/Sony Music

Loveholic

The band's song "신기루 (Mirage)" also was used as the ending theme to the Japanese anime Black Blood Brothers soon after the song's album release.

Magic: The Gathering video games

Included are cards from all expansions starting with Mirage with the exception of the parody sets Unhinged and Unglued which would not easily translate to computer play.

Mirage Magazine

Mirage's subject matter predominantly focuses on timeless aesthetics in the fields of architectural-, automotive- and product design combined with features about forgotten utopias and influential creative personalities like Robert Evans or Peter Saville.

Mirage Men

Mirage Men is a 2013 documentary film directed by John Lundberg, written by Mark Pilkington and co-directed by Roland Denning and Kypros Kyprianou.

Mark Pilkington's book about the project, also called Mirage Men, was published in 2010 by Constable & Robinson.

Mirage Publishing

The biggest accolade to be achieved by Mirage Publishing was to see its book Burnt (ISBN 1-902578-28-7), by Scottish author Ian Colquhoun, being held aloft by Richard Madeley on Richard & Judy on UK TV.

Mirage Tavern

The Mirage Tavern was a drinking establishment at 731 N. Wells St. in Chicago purchased by the Chicago Sun-Times in 1977 to investigate widespread allegations of official corruption and shakedowns visited on small businesses by city officials.

Mitsubishi Attrage

The Mitsubishi Attrage, also known as the Mitsubishi Mirage G4, is a front-wheel drive subcompact car from Mitsubishi Motors.

According to Masaaki Yamada, senior adviser for Mitsubishi Motors Philippines, the car will use the Mirage G4 name in the Philippine market, as the Attrage has a negative connotation in the Filipino language.

Moonstar

Danielle Moonstar (also known by the codenames Moonstar, Psyche and Mirage), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics X-Men franchise.

Nolan Thomas

A full length LP was released by Mirage/Atco/Atlantic Records in 1984, which yielded two more singles to modest success.

Operation Daisy

Fifteen minutes before the attack, Buccaneer bombers attacked the PLAN positions followed minutes later by Mirage bombers that came under fire from SA-7 missiles and 23 mm AA guns and further attacks were called in throughout the morning.

Later on the same day a SAAF Mirage shot down an Angolan MiG-21.

Operation Meebos

The Tactical headquarters at the HAA began planning another mission consisting of an air attack by Mirage's followed by a helicopter troop assault with air protection by Alouette gunships.

Patrick Experton

A graduate of the French Air Force Academy Class of 1962, Patrick Experton was first assigned to the EC Roussillon flying Mirage IIIE aircraft then to the EC Alsace in Dijon, also flying Mirage III.

Qatar Air Force

As of January 2011, the Air Force is evaluating the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, the Boeing F-15E and the Dassault Rafale to replace its current fighter inventory of Dassault Mirage 2000-5s.

Quantel Mirage

One famous Mirage user was Mike Oldfield, who purchased one for his extensive home music studio and video production facility.

Radius Ensemble

For the 2008-2009 season guest artists include Robin Young (of radio station WBUR) as narrator for the Holocaust-inspired There is wind and there are ashes in the wind by Osvaldo Golijov, Robert D. Levin on piano for the Mozart Quintet in E-flat major for piano and winds, K.452, Marcus Thompson on viola for the Brahms String quintet in F, Op. 88, and Fenwick Smith on flute for Shulamit Ran's Mirage for Five Players.

Remos GX

The G3 Mirage/GX has been produced to meet both European ultralight and US LSA regulations.

Reni Jusis

In 1993, she performed in the musical Fatamorgana ("Mirage") with the music of her school friend Adam Sztaba at the Baltycki Teatr Dramatyczny in Koszalin.

Rise 2: Resurrection

The in-game music features hard-rock themed music by Tom Grimshaw at Mirage, and a theme by Queen's guitarist Brian May entitled "Cyborg".

Robert Taylor incident

It has been suggested by investigative science writer Steuart Campbell that Taylor actually witnessed a mirage of Venus, which induced an epileptic fit causing him to hallucinate the whole encounter.

St Paul's College, University of Sydney

Usually held in the quadrangle, recent themes have included School of Rock (2007- including a guest performance by Austrian glam-metal band Gerspunken), Neon Mirage (2005 – Las Vegas) and Circus Royale (2004).

Upswept Hare

Bugs gets into the pool and realizes that he is not in his stream but thinks his surroundings are a mirage so he plays along by splashing around and singing "There's no place like home" but instead substituting Rome for home.

Vlado Jovanovski

His film credits include principal roles in prominent Macedonian films such as Bal-Can-Can and Mirage.


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