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  2. Rancho Mirage, California - Wikipedia

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    1661281, 2411515. Website. www .ranchomirageca .gov. Rancho Mirage is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. The city is a low-density desert-resort community with resorts, golf courses, and country clubs within the Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert.

  3. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna: Why the economy has slowed, and how ...

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    IBM's first quarter shed light on the mixed economic backdrop in the US as higher interest rates take hold. Big Blue's first quarter sales rose 1% from the prior year to $14.5 billion, falling ...

  4. Looming and similar refraction phenomena - Wikipedia

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    The middle frame shows looming with towering. The lowest frame is a 5-image superior mirage of the islands. As the image shows, the different refraction phenomena are not independent from each other and may occur together as a combination, depending on atmospheric conditions. See also. Mirage of astronomical objects; Fata Morgana (mirage)

  5. Mirage - Wikipedia

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    Mirage. Various kinds of mirages in one location taken over the course of six minutes, not shown in chronological order. [a] A mirage is a naturally-occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays bend via refraction to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. [1] The word comes to English via the French (se) mirer, from the ...

  6. Fata Morgana (mirage) - Wikipedia

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    Hy Brasil is an island that was said to appear once every few years off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland. Hy Brasil has been drawn on ancient maps as a perfectly circular island with a river running directly through it. Lake Ontario Fata Morgana on Lake Ontario in Ajax. Top image shows a regular view and the bottom shows the mirage effect ...

  7. Fata Morgana Land - Wikipedia

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    Greenland Sea. Fata Morgana Land ( Danish: Fata Morgana Landet) is a phantom island first sighted in the Arctic, off the north-eastern coast of Greenland in 1907 by J.P. Koch and Aage Bertelsen. It has been reported between Greenland and Svalbard, at the northern end of the Greenland Sea. It is a reflection of the nearby Tobias Island and does ...

  8. Canary Islands - Wikipedia

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    Graciosa Island or commonly La Graciosa is a volcanic island in the Canary Islands of Spain, located 2 km (1.2 mi) north of the island of Lanzarote across the Strait of El Río. It was formed by the Canary hotspot. The island is part of the Chinijo Archipelago and the Chinijo Archipelago Natural Park (Parque Natural del Archipiélago Chinijo).

  9. Lokrum - Wikipedia

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    Lokrum (pronounced, Italian: Lacroma) is an island in the Adriatic Sea 600 metres (1,969 feet) from the city of Dubrovnik, Croatia.It stretches from northwest to southeast and receives regular ferry service from the Old City port.