* January 11 – Mark Thatcher, son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara during the Paris-Dakar Rally.

Sahara Prime City Limited Establishes Partnership with USA ’ s, Turner Construction Company and enters the Indian Construction and Infrastructure Sector.

" The City of Brass " features a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition across the Sahara to find an ancient lost city and attempt to recover a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn, and, along the way, encounter a mummified queen, petrified inhabitants, lifelike humanoid robots and automata, seductive marionettes dancing without strings, and a brass horseman robot who directs the party towards the ancient city, which has now become a ghost town.

The Sahara Steakhouse was the first restaurant in Cave City to obtain a license to sell alcoholic beverages in the city limits a year after it was made legal.

" The City of Brass " features a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition across the Sahara to find an ancient lost city and attempt to recover a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn, and, along the way, encounter a mummified queen, petrified inhabitants, lifelike humanoid robots and automata, seductive marionettes dancing without strings, and a brass horseman robot who directs the party towards the ancient city.

This plot device dates back to the medieval Arabian Nights tale of " The City of Brass ", in which a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition journey across the Sahara to find a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn.

< center >" Caravan Approaching a City in the Vast Desert of Sahara ", from: Stanley and the White Heroes in Africa, by H. B. Scammel, 1890 </ center >< center > Camel train transporting a house, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, ca.

" The City of Brass " features a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition across the Sahara to find an ancient lost city and attempt to recover a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn, and, along the way, encounter a mummified queen, petrified inhabitants, lifelike humanoid robots and automata, seductive marionettes dancing without strings, and a brass horseman robot who directs the party towards the ancient city.

* Tinariwen: from the Sahara to New York City by their former manager Andy Morgan for The Observer

The only media faculty to be recognized all over Gujarat, once accredited as third at all-India level in March 2001 for its courses offered and the strong alumni networking viz Sony, SAB TV, Zee NEWS, NDTV, AAJ TAK, India Today, ETVNetwork, Sahara Samay, Times Now, Times of India, Indian Express, BBC, 1 TV, Forbes India, Hats OFF productions, NewsX, Star Radio City, Big FM, Radio Mirchi, S FM, My FM and many reputed broadcast companies from the Western world.

" The City of Brass " features a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition across the Sahara to find an ancient lost city and attempt to recover a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn, and, along the way, encounter a mummified queen, petrified inhabitants, lifelike humanoid robots and automata, seductive marionettes dancing without strings, and a brass horseman robot who directs the party towards the ancient city.

The Stratosphere is the northernmost of the major Strip casinos and the only one actually in the City of Las Vegas, as the rest of the Strip south of Sahara Avenue is in the unincorporated communities of Paradise and Winchester.

It covers the area of the nations of Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Iran, Italy, Libya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Vatican City, and Western Sahara.

The journey to the Lost City of Gold begins when the group crosses the Sahara desert but two Askari are lost when Swarma trips a trap that opens a pit under the road to the Lost City of Gold.

The series is loosely based on two works by Jules Verne ; his posthumous 1919 novel The Barsac Mission ( L ’ Étonnante Aventure de la mission Barsac, consisting of two volumes-Book 1, Into the Niger Bend and Book 2, City in the Sahara ) as well as his 1896 novel Facing the Flag ( Face au drapeau ).

A small group of these Aryan migrants from Atlantis split from the main body of migrants and went south to the shore of an inland sea in what was then a verdant and lush Sahara where they founded the " City of the Sun ".

* Downtown ( Sectors A, B and C )- this division serves Downtown Las Vegas and areas roughly east of Eastern, south of Owens and north of Sahara Avenue to include the infamous ' Naked City ' and Fremont Street areas.

The flagship real estate project of Sahara Sahara City Homes chain of townships is proposed to be across 217 cities in India.

Sahara has constructed an eco-friendly, self-contained residential city called Amby Valley City in Maharashtara near Lonavala off the Mumbai Pune Expressway.

Sahara is creating a Film City to provide filmmakers with everything they need to make films, television software and commercials.

The section starting at Sahara Avenue and running north to Washington Avenue was designated the City of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Boulevard State Scenic Byway.

Through much of the Las Vegas area, Sahara Avenue comprises the southern boundary of the City of Las Vegas.

The era of Licence Raj ( 1947 – 1990 ) in India created some of Asia's largest conglomerates, such as the Tata Group, Kirloskar Group, Larsen & Toubro, Mahindra Group, Sahara India, ITC Limited, Essar Group, Reliance ADA Group, Reliance Industries, Aditya Birla Group and the Bharti Enterprises.

Nouvelair Limited Company (, ) is a Tunisian airline with its registered office in Tunis, while its head office in the Dhkila Tourist Zone in Monastir, near the Hôtel Sahara Beach.

The company, Sahara Turner Construction Limited was launched today by ‘ Saharasri ’ Subrata Roy Sahara-Managing Worker & Chairman, Sahara India Pariwar, Mr. Nicholas E. Billotti-President and C. E. O., Turner Construction International and Mr. Annat Jain-Managing Partner, Acropolis Capital Group.

Sahara India Power Corporation Limited has also proposed to set up a 2000 MW Coal based power plants in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh at an estimated investment of Rs.

He is also on the board of directors of Sahara One Media and Entertainment Limited of Sahara India Pariwar.

But Columbia's parent company at the time, Coca-Cola, had money in Morocco it could not repatriate, so the studio relented and allowed production to take place in the real Sahara Desert.

It was widespread in the fringes of the Sahara, mainly in the subdesert Great Steppe, the grassy zone between the real desert and the sahel.

On 31 July 2012, India's business group Sahara India Pariwar agreed to buy a controlling stake in New York's landmark Plaza Hotel for $ 570 million, Elad Properties, an Israeli-owned real estate company, said on Monday.

Other ventures of Sahara real estate business are Sahara States – Kanpur, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Hyderabad and Bhopal, Brand malls – Sahara Ganj, Lucknow and Sahara Mall, Gurgaon.

On 31 July 2012, India's business group Sahara India Pariwar agreed to buy a controlling stake in New York's landmark Plaza Hotel for $ 570 million, Elad Properties, an Israeli-owned real estate company, said on Monday.

The estate has hosted the Manhasset negotiations, a round of talks between Morocco and the Polisario Front, August 10 – 12, 2007, as part of a set of UN-led meetings centering on the future of Western Sahara, among others.

Ramada opened its first hotel – a 60-room facility – on U. S. Route 66 at Flagstaff, Arizona in 1954 and set up its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, where the chain built the Sahara Hotel on North 1st Street downtown in 1956 ( which later became the Ramada Inn Downtown ) and a 300-room Ramada Inn in the 3800 block of East Van Buren in 1958 that would become the chain's flagship property and headquarters.

In December 2004, French oil company Total S. A. decided not to renew their license off Western Sahara, leaving Kerr-McGee as the unique oil company exploring in the Moroccan-occupied part of Western Sahara.

In December 2007, the Libyan state oil company Tamoil denied media reports about involvement in oil exploration in Western Sahara.

The statement added: " The company denies emphatically some media reports about an oil investment deal in Western Sahara.

Also that month, the Norwegian state-owned company EWOS stopped the purchases of fish oil from Western Sahara and Morocco ( with an amount of around 10 million euros annually, and estimated between 12. 000 and 20. 000 tons of fish oil in total ), for " not being in line with the norwegian authorities recommendations ".

The company media officer stated: " It turns out that the tomatoes are from Dakhla in occupied Western Sahara, so we are not going to sell them anymore.

In August 2010, The Minnesota-based fertilizer company The Mosaic Company send a mail to Western Sahara Resource Watch where the Social responsibility director of the firm states:

The two parcels give the company complete control of the southwest corner of the Sahara and Las Vegas Boulevard intersection.

On 10 March 2009, Judge John P. Shook ordered Clive Cussler to pay $ 13. 9 million in legal fees to the production company that turned his novel " Sahara " into a motion picture.

In 2003, one of Norway's main private investment funds, Skagen Vekst, sold their € 3. 6 million stake in the oil company, referring to ethic problems surrounding Kerr-McGee's engagement in Western Sahara.

In June 2005, the Norwegian government sold the $ 52. 7 million it had invested in the company through the Government Petroleum Fund ( one of the biggest investment funds of the world ), characterizing Kerr-McGee's contract in Western Sahara as having " particularly serious violations of fundamental ethical norms ".

On May 2, 2006, the company declared its intention to no longer drill off the coast of the Western Sahara, by not renewing the contract signed with Morocco.

* Sahara India Pariwar, an Indian company

At one time, the company was working on a Windows / console version of the Matthew McConaughey movie Sahara, and a video game version of classic sci-fi movie Logan's Run.

Sahara India Pariwar is an Indian conglomerate company headquartered in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Sahara India Life Insurance Company Ltd. ( SILICL ) is the first wholly Indian-owned Life Insurance Company in the private sector. The company offers life insurance policies catring to individuals of all ages and segments.