Qasr Al Sarab is in the Liwa Desert, in a region evocatively called the Empty Quarter, and the name is not an instance of poetic license.

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It also has a well laid-out visitors centre and an exhibition devoted to Wilfred Thesiger, the British explorer who made the Gulf his home in the 1940s and twice crossed the Empty Quarter in southern Arabia.

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In mid-July Shell began the first of seven wildcat wells it will drill this year in the Kingdom's Rub al-Khali, a desert known as the Empty Quarter (a name Van der Veer hopes is merely metaphorical).

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He opened up his new place, Stanley's(ph), even before the Quarter officially reopened, an oasis on a street full of empty storefronts.

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Despite fears that Las Vegas would suffer from an excess of new hotels, a torrent of visitors left not a single room empty for a single day at MGM Grand's namesake casino-hotel in the second quarter.

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