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Bally's Las Vegas
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Ballys Las Vegas is a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. The hotel features 2,814 extra-sized guestrooms that are 450 sq ft or larger and over 175,000 sq ft of banquet, the casino occupies 67,000 sq ft. About 75% of the rooms are in the Indigo Tower, and were renovated in 2004, the remaining rooms are located in the Jubilee Tower, constructed in 1981. The resort has a shopping area a floor below its gaming level, including several restaurants. Ballys was home for the long-running production show Jubilee, which opened in 1981 and ended on February 11,2016. On November 21,1980, the hotel, then operating as the MGM Grand, was the site of one of the worst high-rise fires in United States history, the 43 acres site was first occupied by the Three Coins Motel, which opened in 1963. The Bonanza Hotel and Casino opened on the site in July 1967 and it was later renamed the New Bonanza Hotel and Casino in 1973 shortly before construction of the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, owned by Kirk Kerkorian, began. It opened in 1973 with 2,084 rooms for the then-staggering cost of $106m and was the largest hotel in the world at that time, the MGM Grand opened as one of Las Vegass first megaresorts on December 5,1973. Dean Martin was the entertainer on opening night and it was the largest hotel in the world at its opening and would remain so for several years. The hotel had a theme to reflect Kirk Kerkorians interest in movies from his ownership of MGM. The hotel was designed by architect Martin Stern, Jr and it featured many amenities, including numerous entertainment options. It offered live jai alai for betting and a shopping arcade with numerous shops. It was also one of the Strips most popular entertainment destinations and it featured two large theaters, The Ziegfeld Stage and the Celebrity Room. The Ziegfeld regularly featured productions by famed Las Vegas choreographer Donn Arden including the long running Jubilee. Dean Martin was the starring act for the Grand Opening on December 23,1973. Sergio Franchi was the first entertainer signed to star in the Celebrity Room, franchis frequent co-star was comedian Joan Rivers. The Celebrity Room also hosted such acts as The Carpenters and Barry Manilow, the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast shows were filmed at the hotel. On November 21,1980 the MGM Grand suffered a fire started in a casino restaurant and traveled up into the hotel, killing 87 guests. The Grand was rebuilt in only eight months, and remodeling added a tower opened in 1981
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Paradise, Nevada
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Paradise is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States, adjacent to the city of Las Vegas. The population was 223,167 at the 2010 census, making it the most populous unincorporated community in Nevada, as an unincorporated town, it is governed by the Clark County Commission with input from the Paradise Town Advisory Board. Paradise was formed on December 8,1950, Paradise contains McCarran International Airport, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and most of the Las Vegas Strip. Paradise contains most tourist attractions in the Las Vegas area, excluding downtown, despite this, the name Paradise remains relatively unknown. All Paradise ZIP codes have Las Vegas mailing addresses, the southern part of the Las Vegas Valley was referred to as Paradise Valley as early as 1910, owing to a high water table that made the land particularly fertile for farming. County commissioners established a Paradise school district in 1914, the commission voted to create the unincorporated township of Paradise on December 8,1950. In 1975, Nevada enacted a law that would have incorporated Paradise into the City of Las Vegas, before it could take effect, however, the bill was struck down as unconstitutional by the Nevada Supreme Court. According to the United States Census Bureau, the place of Paradise has a total area of 46.7 square miles. At the census of 2010, there were 223,167 people residing in Paradise. The racial makeup was 59. 8% White,8. 9% African American,0. 8% Native American,9. 5% Asian,1. 0% Pacific Islander, and 5. 5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 31. 2% of the population and 46. 3% of the population was non-Hispanic White. As of the census of 2000, there were 186,070 people,77,209 households, the population density was 3,947.3 people per square mile. There were 85,398 housing units at a density of 1,811.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 72. 51% White,6. 59% African American,0. 77% Native American,6. 52% Asian,0. 59% Pacific Islander,8. 37% from other races, and 4. 65% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 23. 47% of the population,31. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the family size was 3.04. In the CDP, the population was out with 21. 2% under the age of 18,10. 8% from 18 to 24,33. 3% from 25 to 44,23. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 35 years, for every 100 females there were 109.1 males
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Las Vegas Boulevard
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Las Vegas Boulevard is a major road in the Las Vegas Valley of Nevada, best known for the Las Vegas Strip portion of the road and its casinos. Las Vegas Boulevard runs the length of the Las Vegas metropolitan area in Clark County, the Boulevard, as it is sometimes called by longtime Las Vegas residents, starts at Apex, and continues south to about 2 mi south of Jean, in the Mojave Desert. The Boulevard shows up again in Primm, Nevada but is not connected to the northern sections. There are tentative plans to connect the section at Primm to the northern section at Jean. The north/south street address demarcation boundary is located at Fremont Street, at its northern end in Apex, the Boulevard starts in an industrial complex of manufacturing plants and power plants running along the Union Pacific Railroad line. Traveling south, the road meets Nellis Air Force Base on the east side, as the road enters the city of North Las Vegas, it passes through some of the older commercial areas in the region. On crossing Washington Avenue, the Boulevard is designated as the Downtown Las Vegas Boulevard Scenic Byway by the state and this designation continues south to Sahara Avenue. Further south is a stretch of road that has many of the older motels, bars, the Boulevard leaves the city of Las Vegas at Sahara Avenue and assumes its unofficial name the Las Vegas Strip for the next 4 miles. This portion of Las Vegas Boulevard begins a few blocks to the north at the Stratosphere and this is the section of the road most people are familiar with, it is home to casino megaresorts with their world-famous lights, huge video signs and other attractions. It is designated as an All-American Road, just past the end of The Strip, the road passes the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign as it abuts the western edge of the McCarran International Airport property. The South Strip is now used to describe the section of Las Vegas Boulevard between Russell Road and Blue Diamond Road. Along this stretch, development thins out except for newer shopping malls, hotels and condominiums as the Boulevard continues to travel south, Route 117 serves the southern end of Las Vegas Boulevard from the SSTT south towards Las Vegas Premium Outlet Stores, South Point Casino and Silverado Ranch. Las Vegas Boulevard has had names, including 5th Street, Main Street. South of the city, Las Vegas Boulevard was commonly known as the Los Angeles Highway, just north of Jean is the place where the last spike on the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad line was driven. With the construction of I-15, Las Vegas Boulevard went from being the main road to one that only served as a city street for locals. Its current name, in effect since 1959, reflects its importance to the Valley rather than past names when it served as a main intra-city road, on October 16,2009, the Federal Highway Administration announced the designation of a new National Scenic Byway on the boulevard. The 3. 5-mile section starting at Sahara Avenue and running north to Washington Avenue was designated the City of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Boulevard State Scenic Byway, Nevada portal Las Vegas portal U. S. Roads portal Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection Las Vegas Strip Media related to Las Vegas Boulevard at Wikimedia Commons
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Art Deco
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Art Deco, sometimes simply referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. It took its name, short for Arts Decorators, from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes held in Paris in 1925 and it combined modernist styles with fine craftsmanship and rich materials. During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, Art Deco was a pastiche of many different styles, sometimes contradictory, united by a desire to be modern. It featured rare and expensive materials such as ebony and ivory, the Chrysler Building and other skyscrapers of New York were the most visible monuments of the new style. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the became more subdued. New materials arrived, including chrome plating, stainless steel and plastic, a more sleek form of the style, called Streamline Moderne, appeared in the 1930s, it featured curving forms and smooth, polished surfaces. Art Deco became one of the first truly international architectural styles, with examples found in European cities, the style came to an end with the beginning of World War II. Deco was replaced as the dominant global style by the functional and unadorned styles of modernism. The term arts décoratifs was first used in France in 1858, in 1868, Le Figaro newspaper used the term art décoratifs with respect to objects for stage scenery created for the Théâtre de lOpéra. In 1875, furniture designers, textile, jewelry and glass designers and it took its present name of ENSAD in 1927. The term Art déco was then used in a 1966 newspaper article by Hillary Gelson in the Times, describing the different styles at the exhibit. Art Deco gained currency as a broadly applied stylistic label in 1968 when historian Bevis Hillier published the first major book on the style. Hillier noted that the term was already being used by art dealers and cites The Times, in 1971, Hillier organized an exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, which he details in his book about it, The World of Art Deco. The emergence of Art Deco was closely connected with the rise in status of decorative artists, the term arts décoratifs had been invented in 1875, giving the designers of furniture, textiles, and other decoration official status. The Société des artistes décorateurs, or SAD, was founded in 1901, a similar movement developed in Italy. The first international exhibition devoted entirely to the arts, the Esposizione international dArte decorative moderna, was held in Turin in 1902. Several new magazines devoted to decorative arts were founded in Paris, including Arts et décoration, Decorative arts sections were introduced into the annual salons of the Sociéte des artistes français, and later in the Salon dautomne. French nationalism also played a part in the resurgence of decorative arts, in 1911 the SAD proposed the holding of a major new international exposition of decorative arts in 1912
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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Brad Garrett
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Brad Garrett is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor and professional poker player. He has appeared in television and film roles. Garrett was initially successful as a comedian in the early 1980s. Taking advantage of that success in the late 1980s, Garrett began appearing in television and film, in minor and his first major role was Robert Barone on the CBS series Everybody Loves Raymond. The series debuted September 13,1996 and ran for nine seasons, hood vs. Evil and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Out of the Shadows. Garrett also played the role of Eddie Stark on the Fox television series Til Death from 2006 to 2010. Garrett has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, with three other nominations and he is still prominent within stand-up comedy and is also a professional poker player. Garrett is recognized for his height of 68, and his deep voice. Garrett was born in Woodland Hills, California and he is the son of Barbara, a homemaker, and Albert Al Gerstenfeld, a hearing aid salesman. He is Jewish, and celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah, Garrett has two older brothers, Jeff and Paul. He attended George Ellery Hale Middle School and graduated from El Camino Real High School, Garrett attended UCLA for less than two months before dropping out to pursue his comedy career. Garrett started out at various clubs in Los Angeles, including The Improv in Hollywood. In 1984, he became the first $100,000 grand champion winner in the category of the TV show Star Search. This led to his first appearance, at age 23, on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and his appearance with Carson brought Garrett a lot of national attention, and soon he was appearing as an opening act for such headliners as Diana Ross and Liza Minnelli. He also opened in Las Vegas for Frank Sinatra, David Copperfield, Smokey Robinson, Sammy Davis, Jr. the Beach Boys, The Righteous Brothers and Julio Iglesias. After achieving a measure of success with stand-up comedy, Garrett decided to change gears. From 1985-1986, he was the voice of Hulk Hogan for the cartoon series Hulk Hogans Rock n Wrestling, Funny Women Week during November sweeps. He also appeared for a week on the game show Super Password in 1987 and he also appeared on Hollywood Squares including a memorable moment when he impersonated Bill Cosby during a question about Jell-o
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David Copperfield (illusionist)
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David Seth Kotkin, known professionally as David Copperfield, is an American illusionist, described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history. Copperfields television specials have won 21 Emmy Awards of a total 38 nominations, Copperfield has so far sold 33 million tickets and grossed over $4 billion, which is more than any other solo entertainer in history. In 2015, Forbes listed his earnings at $63 million for the previous 12 months, when not performing, he manages his chain of eleven resort islands in the Bahamas, which he calls Musha Cay and the Islands of Copperfield Bay. Copperfields mother was born in Jerusalem while his grandparents were Jewish immigrants from USSR. In 1974, Copperfield graduated from Metuchen High School, when Copperfield was 10, he began practicing magic as Davino the Boy Magician in his neighborhood, and at the age of 12, became the youngest person admitted to the Society of American Magicians. Shy and a loner, the young Copperfield saw magic as a way of fitting in and, later, as a way to get girls. As a child, Copperfield attended a day camp called Camp Harmony, in nearby Warren, New Jersey, where he began practicing magic and ventriloquy, at Camp Harmony, we spent two weeks searching for a guide who’d been kidnapped by Indians. It was just a game, but I was living it and my whole life goes back to that camp experience when I was three or four. As a teenager, Copperfield became fascinated with Broadway and frequently sneaked into shows, by age 16, he was teaching a course in magic at New York University. At age 18, Copperfield enrolled at New York Citys Jesuit based school Fordham University, however, three weeks into his freshman year he left Fordham to play the lead role of the musical The Magic Man in Chicago. It was on occasion that he adopted the stage name David Copperfield. Copperfield sang, danced and created most of the illusions used in the show. The Magic Man became the longest running musical in Chicagos history, at age 19, he was headlining at the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii for several months. Copperfields career in began in earnest when he was discovered by Joseph Cates. Cates produced a special in 1977 for ABC called The Magic of ABC hosted by Copperfield. There have been 17 Copperfield TV specials and 2 documentaries between September 7,1977, and April 3,2001, Copperfield also played the character of The Magician in the 1980s horror film Terror Train and an uncredited appearance in the 1994s film Prêt-à-Porter. Most of his appearances have been through television specials and guest spots on television programs. A helicopter hovered overhead to give a view of the illusion
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Jabbawockeez
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The Jabbawockeez is a hip-hop dance crew best known for being the winners of the first season of Americas Best Dance Crew. They were initially formed by members Kevin KB Brewer, Phil Swagger Boy Tayag, by 2004, their members included Ben B-Tek Chung, Chris Cristyle Gatdula, Rynan Kid Rainen Paguio, and Jeff Phi Nguyen. Tony Transformer Tran joined the crew in 2013, the Jabbawockeez do not have a group leader, choreography for their performances, as well as music and design choices, is made as a collective unit. Phil Swagger Boy Tayag, Kevin KB Brewer, Joe Punkee Larot began performing as a trio called Three Muskee in Sacramento, California while wearing white masks, the mask and glove motif was adopted as a tribute to the 1970s San Francisco strutting crew Medea Sirkas. Gary Gee One Kendall and Randy DJ Wish One Bernal were both members of the MindTricks dance crew who were active in the San Francisco Bay Area, both the MindTricks dance crew and the Three Muskee were friends and associates with each other. Tayag, Brewer, and Larot all later moved to the San Diego area, established in 2003 in San Diego, California, Jabbawockeez is the brainchild of the Three Musky who wanted to showcase freestyle dance. The name Jabbawockeez, coined by Joe Larot, was inspired by the monster from the Lewis Carroll nonsense poem Jabberwocky. The white masks and gloves from Phil, Kevin, and Joes performances as Three Musky were adopted as the signature of the group. In San Diego, through Garys connections, the Jabbawockeez added b-boys Rynan Kid Rainen Paguio, the original seven member iteration of the Jabbawockeez began performing as a group in 2004. This lineup consisted of Gary, Randy, Phil, Kevin, Joe, Rynan, Jabbawockeez rounded out their numbers with additional members, bringing their total to eleven. Phoenix native Jeff Phi Nguyen had met Rynan Paguio at various Los Angeles area auditions and performances, the Jabbawockeez also brought Kaba Modern alumnus Ben B-Tek Chung and b-boys Eddie Eddiestyles Gutierrez and Saso Saso Fresh Jimenez into the fold. In 2007, the JabbaWockeeZ appeared on the season of Americas Got Talent. Performing with nine members, the group was eliminated in the Las Vegas callbacks episode, in 2008, they auditioned and were accepted onto the first season of Americas Best Dance Crew. The Jabbawockeez auditioned as a contingent for the first season of Americas Best Dance Crew. The group chose Ben Chung to replace Joe on the show and left Garys spot vacant and they eventually went on to become the winners of the show. The win earned the crew $100,000 and they also made a cameo appearance in Step Up 2 The Streets, launched their own clothing line, and toured with New Kids on the Block, and Jesse McCartney. Along with the ABDC season two winner, Super Cr3w, Jabbawockeez were the act for the Battle of the VMAs ABDC special. The group also made an appearance on Cycle 13 of Americas Next Top Model during the episode Dance With Me to help the contestants learn how to convey emotions with their bodies and they also starred in Shake It Up, a Disney Channel Comedy Show
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MGM Grand Garden Arena
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The MGM Grand Garden Arena is a multi-purpose arena located within the MGM Grand Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip. From 1996 to 2000, it hosted wrestlings WCW Halloween Havoc PPV event, the UWF television event Blackjack Brawl was held at the venue in 1994. As of May 2015, the arena has held 35 Ultimate Fighting Championship events, on September 7,1996, Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson was held here, later that night, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot in a drive-by attack. He eventually succumbed to his injuries six days later, on May 2,2015 Floyd Mayweather Jr defended his world title in a highly anticipated match against fellow superstar Manny Pacquiao. The fight went the distance and Floyd Money Mayweather Jr retained his title, the faces of the sold out crowd were fashion and entertainment icons such as hip-hop artist Jay-Z, UFC fighter Ronda Rousey and former NBA basketball player Michael Jordan. In 1994, the Las Vegas Dustdevils an indoor team in the Continental Indoor Soccer League played one season at the arena. It also previously served through 2015 as the home for select Los Angeles Kings games against the Colorado Avalanche, Phoenix Coyotes and San Jose Sharks. During the 1990s, the served as the site for the WAC womens volleyball tournament. The Professional Bull Riders held its annual World Finals event at the MGM Arena from 1994 to 1998 before moving to the Thomas & Mack Center in 1999 and then to T-Mobile Arena in 2016. On March 13,2012, it was announced that the Pac-12 Mens Basketball Tournament would take place at the arena from at least 2013 through 2016, the MGM Grand Main Event features two four-team brackets, with each team playing two games in Las Vegas. Opening round games are played on campus, the arena has hosted many editions of WCW Monday Nitro. On October 4,2014, MGM GGA held an NHL preseason game between the Colorado Avalanche and the Los Angeles Kings, on October 24,2014, MGM GGA held an NBA preseason game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6,2000. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, the series concluded on September 27,2015, after 15 seasons, with a feature-length finale titled Immortality. The team is led by Gil Grissom, a socially-awkward forensic entomologist. Grissoms second-in-command, Catherine Willows, is a mother with a cops instinct. Born and raised in Vegas, Catherine was a stripper before being recruited into law enforcement, following Grissoms departure during the ninth season of the series, Catherine is promoted to Supervisor. After overseeing the training of new investigator Raymond Langston, Willows is replaced by D. B, Russell, and recruited to the FBI shortly thereafter. Russell is a man, a keen forensic botanist and a veteran of the Seattle Crime Lab. In the series season, Russell is reunited with his former partner Julie Finlay. During the 1990s, Anthony Zuiker caught producer Jerry Bruckheimers attention after writing his first movie script, Zuiker was convinced that there was a series in the concept, Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures. The studios head at the time liked the script and presented it to ABC, NBC and Fox executives. The head of development at CBS saw potential in the script, and the network had a pay-or-play contract with actor William Petersen. The networks executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to include it in their 2000 schedule immediately, airing on Fridays after The Fugitive. Initially it was thought that CSI would benefit from The Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that companys interest was later bought by the investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. CBS acquired AACs international distribution rights to the program, though the non-US DVD distribution rights did not change, the series is currently in syndication, and reruns are broadcast in the U. S. on the Spike and TV Land cable networks. The show has aired in reruns on the USA Network since January 14,2011, the CSI catalog has been exclusive to the whole NBC Universal portfolio since September 2014. Occasionally, the cast would still shoot on location in Las Vegas, other California locations include Verdugo Hills High School, UCLAs Royce Hall, Pasadena City Hall, and California State University, Los Angeles. While shooting took place primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, CSIs theme song was, since season one, Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend with vocals by lead singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In certain countries, to music licensing fees, a unique theme was used instead
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MGM Resorts International
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The company recently opened MGM National Harbor in Maryland and is developing MGM Springfield in Massachusetts. It has a majority interest in MGM China Holdings Limited, which owns the MGM Macau resort, MGM Resorts owns 50 percent of CityCenter in Las Vegas, which features ARIA Resort & Casino. It has a majority controlling interest in MGM Growth Properties, a real estate investment trust, the company began operations in 1987 as MGM Grand, Inc. and became MGM Mirage in 2000, after acquiring Mirage Resorts. City Centers development coincided with financial crisis, causing writedowns in its valuation. In June 2010, the changed to its present name, to reflect its latest strategy of expanding worldwide, including licensing its brand and expertise to develop non-gaming hotels. Following a one-billion-dollar stock offering by MGM Mirage amidst the global credit crunch, on June 15,2010, shareholders voted for MGM Mirage to change its name to MGM Resorts International, which emphasizes the brands global scope and increased non-gaming strategy. In 2013, MGM won state licenses to build a resort in National Harbor, Maryland. In May 2014, MGM broke ground on an arena on the Las Vegas Strip with sports. MGM Resorts is the majority owner of MGM Growth Properties LLC and it became a separate, publicly traded company in April 2016. Among the companys management ranks, more than 38 percent are minorities, FORTUNE magazine has named MGM Resorts one of the World’s Most Admired Companies. The companys background can be traced to 1969, when airline, when the Las Vegas Hilton, the casino he had built, subsequently became the most successful hotel in Las Vegas, Kerkorian was inspired to lead the studio into the gambling industry. It opened the original MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in 1973, the MGM Grand Reno followed in 1978. By 1979, the two hotel-casinos accounted for most of MGMs income, and the company announced a plan to split itself in two. The next year, the studio was spun off as a new company, while the original company. Kerkorian held a 47 percent stake in both companies, in 1985, Kerkorian began seeking a buyer for MGM Grand Hotels, to allow him to concentrate on running United Artists and on developing new properties under the MGM Grand name. A deal was reached for Bally Manufacturing to buy the company, the closed in April 1986. The company now known as MGM Resorts International was formed in 1986 as Grand Name Co. as a subsidiary of Kerkorians Tracinda Corporation and it was renamed the following year as MGM Grand, Inc. The companys first venture was MGM Grand Air, a luxury airline offering service between New York and Los Angeles, which launched in September 1987
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Hotel
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A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities, Hotel rooms are usually numbered to allow guests to identify their room. Some boutique, high-end hotels have custom decorated rooms, some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In the United Kingdom, a hotel is required by law to serve food, in Japan, capsule hotels provide a tiny room suitable only for sleeping and shared bathroom facilities. The precursor to the hotel was the inn of medieval Europe. For a period of about 200 years from the mid-17th century, inns began to cater to richer clients in the mid-18th century. One of the first hotels in a sense was opened in Exeter in 1768. Hotels proliferated throughout Western Europe and North America in the early 19th century, Hotel operations vary in size, function, and cost. Most hotels and major hospitality companies have set standards to classify hotel types. Full service hotels often contain upscale full-service facilities with a number of full service accommodations, an on-site full service restaurant. Boutique hotels are independent, non-branded hotels that often contain upscale facilities. Small to medium-sized hotel establishments offer a limited amount of on-site amenities, economy hotels are small to medium-sized hotel establishments that offer basic accommodations with little to no services. Extended stay hotels are small to medium-sized hotels that offer full service accommodations compared to a traditional hotel. Timeshare and destination clubs are a form of property ownership involving ownership of a unit of accommodation for seasonal usage. A motel is a small-sized low-rise lodging with direct access to rooms from the car park. Boutique hotels are typically hotels with an environment or intimate setting. A number of hotels have entered the public consciousness through popular culture, some hotels are built specifically as a destination in itself, for example at casinos and holiday resorts. The organizational chart and volume of job positions and hierarchy varies by size, function and class
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Casino
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A casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. The industry that deals in casinos is called the gaming industry, casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions. There is much debate whether or not the social and economic consequences of casino gambling outweigh the initial revenue that may be generated. Some casinos are also known for hosting live entertainment events, such as comedy, concerts. The term casino is a confusing linguistic false friend for translators, Casino is of Italian origin, the root casa originally meant a small country villa, summerhouse, or social club. In modern-day Italian, the term designates a bordello, while the gambling house is spelled casinò with an accent. Not all casinos were used for gaming, the Copenhagen Casino was a theatre, known for the mass public meetings often held in its hall during the 1848 Revolution, which made Denmark a constitutional monarchy. Until 1937, it was a well-known Danish theatre, the Hanko Casino in Hanko, Finland—one of that towns most conspicuous landmarks—was never used for gambling. Rather, it was a hall for the Russian nobility which frequented this spa resort in the late 19th century and is now used as a restaurant. In military and non-military usage in German and Spanish, a casino or kasino is an officers mess, in Italian—the source-language of the word—a casino is either a brothel, a mess, or a noisy environment, while a gaming house is called a casinò. The precise origin of gambling is unknown and it is generally believed that gambling in some form or another has been seen in almost every society in history. From the Ancient Greeks and Romans to Napoleons France and Elizabethan England and it was closed in 1774 as the city government felt it was impoverishing the local gentry. In American history, early gambling establishments were known as saloons, the creation and importance of saloons was greatly influenced by four major cities, New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago and San Francisco. It was in the saloons that travelers could find people to talk to, drink with, during the early 20th century in America, gambling became outlawed and banned by state legislation and social reformers of the time. However, in 1931, gambling was legalized throughout the state of Nevada, Americas first legalized casinos were set up in those places. In 1976 New Jersey allowed gambling in Atlantic City, now Americas second largest gambling city, most jurisdictions worldwide have a minimum gambling age. Customers gamble by playing games of chance, in cases with an element of skill, such as craps, roulette, baccarat, blackjack. Most games played have mathematically determined odds that ensure the house has at all times an overall advantage over the players and this can be expressed more precisely by the notion of expected value, which is uniformly negative
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Las Vegas Strip
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The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of South Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip is approximately 4.2 miles in length, located south of the Las Vegas city limits in the unincorporated towns of Paradise. However, the Strip is often referred to as being in Las Vegas, most of the Strip has been designated an All-American Road, and is considered a scenic route at night. Many of the largest hotel, casino, and resort properties in the world are located on the Las Vegas Strip, fourteen of the worlds 25 largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over 62,000 rooms. One of the most visible aspects of Las Vegas cityscape is its use of dramatic architecture, historically, the casinos that were not in Downtown Las Vegas along Fremont Street were limited to outside of the city limits on Las Vegas Boulevard. In 1959 the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign was constructed exactly 4.5 miles outside of the city limits, the sign is today about 0.4 miles south of the southernmost entrance to Mandalay Bay. In the strictest sense, the Strip refers only to the stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard that is roughly between Sahara Avenue and Russell Road, a distance of 4.2 miles. However, the term is used to refer not only to the road but also to the various casinos and resorts that line the road. The traditional definition considers the Strips northern terminus as the SLS, Mandalay Bay, located just north of Russell Road, is the southernmost resort considered to be on the Strip. Because of the number and size of the resorts, the Resort Corridor can be quite wide, Interstate 15 runs roughly parallel and 0.5 to 0.8 miles to the west of Las Vegas Boulevard for the entire length of the Strip. Paradise Road runs to the east in a fashion. The eastern side of the Strip is bounded by McCarran International Airport south of Tropicana Avenue, north of this point, the Resort Corridor can be considered to extend as far east as Paradise Road, although some consider Koval Lane as a less inclusive boundary. Interstate 15 is sometimes considered the edge of the Resort Corridor from Interstate 215 to Spring Mountain Road. North of this point, Industrial Road serves as the western edge, the famous Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign is located in the median just south of Russell Road, across from the now-demolished Klondike Hotel & Casino. Marketing for these casinos usually states that they are on southern Las Vegas Boulevard and not Strip properties. The first casino to be built on Highway 91 was the Pair-o-Dice Club in 1931 and that casino stood for almost 20 years before being destroyed by a fire in 1960. Its success spawned a second hotel on what would become the Strip, the funding for many projects was provided through the American National Insurance Company, which was based in the then notorious gambling empire of Galveston, Texas. Las Vegas Boulevard South was previously called Arrowhead Highway, or Los Angeles Highway, the Strip was named by Los Angeles police officer and businessman Guy McAfee, after his hometowns Sunset Strip
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The Venetian Las Vegas
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The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino is a five-diamond luxury hotel and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States, on the site of the old Sands Hotel. Designed by KlingStubbins, the tower contains 36 stories and rises 475 feet. The Venetian is owned and operated by Las Vegas Sands, the Venetian also serves as the seat of the corporate headquarters for its parent company. The Venetian resort complex is the worlds second-largest hotel, with 4,049 rooms,3,068 suites ranging in price from $169 to $10,000 per night and a 120, 000-square-foot casino. Since its opening, The Venetian Macao is the largest casino in the world, trumping The Venetian, in April 1996, Sheldon Adelson announced plans to create on the property the largest resort on the Strip. This project would be situated on the former Sands property, groundbreaking for the hotel began on April 14,1997. Built at a cost of $1.5 billion, it was one of the most expensive resorts of its kind when it opened, on June 27,2003, the 1, 013-room Venezia Tower opened. It was built on top of the parking lot. In 2010, it was announced that it will be affiliated with InterContinental Hotels Group, in October 2011, the Cantor Race & Sportsbook opened, which was the only Las Vegas sportsbook that was open for 24 hours a day. On June 11,2012, the Venetian opened Carnevale, a festival that is anchored by a nightly 3-D projection show on the clock tower. In September 2012, The Blue Man Group show closed and relocated to the Monte Carlo, the design architects for this project were The Stubbins Associates and WAT&G. Interior design was provided by Wilson Associates, And Dougall Associates for the casino. In October 2001, the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum opened within the resort, on June 27,2003, the Venezia tower opened, adding 1,013 suites and a new wedding chapel. In October 2005, Blue Man Group officially opened at the Blue Man Theatre, on June 24,2006, the show, Phantom, The Las Vegas Spectacular, opened at a new Paris Opera House styled theatre at The Venetian. The show concluded on September 2,2012, tim McGraw and Faith Hill headlined their Soul2Soul concert series which began in December 2012 and ended in April 2014. In 2010, TAO Nightclub was second only to the XS Club at The Wynn in revenue, with over $60 million, TAO Beach, located on top of TAO Nightclub, is the Venetians day club and pool party. It offers seven cabanas, each with television, DVD player, Xbox 360, a stocked mini-fridge, in 2004, the Venetian agreed to pay a $1 million penalty to settle a 12-count Gaming Control Board complaint. One of the 12 complaints alleged the hotel had held a drawing for a Mercedes-Benz that was rigged to be won by a high roller who had lost an amount in the casino. In 2013, the Venetian agreed to pay the U. S. Department of Justice $47.4 million to settle charges over alleged money laundering activities, the exterior of the Venetian is portrayed in the 2007 movie, Resident Evil, Extinction
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The Palazzo
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The Palazzo /pəˈlɑːtsoʊ/ is a luxury hotel and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is the tallest completed building in Nevada, designed by the Dallas based HKS, Inc. the hotel offers luxury in an Italian Renaissance ambiance. This all-suite hotel offers the largest standard accommodations on the Las Vegas Strip at 720 square feet per guest room, the hotel complex is named the largest hotel in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records. In its first year of eligibility, The Palazzo was awarded the AAA Five Diamond Award for 2009, after 2014, The Venetian and The Palazzo no longer receive AAA Diamond awards, as the management has refused further AAA inspections. By 1949, the property was occupied by the Ottilia Villa Motel, the eight-room Park Lane Motel, the Carousel Motel opened on the property in 1953, and the adjacent Park Lane Motel was incorporated into the Carousel around 1954. The Ottilia Villa was renamed as the Spanish Trail Motel in 1957, the Tam OShanter motel was built and opened in 1959, on 1.5 acres of the land. The motel was owned by Bernie Zeldin, and was named after Illinois Tam OShanter Golf Course, the motel had 100 rooms, and featured a distinctive neon sign resembling a tam o shanter cap. The sign was donated to the citys Neon Museum. The Spanish Trail Motel went out of business around 1960, in 1962, it reopened as the Imperial 400 Motel. Zeldin declined numerous offers to purchase the Tam OShanter, billionare Howard Hughes attempted to purchase the Tam OShanter at some point, initially offering $3 million. However, Hughes was late in delivering the money, and Zeldin subsequently raised the price to $6 million, when Hughes was late again in delivering the money, Zeldin called off negotiations. The Carousel Motel became the Sand Dunes Motel in 1973, and was demolished in 1998, in 1990, the Imperial 400 became a Days Inn. In 1996, it became the Vagabond Inn, before his death in June 1997, Zeldin finalized a $12.5 million deal to sell the Tam OShanter to Sheldon Adelsons Las Vegas Sands, which later opened the adjacent Venetian resort in 1999. Adelson was a friend of Zeldin, Venetian officials purchased 11.4 acres of land, including the Tam OShanter, in October 1998. Bernie Zeldins daughter, Leah Zeldin, operated the Tam OShanter until its closure, in December 2003, the Zeldin family was informed of the Venetians plans to demolish the motel for a future resort. Tam OShanter closed on January 12,2004, an asbestos-removal project for the motel took 19 days to complete. Tam OShanter was subsequently demolished on February 6,2004, to room for The Palazzo. The Vagabond Inn, which contained asbestos as well, was demolished in February 2004
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Convention center
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A convention center is a large building that is designed to hold a convention, where individuals and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typically offer sufficient floor area to several thousand attendees. Very large venues, suitable for trade shows, are sometimes known as exhibition centres. Convention centers typically have at least one auditorium and may also contain concert halls, lecture halls, meeting rooms, some large resort area hotels include a convention center
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Clark County, Nevada
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Clark County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nevada. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,951,269 and it is by far the most populous county in Nevada, accounting more than two-thirds of its residents. Las Vegas, Nevadas most populous city, has been the county seat since the county was established, the county was formed by the Nevada Legislature by splitting off a portion of Lincoln County on February 5,1909, and came into existence on July 1,1909. The Las Vegas Valley, a 600 sq mi basin, includes Las Vegas as well as the primary population center. Much of the county was part of Pah-Ute County, Arizona Territory before Nevada became a state. The county was named for William Andrews Clark, a Montana copper magnate, Clark was largely responsible for the construction of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad through the area, a factor heavily contributing to the regions early development. Clark County is today known as a major tourist destination, with 150,000 hotel rooms. The Las Vegas Strip, home to most of the known to many around the world, is located not within the City of Las Vegas city limits. It is, however, located in the Las Vegas Valley, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 8,061 square miles, of which 7,891 square miles is land and 169 square miles is water. The Colorado River forms the southeastern boundary, with Hoover Dam forming Lake Mead along much of its length. The lowest point in the state of Nevada is located on the Colorado River just south of Laughlin in Clark County, where it flows out of Nevada into California and Arizona. By definition, Greater Las Vegas is a valley, surrounded by four mountain ranges, with nearby Mount Charleston being the highest elevation at 11,918 ft. Other than the forests on Mount Charleston, the geography in Clark County is a desert, creosote bushes are the main native vegetation, and the mountains are mostly rocky with little vegetation. Many of these are located in, or partially located in,24. 50% of all households were made up of individuals and 6. 70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and the family size was 3.17. In the county, the population was out with 25. 60% under the age of 18,9. 20% from 18 to 24,32. 20% from 25 to 44,22. 30% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 103.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.80 males, the median income for a household in the county was $53,536, and the median income for a family was $59,485
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Tropicana Avenue
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Tropicana Avenue is a major east–west section line arterial in the Las Vegas area. The road is named after the Tropicana Resort & Casino which is located on the Las Vegas Boulevard where it intersects with Tropicana Avenue, part of it is signed as Nevada State Route 593. SR593 begins at Dean Martin Drive in the town of Paradise. From there, the highway travels east over Interstate 15 and crosses Las Vegas Boulevard in the Las Vegas Strip, the highway continues east past the Las Vegas Strip where the highway intersects at Paradise Road /Swenson Street. Paradise Road provides access to McCarran International Airport and SR593 serves as the end of the University of Nevada. SR593 continues following Tropicana Avenue east at the junction of Interstate 515, much of Tropicana Avenue is designated as a part of the National Highway System. SR593 from Dean Martin Drive to Boulder Highway comprises the state maintained portion of this NHS routing, Tropicana Avenue between Rainbow Boulevard and Dean Martin Drive is a locally maintained part of the NHS. Tropicana was originally named Bond Road before it was renamed after the adjacent to the street. The state maintained portion of Tropicana Avenue previously extended from its current terminus west to Rainbow Boulevard and this portion of SR593 had been relinquished to Clark County by 2006. The entire route is in Clark County
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Tropicana Las Vegas
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Tropicana Las Vegas is a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Penn National Gaming and is a franchise of Hiltons DoubleTree chain and it offers 1,467 rooms and a 50, 000-square-foot gaming floor. Tropicana Las Vegas also has 72,000 sq ft of convention and this location, Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection, has the most hotel rooms of any intersection in the world and is extremely busy. Pedestrians are not allowed to cross at street level, in 1955, Ben Jaffe, an executive of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, came to Las Vegas and bought a 40-acre parcel at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Bond Road. Jaffe aimed to build the finest hotel in Las Vegas, featuring a Cuban ambience, with four room themes for guests to choose from, French Provincial, Far East, Italian Renaissance, and Drexel. Construction ran over schedule and over budget, due in part to competition for labor with the under-construction Stardust down the road, Jaffe had to sell his interest in the Fontainebleau to complete the project, which finally opened in April 1957. Jaffe first leased the property to his associate, Phil Kastel, Jaffe next turned to J. Kell Housells, owner of the Las Vegas Club. By 1959, Housells bought out Jaffes interest, gaining a majority share in the Tropicana, in the 1960s, the Tropicana fared poorly from competition with larger hotels like Caesars Palace and the Las Vegas Hilton. Houssels sold out in 1968 to Trans-Texas Airways, deil Gustafson took control in 1971, but sold a 51% share to chemical heiress Mitzi Stauffer Briggs in 1975. Briggs began construction of the 22-floor Tiffany Tower in 1977, a skimming operation by Kansas City organized crime members was discovered, and the owners were forced to sell out. Ramada Inns, Inc. bought the Tropicana in December 1979, a 21-story Island Tower was constructed in 1986. Ramada spun off its properties, including the Tropicana, in 1989 as Aztar Corporation. Aztar was acquired by Columbia Sussex in January 2007, but Columbias gaming businesses went into bankruptcy in May 2008. The remainder of Columbia Sussexs gaming arm, reorganized under new ownership as Tropicana Entertainment Inc. promptly sued the Las Vegas property, in August 2015, Penn National Gaming purchased the Tropicana for $360 million. In December 2016, as part of Penns Interactive Division, Tropicana created an online experience for customers to play, a scene from Folies Bergere is featured in the 1964 Elvis Presley film Viva Las Vegas. In the 7th James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever,007 stays at the hotel Tropicana, the Las Vegas sequence of The Godfather was filmed in the Tropicana. The hotel is also referred briefly in The Godfather Part II, to avoid copyright issues, the name of the hotel was changed to Tropigala during filming, although the original name remained in the final draft of the script. The TV series Vega$ was also filmed at the Tropicana Hotel during the 1970s and it was featured on the TV Show Charlies Angels in the episode Angels In Vegas in 1978 with Dean Martin guest starring
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New York-New York Hotel and Casino
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New York-New York Hotel & Casino is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip at 3790 Las Vegas Boulevard South, in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International, New York-New York uses the New York City influence of its name in several ways. Within the resort, particular gambling areas, lounges, restaurants, the main casino area, for example, is named after Central Park, while the shops are modeled after Greenwich Village. At the casino, special decks of playing cards are used where the suit is replaced by apples. The resort is located on the northwest corner of the Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection, at street level, pedestrians are blocked from crossing by concrete barriers. Instead, it is linked by pedestrian bridges to its neighboring casinos to the south. Japanese firm Universal Distributing owned the property, and had discussed a joint venture with the Promus Companies to build a hotel-casino, but could not reach an agreement. In 1992, Kirk Kerkorians Tracinda Corporation bought the site for $31.5 million and offered MGM Grand Inc. of which Kerkorian owned 76%, the idea of a casino modeled after the New York skyline was conceived by Sig Rogich and Mark Advent. Rogich brought the idea to his friend, Gary Primm, head of Primadonna Resorts, Primm approached MGM president Bob Maxey in 1994 with the idea for MGMs prime Strip location, and a joint venture was formed between the two companies. Completed at a cost of million, New York-New York opened on January 3,1997. Since the initiation of New York-New York, analysts had speculated that MGM Grand or Primadonna would buy out the others interest in the project. Instead of making such a purchase, however, MGM agreed to buy Primadonna outright for $276 million in stock plus $336 million in assumed debt. The merger closed in March 1999, giving MGM full control of New York-New York, after the September 11,2001 attacks, people spontaneously sent various tributes to New York-New York, especially T-shirts from police, fire and rescue departments around the country. These were displayed along the fence in front of the Lady Liberty replica, eventually, they added a memorial from 2003 to 2013. The 9/11 Memorial was removed in 2013 for a casino expansion, the US Post Office Forever Statue of Liberty Stamp, which was intended to show the actual Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, actually shows the replica at New York-New York. This is due to an error by the designers, who incorrectly chose a stock photo of the replica instead of the original. Even after the error was recognized the Postal Service continued producing the stamp, in 2013 the sculptor of the statue in Las Vegas sued the Postal Service for copyright infringement. His lawyers pointed out that the replica is a piece of art
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McCarran International Airport
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McCarran International Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the Las Vegas Valley, a major metropolitan area in the U. S. state of Nevada. It is located in Paradise, about 5 miles south of downtown Las Vegas, the airport is owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation. It is named after Pat McCarran, a former Nevada senator who contributed to the development of both in Las Vegas and on a national scale. The airport was built in 1942 and opened to flights in 1948. It has undergone significant expansion since then and has employed various innovative technologies, the airport consists of four runways and two passenger terminals, Terminal 1 and Terminal 3. Terminal 1 is composed of four concourses, namely the A, B, C, a people mover system is in place between the pre-security area of Terminal 1 and the C and D Gates, as well as between the D Gates and Terminal 3. East of the terminals is the Marnell Air Cargo Center. McCarran received over 45,300,000 passengers in 2015 and it is the 26th busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic and the 8th busiest by aircraft movements. The airport has air service to destinations in North America, Europe. It is a base for Allegiant Air, as well as a crew and maintenance base for Southwest Airlines. Anderson Field was the first airport to serve Las Vegas, opening in November 1920, purchased by the Rockwell brothers in 1925, the airfield was renamed Rockwell Field, and Western Air Express introduced commercial air service in April 1926. When the brothers sold Rockwell Field and the new owner canceled WAEs lease, local businessman P. A. Simon had built an airfield northeast of the city, to which WAE relocated in November 1929. Despite rising traffic to Las Vegas, WAE reduced service to the city amid the Great Depression, once its financial situation improved, the airline bought the airfield and established a monopoly on flights to it. When the city attempted to purchase the field and build a modern terminal. With the advent of World War II, however, WAE was pressured to sell the airfield, nevadan Senator Pat McCarran helped obtain federal funding for the city to buy the field and construct a new terminal. He also helped establish a school by the United States Army Air Corps at the field. For the senators contributions, the airport was named McCarran Field in 1941, the gunnery school was closed in 1945 after the end of World War II. However, the Army later wanted to reopen its base, provided air traffic was moved to another airport
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Fred Harvey Company
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The Fred Harvey Company was the owner of the Harvey House chain of restaurants, hotels, and other hospitality industry businesses alongside railroads in the western United States. The company traces its origins to the 1875 opening of two railroad eating houses located at Wallace, Kansas and Hugo, Colorado on the Kansas Pacific Railway and these cafés were opened by Fred Harvey, then a freight agent for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. The café operation ended within a year, but Harvey had been convinced of the profits from providing a high quality food. In 1878, Harvey started the first of his eating house-hotel establishments along the AT&SF tracks in Florence, the rapid growth of the Harvey House chain soon followed. Fred Harvey is credited with creating the first restaurant chain in the U. S. Harvey, the popularity of the Harvey Girls grew even stronger in 1946 when Judy Garland starred in the film version of Samuel Hopkins Adams’s novel The Harvey Girls. After 1926, Harvey Cars were used in the provision of Indian Detours services offered from a number of Harvey hotel locations, the company continued to adjust to the trends. The Fred Harvey legacy was continued in the family until the death of a grandson in 1965, portions of the Fred Harvey Company have continued to operate since 1968 as part of a larger hospitality industry conglomerate. Fare typically consisted of nothing more than meat, cold beans. Such poor conditions discouraged many Americans from making the journey westward. The subsequent growth and development of the Fred Harvey Company was closely related to that of AT&SF, under the terms of an oral agreement, Harvey opened his first depot restaurant in Topeka, Kansas in January 1876. Railroad officials and passengers alike were impressed with Fred Harveys strict standards for quality food. As a result, AT&SF entered into subsequent contracts with Harvey wherein he was given unlimited funds to set up a series of what were dubbed eating houses along most of the route, at more prominent locations, these eating houses evolved into hotels, many of which survive today. By the late 1880s, there was a Fred Harvey dining facility located every 100 miles along the AT&SF. S, the company maintained two dairy facilities to ensure a consistent and adequate supply of fresh milk. The Harvey Company and AT&SF established a series of signals allowed the dining room staff to make the necessary preparations to feed an entire train in just thirty minutes. Harvey Houses served their meals on fine China and Irish linens, Fred Harvey, a fastidious innkeeper, set high standards for efficiency and cleanliness in his establishments, personally inspecting them as often as possible. It was said that nothing escaped his notice, and he was known to completely overturn a poorly set table. Male customers were required to wear a coat and tie in many of Harveys dining rooms, the Harvey Houses served many a meal to GIs traveling on troop trains during World War II. This mutually beneficial relationship, characterized as one of the most successful and influential business partnerships in the early American West, for the Southwest, Harvey hired architects Charles Whittlesey and designer Mary Colter for influential landmark hotels in Santa Fe and Gallup, New Mexico
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Kirk Kerkorian
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Kerkor Kirk Kerkorian was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the president and CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his holding company based in Beverly Hills. Kerkorian is known for having one of the important figures in the shaping of Las Vegas and, with architect Martin Stern. He built the worlds largest hotel in Las Vegas three times, the International Hotel, the MGM Grand Hotel and the MGM Grand and he purchased the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio in 1969. Of Armenian American origin, Kerkorian provided over $1 billion for charity in Armenia through his Lincy Foundation and it was established in 1989 and was particularly focused on helping to rebuild northern Armenia after the 1988 earthquake. In 2000 Time magazine named him the 10th largest donor in the US. Kerkorian was declared an honorary citizen of Armenia by President Robert Kocharyan in September 1998 and he was bestowed the title of National Hero of Armenia, the highest state award, by Kocharyan in May 2004. Kerkor Kerkorian was born on June 6,1917 in Fresno, California, Armenian was his first language and he didnt learn the English language until we hit the streets. His family moved to Los Angeles following the depression of 1920–21, Kirk Kerkorian also had a younger sister, Rose Kerkorian. In exchange for flying lessons from pioneer aviator Pancho Barnes, he agreed to milk, on gaining his commercial pilots certificate in six months, Kerkorian learned that the British Royal Air Force was ferrying Canadian-built de Havilland Mosquitos over the North Atlantic to Scotland. The Mosquitos fuel tank carried enough fuel for 1,400 miles, the fee was $1,000 per flight. While accounts claim the risk was that one in four failed to make it. In May 1944, Kerkorian and his Wing Commander John de Lacy Wooldridge rode the wave, Wooldridge got to Scotland in six hours,46 minutes, Kerkorian, in seven hours, nine minutes. In two and a half years with RAF Ferry Command, Kerkorian delivered 33 planes, logged thousands of hours, traveled to four continents, after the war, having saved most of his wages, Kerkorian spent $5,000 on a Cessna. He worked as an aviation pilot, and made his first visit to Las Vegas in 1944. He then bid on some war surplus bombers, using money on loan from the Seagram family. Gasoline, and especially airplane fuel, was in short supply at the time, so he sold the fuel from the tanks, paid off his loan. He operated the airline until 1968 when he sold it for $104 million to the Transamerica Corporation, in 1962, Kerkorian bought 80 acres in Las Vegas, across the Las Vegas Strip from the Flamingo, for $960,000. This purchase led to the building of Caesars Palace, which rented the land from Kerkorian, on November 21,1980, the original MGM Grand burned in a fire that was one of the worst disasters in Las Vegas history
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Hooters Casino Hotel
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Hooters Casino Hotel is a hotel and casino located off the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. It is owned by Trinity Hotel Investors and operated by the Navegante Group and it is located off the Strip next to the Tropicana and across the street from the MGM Grand Las Vegas. The hotel has 696 rooms with a 35, 000-square-foot casino, the hotel was built by the Oesterle Nevada Corp. for $8 million, and opened in 1973 as a Howard Johnson Hotel. It was purchased in 1975 for $7.6 million by Eureka Savings and Loan, after Oesterle Nevada declared bankruptcy. Later that year, it was sold for $10 million to Bernard Nemerov, a part owner of the Riviera casino. In 1976, the Paradise was targeted in a scam by 54 mobsters associated with the Philadelphia crime family. The scheme left the casino with insufficient cash to operate, and it was forced to close and it went through further ownership changes and renamings, to the 20th Century, the Treasury, the Pacifica, and the Polynesian. In 1989, it was purchased by Sukeaki Izumi, a Japanese industrialist and hotelier and he paid a reported $30 million for the purchase and renovation. In 2002, the hotel, casino, and restaurants were refurbished, the hotel had 711 rooms while the casino had 30,000 square feet of space. Hooters approached with a redevelopment proposal, ultimately, a group of nine partners in Hooters of America acquired a two-thirds interest in the property, which was put under control of a joint venture,155 East Tropicana, LLC. Plans were announced to redevelop the San Remo as a Hooters brand casino, Hooters of America, owner of the Hooters trademark, would receive 2% of revenue as royalties. On April 18,2005, Hooters announced a $190 million upgrade of the property, the renovations would reduce the number of rooms to 696 by converting rooms into larger suites. Former Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino opened Dan Marinos Fine Food, Hedwigs planned to redesign and rebrand the casino once again, as a lifestyle, entertainment-driven boutique hotel. Analysts called the agreement curious given Hooterss poor earnings performance, the deal fell through in June 2008 when Hedwigs failed to make a required payment. With revenue declining, the casino began defaulting on payments in April 2009. Canpartners Realty Holding Co. a subsidiary of Canyon Capital, bought up much of the debt at a heavy discount. The owners, seeking to block foreclosure, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 2011, the Navegante Group was approved to manage casino operations, while Canyon Capital said it was seeking a major hotel chain to take over and rebrand the property. In May 2015, Canyon Capital sold the casino to Trinity Hotel Investors, based in New York, Trinity was expected to rename the property and place it under the management of Holiday Inn
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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
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The film stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale. Notable for its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score and it was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but lost to Gone with the Wind. It did win in two categories, including Best Original Song for Over the Rainbow and Best Original Score by Herbert Stothart. However, the film was a box office disappointment on its release, earning only $3,017,000 on a $2,777,000 budget. It was MGMs most expensive production at that time, and did not completely recoup the studios investment and turn a profit until theatrical re-releases starting in 1949. The film was named the most-viewed motion picture on television syndication by the Library of Congress, designation on the registry calls for efforts to preserve it for being culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. It is also one of the few films on UNESCOs Memory of the World Register, the Wizard of Oz is often ranked on best-movie lists in critics and public polls. It is the source of many quotes referenced in popular culture. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming, noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but uncredited contributions were made by others. The songs were written by Edgar Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, the musical score and the incidental music were composed by Stothart. The film begins in Kansas, which is depicted in a sepia tone, Dorothy Gale lives with her dog Toto on the farm of her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Dorothys dog gets in trouble with a neighbor, Miss Almira Gulch. However, Dorothys family and the farmhands are all too busy to pay attention to her, Miss Gulch arrives with permission from the sheriff to have Toto euthanized. She takes him away, but he escapes and returns to Dorothy and they meet Professor Marvel, a phony but kindly fortune teller, who realizes Dorothy has run away and tricks her via his crystal ball into believing that Aunt Em is ill so that she must return home. She races home just as a tornado strikes. Unable to get into her familys storm cellar, she seeks safety in her bedroom, a wind-blown window sash hits her in the head, knocking her out. The house is picked up and sent spinning in the air by the twister, the farmhouse crashes in Munchkinland in the Land of Oz, where the film changes to Technicolor. Glinda the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins welcome her as their heroine, as the house has landed on and killed the Wicked Witch of the East, leaving only her stocking feet exposed
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Green
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Green is the color between blue and yellow on the spectrum of visible light. It is evoked by light with a predominant wavelength of roughly 495–570 nm, the modern English word green comes from the Middle English and Anglo-Saxon word grene, from the same Germanic root as the words grass and grow. It is the color of living grass and leaves and as a result is the color most associated with springtime, growth, by far the largest contributor to green in nature is chlorophyll, the chemical by which plants photosynthesize and convert sunlight into chemical energy. Many creatures have adapted to their environments by taking on a green hue themselves as camouflage. Several minerals have a color, including the emerald, which is colored green by its chromium content. In surveys made in Europe and the United States, green is the color most commonly associated with nature, life, health, youth, spring, hope and envy. In Europe and the U. S. green is associated with death, sickness, or the devil. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, when the color of clothing showed the social status, green was worn by merchants, bankers. The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci wears green, showing she is not from a noble family, Green is also the traditional color of safety and permission, a green light means go ahead, a green card permits permanent residence in the United States. It is the most important color in Islam and it was the color of the banner of Muhammad, and is found in the flags of nearly all Islamic countries, and represents the lush vegetation of Paradise. It is also associated with the culture of Gaelic Ireland. Because of its association with nature, it is the color of the environmental movement, political groups advocating environmental protection and social justice describe themselves as part of the Green movement, some naming themselves Green parties. This has led to campaigns in advertising, as companies have sold green, or environmentally friendly. The word green comes from the Middle English and Old English word grene, which, like the German word grün, has the same root as the words grass and grow. It is from a Common Germanic *gronja-, which is reflected in Old Norse grænn, Old High German gruoni, ultimately from a PIE root *ghre- to grow. The first recorded use of the word as a term in Old English dates to ca. Latin with viridis also has a genuine and widely used term for green, related to virere to grow and ver spring, it gave rise to words in several Romance languages, French vert, Italian verde. Likewise the Slavic languages with zelenъ, Ancient Greek also had a term for yellowish, pale green – χλωρός, chloros, cognate with χλοερός verdant and χλόη the green of new growth
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Emerald City
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The Emerald City is the capital city of the fictional Land of Oz in L. Frank Baums Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Located in the center of the Land of Oz, the Emerald City is the end of the yellow brick road. In the center of the Emerald City is the Royal Palace of Oz, in the first book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the walls are green, but the city itself is not. This is yet another humbug created by the Wizard, in this book, the Wizard also describes the city as having been built for him within a few years after he arrived. This is continued throughout the series, the only allusions to the earlier conception appeared in The Road to Oz, where the Little Guardian of the Gates wears green spectacles, the only character to do so. The book quickly concerns itself with finding the rightful heir to the crown of the city, ozma remained the kings heir, though both she and the original king were transformed to the ruler of all Oz. However, the story reverted to the Wizards having built the city in Dorothy, the Oz books describe the Emerald City as being built of green glass, emeralds, and other jewels. This contrasts with the description of Oz, in which money does not feature. Interpreters have argued that the Wizard may have introduced money into the city, the Emerald City of Oz, the sixth book in the Oz series, describes the city as having exactly 9654 buildings and 57,318 citizens. The quick building of the White City, in less than a year and it is also likely that Baums favored haunt, the Hotel Del Coronado, influenced its description in later books. Scholars who interpret The Wizard of Oz as a political allegory see the Emerald City as a metaphor for Washington, D. C. and unsecured greenback paper money. In this reading of the book, the citys illusory splendor and value are compared with the value of paper money and it is highly likely that the Hotel del Coronado influenced its description in later books, as well as in the artwork by John R. Neill. David Williamson wrote a play called Emerald City, subsequently, Emerald City has occasionally been used as an unofficial nickname for the city of Sydney. The firm was named after Baums book and the David Williamson play, the American city of Seattle, Washington has used The Emerald City as its official nickname since 1982. There is also a known as Emerald City that is associated with the city of Seattle. Eugene, Oregon is also referred to as the Emerald City, muntinlupa City is nicknamed as the Emerald City of the Philippines by the Department of Tourism. The Emerald City appears in the film The Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City appeared in the film Return to Oz having been destroyed by the Nome King with all of its inhabitants turned to stone. When Dorothy enters she finds the city inhabited by Wheelers and ruled over by Mombi, upon retrieving the ruby slippers from the Nome King, Dorothy uses their power to restore the Emerald City to its former glory
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Yellow brick road
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The Yellow Brick Road is a fictional element in the 1900 childrens novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by American author L. Frank Baum. The road also appears in the several sequel Oz books such as The Marvelous Land of Oz, the roads most notable portrayal is in the classic 1939 MGM musical movie The Wizard of Oz, loosely based on Baums first Oz book. In the novels first edition the road is referred to as the Road of Yellow Bricks. Within a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City, her Silver Shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, the road is first introduced in the third chapter of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The road begins in the heart of the eastern quadrant called Munchkin Country in the Land of Oz. It functions as a guideline that leads all who follow it, in the book, the novels main protagonist, Dorothy, is forced to search for the road before she can begin her quest to seek the Wizard. This is because the cyclone from Kansas did not release her farmhouse closely near it as it did in the film adaptations. After the council with the native Munchkins and their friend the Good Witch of the North, Dorothy begins looking for it and sees many pathways. Thankfully it doesnt take her too long to spot the one paved with yellow bricks. In the end of the book we learn the history, unlike in Walt Disneys prequel film Oz the Great and Powerful. In the classic 1939 film, a red brick road can be seen starting at the point as the yellow brick road and is entwined with it. This version of the road does not exist in Baums books, also, at the cornfield where Dorothy meets and befriends the Scarecrow, there is a fork in the yellow brick road leading in different directions. Luckily they choose the one of the three branches that leads to Emerald City. In Disneys 1985 live action semi-sequel to the 1939 movie Return to Oz, upon her second arrival she finds the yellow brick road in ruins by the hands of the evil Nome King who also conquered the Emerald City. In the end, it is presumed that after she defeats him and saves the city and its citizens, the actual road is believed to be one in Peekskill, New York, where L. Frank Baum attended Peekskill Military Academy. According to a legend, the Yellow Brick Road was derived from a road paved with yellow bricks near Holland, Michigan. Ithaca, New York, also makes a claim for being Frank Baums inspiration and he opened a road tour of his musical, The Maid of Arran, in Ithaca, and he met his future wife Maud Gage Baum while she was attending Cornell University. At the time, yellow bricks paved local roads, supposedly, after a rainstorm the sun came out and he saw a bright yellow brick road from the window of his room
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Leo the Lion (MGM)
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Since 1916, there have been seven different lions used for the MGM logo. Although MGM has referred to all of the used in their trademark as Leo the Lion, only the current lion. Slats, trained by Volney Phifer, was the first lion used for the newly formed studio, born at the Dublin Zoo on March 20,1919 and originally named Cairbre, Slats was used on all black-and-white MGM films between 1924 and 1928. The original logo was designed by Howard Dietz and used by the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation studio from 1916 to 1924, Goldwyn Pictures was ultimately absorbed into the partnership that formed MGM, and the first MGM film that used the logo was He Who Gets Slapped. Ironically, unlike his successors, Slats did nothing but look around in the logo, Slats died in 1936, however, his hide is currently on display at the McPherson Museum in McPherson, Kansas. Jackie, trained by Mel Koontz, was the lion used for the MGM logo. He was the first MGM lion to roar, which was first heard via a record for MGMs first production with sound. Jackie appeared on all black-and-white MGM films from 1928 to 1956, Jackie died on February 26,1952. He would later make a comeback at the beginning of the film Hearts of the West, in the early 1930s, MGM reissued some of its earlier, pre-1928 silent films with soundtracks containing recorded music and sound effects. Among the films reissued in this manner were Greed, Ben-Hur and Flesh, for these sound reissues, Slats was plastered over by Jackie, causing some film authorities to assume that the lion had been in use before 1928. In addition to appearing in the MGM logo, Jackie appeared in over a hundred films, Jackie also appeared with an apprehensive Greta Garbo in a well-known 1926 publicity still. The lion is known for surviving several accidents, giving him the nickname Leo the Lucky. For the films Westward the Women and The Next Voice You Hear, a still frame of the logo -- sans growling—was used at the beginning. MGM began experiments with two-strip color short subjects in 1928 and animated cartoons in 1930, for these productions, two different lions were used. The first lion, Telly, appeared on all color MGM movies between 1928 and 1932, the second lion, Coffee, appeared on color films between 1932 and 1934, until production was switched to full three-strip Technicolor filming. The Cat and the Fiddle had brief color sequences, but was otherwise in black-and-white, an extended version of the logo featuring Coffee appears at the beginning of the short Wild People, featuring the lion roaring three times, rather than just twice. Also, a version of the logo featuring Telly appeared at the beginning of the film The Viking, featuring the lion roaring/growling three times, rather than twice. MGM began producing full three-strip Technicolor films in 1934, Tanner, also trained by Mel Koontz, was used on all Technicolor MGM films and cartoons, replacing Telly and Coffee
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Conference and resort hotels
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Conference and resort hotels are hotels which often contain full-sized luxury facilities with full-service accommodations and amenities. These hotels may attract business conferences and vacationing tourists and offer more than a convenient place to stay. These hotels may be referred to as major conference center hotels, flagship hotels, destination hotels, the market for conference and resort hotels is a subject for market analysis. These hotels as destinations may be characterized by distinctive architecture, upscale lodgings, ballrooms, large facilities, restaurants. They may be located in a variety of settings from major cities to remote locations, since the 1800s, the traditional concept full service conference and resort hotels has been based upon a venue which is typically remote and has a natural feature as its attraction. For example, the Kviknes Hotel in Norway is a difficult to reach remote location which provides access to the scenic fjord at Balestrand. A megaresort is a type of destination which is of a large size. The hotels along the Las Vegas Strip are most typically thought of as megaresorts owing to their immense size, Kirk Kerkorian is credited for building the first mega resort in 1969 earning him the nickname father of the mega resort. Two projects in Las Vegas in 1969 and 1973 by architect Martin Stern, Jr. and entrepreneur Kirk Kerkorian, the International Hotel, the Mirage given its size and emphasis on non-gaming entertainment options like shopping and fine dining to draw in customers. Megaresorts use the same fantastic or mythical theme throughout their properties, many megaresorts have a large theme park as its centerpiece. Resorts such as the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts feature multiple hotels, multiple theme parks, other megaresorts exist with no specific centerpiece, having many features that are considered prominent, such as Atlantis Paradise Island and its upcoming sister park in Dubai
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Condominium
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A condominium, usually shortened to condo, is a type of real estate divided into several units that are each separately owned, surrounded by common areas jointly owned. Unlike apartments, which are leased by their tenants, condominium units are owned outright, the common areas, amenities and utilities are managed collectively by the owners through their association, such as a homeowner association. Scholars have traced the earliest known use of the form of tenure to a document from first century Babylon. The word condominium originated in Latin, the term condominium is used throughout the United States and in most Canadian provinces, where such a property is also colloquially known as a condo. Italy uses condominio, which is simply the modern Italian form of condominium, both condo and condominium are used colloquially in the Canadian Province of Quebec, where the official term is copropriété divise or co-property devise. In France, however, the term is simply copropriété, co-property, spanish-speaking nations and regions often use the term propiedad horizontal, literally meaning horizontal property but abstractly meaning that all owners of the property have equal interest. The word condominio is also used, Condominium is a Latin word formed by adding the prefix con- to the word dominium. Its meaning is therefore shared property, condominia originally referred to territories over which two or more sovereign powers shared joint dominion. This technique was used to settle border disputes when multiple claimants could not agree on how to partition the disputed territory. For example, from 1818 to 1846, Oregon was a condominium over which both the United States and Great Britain shared joint sovereignty, mainly in the context of the United States The difference between an apartment complex and condominium is purely legal. There is no way to differentiate a condominium from an apartment simply by looking at or visiting the building, what defines a condominium is the form of ownership. A building developed as a condominium could actually be built at another location as an apartment building, as a practical matter, builders tend to build condominiums to higher quality standards than apartment complexes because of the differences between the rental and sale markets. Technically, a condominium is a collection of home units. Individual home ownership within a condominium is construed as ownership of only the air space confining the boundaries of the home, the boundaries of that space are specified by a legal document known as a Declaration, filed on record with the local governing authority. Typically, these boundaries will include the surrounding a condo. Anything outside this boundary is held in an ownership interest by a corporation established at the time of the condominiums creation. The corporation holds this property in trust on behalf of the homeowners as a group—it may not have ownership itself, Condominiums have conditions, covenants, and restrictions, and often additional rules that govern how the individual unit owners are to share the space. It is also possible for a condominium to consist of single-family dwellings and these structures are preferred by some planned neighborhoods and gated communities
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The Signature at MGM Grand
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The Signature at MGM Grand is a condo-hotel at the MGM Grand Las Vegas resort, in Paradise. It features three identical 38-story towers, each consisting of 576 fully furnished units, most of the condo units were to be privately owned. The owner, minus fees for maintenance, marketing, and upkeep. 545 condo owners brought a lawsuit alleging the Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition by the developers of The Signature Towers at MGM is just a ploy to delay discovery in the case. The first phase of this involved the sales of condo units to individuals. During this phase, the project was referred to as The Residences, The Residences at MGM Grand and/or The Residences, the first tower sold out within 90 days, proving that the concept was well received. The second tower was already 50% sold by the construction began in late 2004. In October 2004, The Residences celebrated its ground-breaking, making it the first high-rise condo-hotel project overlooking the strip to begin construction, other ventures of this type have begun since in Las Vegas, with many of them failing to obtain necessary financing and/or support. On May 12,2006, the first tower opened for occupancy, the successful opening of The Signature at MGM Grand appears to be aided by its connection to the resources and amenities of The MGM Grand Hotel & Casino. Each tower has a pool with a hot tub. Tower 1 has a cocktail lounge, Towers 1 and 3 have a workout room for the guests of all three towers. Starbucks is available at Tower 1, Signature guests have full access to all MGM Grand amenities as well. The Signature is connected to the main MGM Grand Casino via several moving walkways that traverse through two of the 3 towers, Tower 3 is accessible via a hallway between tower 2 and 3. Time to the casino to the furthest tower is about 8 minutes for the average walker. There is no parking on the Signature property, all parking is by valet Each tower has valet parking on the ground level. The Signature at MGM Grand official website
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Las Vegas Monorail
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The Las Vegas Monorail is a 3. 9-mile monorail mass transit system located adjacent to the Las Vegas Strip, in Clark County, Nevada, United States. It connects several large casinos in the communities of Paradise and Winchester. It is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Monorail Company, in 2013, total annual ridership was roughly 4.2 million, down from a pre-Great Recession peak of 7.9 million in 2007. The monorail is a registered not-for-profit corporation, allowed under Nevada law since the monorail provides a public service, the State of Nevada assisted in bond financing, but no public money was used in construction. During testing and commissioning, the monorail suffered several malfunctions that delayed the start of service for almost a year. The most serious of these related to parts falling from the monorail to the ground under the tracks. After many delays, the finished Las Vegas Monorail opened to the public on July 15,2004 with the completion, on September 8,2004, more problems with falling parts led to the closing of the monorail for nearly four months. It reopened on December 24,2004, a number of repairs were made to the monorail cars during this shutdown. Each time the system required major engineering changes, it underwent a lengthy commissioning process to confirm the effectiveness. Officials reported that day the monorail was down cost the system approximately $85,000 in lost fares. Transit Systems Management officials cited the successful handling of crowds during the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show as proof that the system can handle a major convention, on February 2,2005, the monorail system was shut down due to problems with the electrical system. Reportedly, a short circuit required replacement of a 30-foot section of the power rail, the system reopened about 12 hours later. In July 2005, a record was set for ridership for the monorail, bankWest debuted a red MoneyRail branded train, and joined Nextel Communications, Hansens Beverage, and Paramount Studios as corporate sponsors. On July 8,2005, Transit Systems Management announced that it would shut down, turning over its responsibilities to the Las Vegas Monorail Company, the system operator. Curtis Myles, a deputy general manager of the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada. He assumed his duties on July 18,2005, expansion plans took a step forward on November 1,2005, when the County Commission approved a study into the feasibility of an airport extension. On June 6,2006, the Las Vegas Monorail Corporation announced that monorail revenues rose nearly 16% from the previous year, likewise, ridership had also increased, from 563,823 riders in January 2006 to 704,527 in April 2006. On January 13,2010, the Las Vegas Monorail filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the filing will not affect system operations and will have no impact on the monorail’s hours of operation or service to its customers
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Bombardier Transportation
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Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the worlds largest companies in the rail vehicle, the division is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and has regional offices and major development facilities in Canada and the United States. Bombardier Transportation has many production and development facilities worldwide. Bombardier Transportation produces a range of products including passenger rail vehicles, locomotives, bogies, propulsion and controls. Laurent Troger is the president and chief operating officer of Bombardier Transportation, in January 2011, the company had 34,900 employees,25,400 of them in Europe, and 60 manufacturing locations around the world. Bombardier Transportations first order for mass transit rolling stock was in 1974 for the Société de transport de Montréal to build trains for the Montreal Metro. The core of the Transportation group was formed with the purchase of Montreal Locomotive Works in 1975, with that purchase, Bombardier acquired MLWs LRC tilting train design which it produced in the 1980s. The group also purchased Urban Transportation Development Corporation from the Government of Ontario, MLW was sold to General Electric in 1988. GE ended railcar operations in Canada in 1993, Bombardier Transportation continues to operate the railcar operations in Thunder Bay. In 1987, Bombardier bought the assets of US railcar manufacturers Budd, in 1990, Procor Engineering Ltd. of Horbury near Wakefield, UK, a manufacturer of bodyshells, was acquired, and renamed Bombardier Prorail. In 1991, the grouping Bombardier Eurorail was formed consisting of the companys European subsidiaries, BN, ANF-Industrie, Prorail, in 1992, the company acquired Mexicos largest railway rolling-stock manufacturer, Concarril, from the Mexican government. In 1995, Waggonfabrik Talbot KG in Aachen, Germany, and in 1998, Deutsche Waggonbau AG, DWA encompassed the major portion of the railway equipment industry of the former East Germany, and had its principal sites in Bautzen and Görlitz. In 2001, Bombardier Transportation acquired Adtranz from DaimlerChrysler, and became by many measurements the Western worlds largest rail-equipment manufacturer, the addition of ADtranz made Bombardier a manufacturer of locomotives along with its existing product lines of passenger carriages, multiple-unit trains, and trams. With the acquisition of ADtranz, Bombardier also gained competence in the propulsion components business. Other sites had their work reduced in scope, or were closed. In Sep 2014 the downsizing and eventual closure of the Maryborough factory was announced, in January 2015, the government of Hungary nationalised the loss-making and under-utilised Bombardier carriage works at Dunakeszi, acquiring a 64. 9% stake for $7.8 million. An IPO was planned for late 2015, the investment initially representing a 30% stake - a valuation of $5 billion. The sale was required in part to continue the financing of the parent companys C-Series jet, in Aug 2016 Bombardier opened a 6,000 square metres production facility in Isando, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Mark VI monorail
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The Mark VI monorail is a monorail train used in the Walt Disney World Monorail System and the Las Vegas Monorail. The Mark VI started replacing the Mark IV monorails at Walt Disney World in 1989, the Las Vegas M-VI versions of the trains differ from the Walt Disney World trains in both physical appearance and in that the trains are automated. The trains were built by Bombardier of Canada for a reported cost of over $3.5 million per train, each cab is 40 ft 5 in long and each intermediate car is 28 ft 2 in long. The 6-car trains in the Walt Disney World Monorail System total 203 ft 6 in in length, each car can hold 20 seated passengers and 40 standing passengers. If available, the cab can hold 4 seated passengers and one pilot, passenger cab riding is no longer permitted after the July 5,2009 incident. Each train has eight electric motors operating on 600 volts DC to produce 100 hp each, the motors also serve as brakes via dynamic braking and send power to resistor banks located between each car. Walt Disney Worlds trains have been fitted with a governor which limits their speed to 55 MPH, however. The Mark VI Suspension consists of a tire and guide tires. The load tire is a Michelin XTE2 445/65R22.5 size tire, the guide tires are just that, they guide the monorail on the beam. They are filled with nitrogen to reduce the chance of fire in the event of tire failure. Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Disney Transportation, The Monorail
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The Great White Hype
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The Great White Hype is a 1996 American sports-comedy film directed by Reginald Hudlin. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Berg, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, Jon Lovitz, Cheech Marin, John Rhys-Davies, Salli Richardson, the movie is a satire of racial preferences in boxing. The name is a play on the title of the 1970 film The Great White Hope and it was inspired by Larry Holmess 1982 fight with Gerry Cooney and Mike Tysons 1995 return fight vs. Peter McNeeley. The film was distributed by 20th Century Fox, which distributed the earlier film. The Sultan relays some bad news to everyone, The fight was a financial flop and he deduces the reason that boxing events have become far less profitable is because audience members are sick of watching only black boxers fight each other. After failing to find a white boxer currently in the sport suitable by any means, he discovers that Roper actually lost to a boxer, Terry Conklin. The Sultan and his crew find Conklin in Cleveland, where he fronts a heavy metal band, advocates peace and Buddhism. Conklin arrives in Las Vegas, where he is cleaned up, thanks to shady dealing, Conklin suddenly is named the No.8 challenger in the world. Boxing pundits and officials easily see the scam unfolding and label the fight a disgrace, No matter, though, as the prospect of a white vs. black fight appears to be as lucrative as first hoped. Conklin gets in shape quickly, regaining some of his old form, as the Sultans ego grows, Kane sees an opportunity to usurp him in power. Though Conklin was never believed to stand a chance in the fight, Kane recognizes that Conklin may actually win, the Sultan and his crew heavily promote the fight and publicize the white vs. black angle, even fabricating an Irish ancestor for Conklin. The racial angle works, and money starts to pour in, on the fight day, millions tune into Pay-Per-View for the fight, and Kane is confident about a new era beginning with a Conklin upset. The fight begins, and Conklin gets in one good punch before the out-of-shape Roper easily dispatches his foe - which was the plan all along. Conklin quits boxing again, Kanes plan falls short, the Sultan cleans up financially, Ropers critics are silenced, as the two fistfight, the Sultan screams to not give away something they can sell. Shabazz then knocks out Roper during their ongoing melee inside the ring, Sultan then proceeds to step over Ropers unconscious body and promotes the next fight, Shabazz vs Roper. Samuel L. Jackson as Rev. John Saint Michael Jace as Marvin Shaabazz Art Evans as Minister Nedra Volz as Old Lady Method Man as Himself The movie gained mixed reviews and it currently holds a 45% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 20 reviews. The movie was not a box office success, a soundtrack containing hip hop music was released on April 30,1996 by Epic Records. It peaked at 93 on the Billboard 200 and 27 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, camp Los single Coolie High became a minor hit, peaking at 25 on Rap charts
