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Planned community
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A planned community, or planned city, is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in an ad hoc fashion. Land use conflicts are less frequent in these communities, the term new town refers to planned communities of the new towns movement in particular, mainly in the United Kingdom. It was also common in the European colonization of the Americas to build according to a plan either on ground or on the ruins of earlier Native American cities. C. in the United States. In Egypt, a new capital city east of Cairo has been proposed, the federal administrative centre of Malaysia, Putrajaya, is also a planned city. Abu Dhabi and some of the recently built cities in the Persian Gulf region are also planned cities, prior to the boom, these were just villages or towns. The city of Gaborone was planned and constructed in the 1960s, in 2012, President Teodoro Obiang decided to move the capital to a new jungle site at Oyala. Konza Technology City is a city that is hoped to become a hub of African science. The capital, Abuja, is a city and was built mainly in the 1980s. Upon completion, the new city which is still under development is anticipating 250,000 residents, centenary City, in the Federal Capital Territory, is another planned smart city under development. The city is designed to become a major tourist attraction to the country, a list of Nigerian cities and neighbourhoods that went through a form of planning are as follows, Abuja, one of the most populous planned cities, and the fastest growing city in the world. Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State Lekki, a new city in Lagos State Lekki Free Zone, a trade zone in the Lekki Orange Island. Victoria Island in Lagos, Lagos State A number of cities were set up during the apartheid-era for a variety of ethnic groups, Planned settlements set up for white inhabitants included Welkom, Sasolburg and Secunda. Additionally the majority of settlements in South Africa were planned in their early stages, some settlements were also set up for non whites such as the former homeland capital of Bhisho. Naypyidaw is the capital of Myanmar, also known as Burma and it is administered as the Naypyidaw Union Territory, as per the 2008 Constitution. On 6 November 2005, the capital of Burma was officially moved to a greenfield 3.2 km west of Pyinmana, and approximately 300 km north of Yangon. The capitals official name was announced on 27 March 2006, Burmese Armed Forces Day, much of the city was still under construction as late as 2012. As of 2009, the population was 925,000, which makes it Burmas third largest city, after Yangon, famous examples are Changan in Tang dynasty and Beijing
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Las Vegas
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The city anchors the Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area and is the largest city within the greater Mojave Desert. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city known primarily for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment and it is the leading financial, commercial, and cultural center for Nevada. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World and it is a top three destination in the United States for business conventions and a global leader in the hospitality industry, claiming more AAA Five Diamond hotels than any city in the world. Today, Las Vegas annually ranks as one of the worlds most visited tourist destinations. The citys tolerance for numerous forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City, and has made Las Vegas a popular setting for literature, films, television programs, Las Vegas was settled in 1905 and officially incorporated in 1911. At the close of the 20th century, it was the most populated American city founded within that century, population growth has accelerated since the 1960s, and between 1990 and 2000 the population nearly doubled, increasing by 85. 2%. Rapid growth has continued into the 21st century, and according to a 2013 estimate, perhaps the earliest visitors to the Las Vegas area were nomadic Paleo-Indians, who traveled there 10,000 years ago, leaving behind petroglyphs. Anasazi and Paiute tribes followed at least 2,000 years ago, a young Mexican scout named Rafael Rivera is credited as the first non-Native American to encounter the valley, in 1829. Trader Antonio Armijo led a 60-man party along the Spanish Trail to Los Angeles, the area was named Las Vegas, which is Spanish for the meadows, as it featured abundant wild grasses, as well as desert spring waters for westward travelers. The year 1844 marked the arrival of John C, frémont, whose writings helped lure pioneers to the area. Downtown Las Vegas Fremont Street is named after him, eleven years later members of the LDS Church chose Las Vegas as the site to build a fort halfway between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, where they would travel to gather supplies. The fort was abandoned several years afterward, the remainder of this Old Mormon Fort can still be seen at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Washington Avenue. Las Vegas was founded as a city in 1905, when 110 acres of adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks were auctioned in what would become the downtown area. In 1911, Las Vegas was incorporated as a city,1931 was a pivotal year for Las Vegas. At that time, Nevada legalized casino gambling and reduced residency requirements for divorce to six weeks and this year also witnessed the beginning of construction on nearby Hoover Dam. The influx of workers and their families helped Las Vegas avoid economic calamity during the Great Depression. The construction work was completed in 1935, in 1941, the Las Vegas Army Air Corps Gunnery School was established. Currently known as Nellis Air Force Base, it is home to the team called the Thunderbirds
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Nevada
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Nevada is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 34th most populous, nearly three-quarters of Nevadas people live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area where three of the states four largest incorporated cities are located. Nevada is officially known as the Silver State because of the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is also known as the Battle Born State, because it achieved statehood during the Civil War, as the Sage-brush State, for the plant of the same name. Nevada borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, Nevada is largely desert and semi-arid, much of it located within the Great Basin. Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe, about 86% of the states land is managed by various jurisdictions of the U. S. federal government, both civilian and military. Before European contact, Native Americans of the Paiute, Shoshone, the first Europeans to explore the region were Spanish. They called the region Nevada because of the snow covered the mountains in winter. The area formed part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the United States annexed the area in 1848 after its victory in the Mexican–American War, and it was incorporated as part of Utah Territory in 1850. The discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode in 1859 led to a boom that became an impetus to the creation of Nevada Territory out of western Utah Territory in 1861. Nevada became the 36th state on October 31,1864, as the second of two added to the Union during the Civil War. Nevada has a reputation for its libertarian laws, in 1940, with a population of just over 110,000 people, Nevada was by far the least-populated state, with less than half the population of the next least-populated state. However, legalized gambling and lenient marriage and divorce laws transformed Nevada into a major tourist destination in the 20th century, Nevada is the only U. S. state where prostitution is legal, though it is illegal in Clark County, Washoe County and Carson City. The tourism industry remains Nevadas largest employer, with mining continuing as a sector of the economy. The name Nevada comes from the Spanish nevada, meaning snow-covered, most Nevadans pronounce the second syllable of their state name using the vowel of trap. Many from outside the Western United States pronounce it with the vowel of father, although the latter pronunciation is closer to the Spanish pronunciation, it is not the pronunciation preferred by most Nevadans. State Assemblyman Harry Mortenson proposed a bill to recognize the alternate pronunciation of Nevada, though the bill was not supported by most legislators, the Nevadan pronunciation is the de facto official one, since it is the one used by the state legislature. Nevada is almost entirely within the Basin and Range Province, and is broken up by many mountain ranges
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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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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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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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Summerlin South, Nevada
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See Summerlin, Nevada for more information. It is so named because it is a extension of the master-planned community of Summerlin. Nearly all of Summerlin South is in ZIP code 89135, the population was 24,085 at the 2010 Census. The Summerlin South Community Association is the governmental entity of the area – it is a homeowners association for the entire community. It is the unincorporated area of the Las Vegas Valley that does not have a town advisory board. Summerlin South is considered to be one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in the Las Vegas Valley, the area includes The Ridges, a highly affluent guard-gated community of luxury mansions in southwest Summerlin. In The Ridges, the home price is $2,600,000 with many continuing into the eight-figure range. It is bounded on the north by Charleston Boulevard, Hualapai Way to the east, current development expands just below Russell Rd on the south but future developments will expand to Maule Ave. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 9.64 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 24,085 people and 10,173 households residing in the CDP, the population density was 2,497.4 people per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 76. 2% White,4. 4% African American,0. 4% Native American,12. 8% Asian,0. 4% Pacific Islander,1. 8% from other races, and 3. 9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8. 6% of the population, there were 10,173 households out of which 27. 7% had children under the age of 18 living with them. 54. 6% were married couples living together, and 33. 3% were non-families,25. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 2. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the family size was 2.86. In the CDP, the age distribution was 21. 3% under the age of 18 and 78. 7% over the age of 18, age 65 and over made up 18% of the population. The median age was 42.9 years, between 2011-2013, median household income was $91,535 and mean household income was $139,061
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Las Vegas Valley
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The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area located in the southern part of the U. S. state of Nevada. The largest urban agglomeration in the state, it is the heart of the Las Vegas–Paradise-Henderson, the Valley is largely defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a 600 sq mi basin area surrounded by mountains to the north, south, east and west of the metropolitan area. The Valley is home to the three largest incorporated cities in Nevada, Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas, six unincorporated towns governed by the Clark County government are part of the Las Vegas Township and constitute the largest community in the state of Nevada. Since the 1990s the Las Vegas Valley has seen exponential growth, in 2014, a record breaking 41 million visited the Las Vegas area, producing a gross metropolitan product of more than $100 billion. The first reported non-Native American visitor to the Las Vegas Valley was the Mexican scout Rafael Rivera in 1829. Las Vegas was named by Mexicans in the Antonio Armijo party, including Rivera, in the 19th century, areas of the valley contained artesian wells that supported extensive green areas, or meadows, hence the name Las Vegas. The area was settled by Mormon farmers in 1854 and later became the site of a United States Army fort in 1864. Since the 1930s, Las Vegas has generally been identified as a center as well as a resort destination. Nellis Air Force Base is located in the northeast corner of the valley, the ranges that the Nellis pilots use and various other land areas used by various federal agencies, limit growth of the valley in terms of geographic area. Businessman Howard Hughes arrived in the late 1960s and purchased many casino hotels, as well as television, legitimate corporations began to purchase casino hotels as well, and the mob was run out by the federal government over the next several years. The constant stream of tourist dollars from the hotels and casinos was augmented by a new source of money from the establishment of what is now Nellis Air Force Base. The influx of personnel and casino job-hunters helped start a land building boom which is now leveling off. The Las Vegas area remains one of the top entertainment destinations. The valley is contained in the Las Vegas Valley landform and this includes the cities of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and Henderson, and the unincorporated towns of Paradise, Spring Valley, Sunrise Manor, Enterprise, Winchester, and Whitney. The valley is located within the larger metropolitan area, as the metropolitan area covers all of Clark County -including parts that do not fall within the valley. The government of Clark County has an Urban Planning Area of Las Vegas and this definition is a roughly rectangular area, about 20 mi from east to west and 30 miles from north to south. Notable exclusions from the Urban Planning Area include Red Rock, Blue Diamond, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is the largest police department in the valley and the state and exercises jurisdiction in the entire county. The department does not exercise jurisdiction in areas with separate police forces such as North Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City, Nellis Air Force Base
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Spring Mountains
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The Spring Mountains are a mountain range of southern Nevada in the United States, running generally northwest-southeast along the west side of Las Vegas and south to the border with California. The Spring Mountains range is named for the number of springs to be found, many of them in the recesses of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, which is on the eastern side of the mountains. The Great Basin Divide, continues north through the Indian Springs Pass region, the highest point is Mount Charleston, at 11,918 ft. The area around Mt. Charleston is protected in the Mount Charleston Wilderness, the area is typically 20-30°F cooler than the valleys below, and it is a popular getaway for Las Vegas residents and visitors. The Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort lies in Lee Canyon on State Highway 156, the Spring Mountains are a sky island ecosystem. Palmers chipmunk is endemic to the Spring Mountains, carpenter Canyon USDA Spring Mountain Page Overview of the Spring Mountains Spring Mountains Peaks, photos, elevations, mileage, and GPS coordinates
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Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
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It is located about 15 miles west of Las Vegas, and is easily seen from the Las Vegas Strip. The area is visited by more than two people each year. The conservation area showcases a set of red rock formations. The walls are up to 3,000 feet high, making them a popular hiking, the highest point is La Madre Mountain, at 8,154 feet. A one-way loop road,13 miles long, provides access to many of the features in the area. Several side roads and parking areas allow access to many of the area trails, a visitor center is located at the start of the loop road. The loop road is very popular for bicycle touring, it begins with a moderate climb. Red Rock Canyon is a side-canyon accessible only by a road from the scenic loop. State Route 159 cuts through an unnamed but often-visited valley, it is commonly, the Wilson Cliffs, or Keystone Thrust, a massive wall of rock, can be seen to the west from SR159. Towards the southern end of the National Conservation Area are Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, Bonnie Springs, a replica of a western ghost town, and the village of Blue Diamond. The first humans were attracted to the Red Rock area due to its resources of water, plant, hunters and gatherers such as the historical Southern Paiute and the much older Archaic, or Desert Culture Native Americans, have successively occupied this area. As many as six different Native American cultures may have been present at Red Rock over the millennia, pinto/Gypsum-3500 BC to 1 AD. San Dieguito -7000 to 5500 BC, paleo-Indians -11,000 to 8000 BC. Numerous petroglyphs, as well as fragments, remain today throughout the area. In addition, several roasting pits used by the early Native Americans at Red Rock provide further evidence of activity in the past. In the early 1900s, around the time the first European Americans settled in nearby Las Vegas and it proved to be uneconomical and was shut down. Evidence of the quarrys existence includes some of the sandstone blocks that have been left behind. The Red Rocks have been used as a location for such movies as Roy Rogers
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National Geographic Adventure (magazine)
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National Geographic Adventure was a magazine started in 1999 by the National Geographic Society in the United States. The first issue was published in Spring 1999, regular publication of the magazine ended in December 2009, and the name was reused for a biannual newsstand publication. The last issue was December 2009/January 2010, the magazine covered adventure travel, environmental issues, natural science, and other topics related to the outdoors. Next Weekend, that featured good weekend trips from all across the U. S, where Next, that featured vacation destinations across the world Annually, a slate of adventurers were named National Geographic Adventure Adventurer of the Year, in a variety of categories. For example, the December 2008/January 2009 issue named Fourteen people who dreamed big, pushed their limits, john Rasmus served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine from its inception to its closure
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Money (magazine)
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Money is a magazine that is published by Time Inc. Its first issue was published in October 1972 and its articles cover the gamut of personal finance topics ranging from investing, saving, retirement and taxes to family finance issues like paying for college, credit, career and home improvement. It is well known for its annual list of Americas Best Places to Live, the magazine, along with Fortune, was a partner with sister cable network CNN in CNNMoney. com, an arrangement made after the discontinuation of the CNNfn business news channel in 2004. In 2014, following the spin-off of Time Inc. the magazines publisher, from CNN parent Time Warner, Money launched its own website, top Editor Is Leaving Money Magazine
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Howard Hughes
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Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American businessman, investor, pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. He first made a name for himself as a film producer, later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle, oddities that were caused in part by a worsening obsessive–compulsive disorder and chronic pain from a plane crash. As a maverick film tycoon, Hughes gained prominence in Hollywood beginning in the late 1920s, when he made big-budget and often controversial films like The Racket, Hells Angels, later he controlled the RKO film studio. Hughes formed the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932, hiring numerous engineers and designers and he spent the rest of the 1930s setting multiple world air speed records and building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules. He acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines and later acquired Air West, Hughes was included in Flying Magazines list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation, ranked at No.25. Today, his legacy is maintained through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the birthplace of Howard Hughes is recorded as either Humble or Houston, Texas. The date remains uncertain due to conflicting dates from various sources and he repeatedly claimed that his birthday was on Christmas Eve. A1941 affidavit birth certificate of Hughes that was signed by his aunt Annette Gano Lummis and Estelle Boughton Sharp states that he was born on December 24,1905, in Harris County, Texas. Hughes was the son of Allene Stone Gano and Howard R. Hughes Sr. a successful inventor and he was of English, and some French Huguenot, ancestry, and was a descendant of John Gano, a minister who allegedly baptized George Washington. His father had patented the two-cone roller bit, which allowed rotary drilling for petroleum in previously inaccessible places, the senior Hughes made the shrewd and lucrative decision to commercialize the invention by leasing the bits instead of selling them, and founded the Hughes Tool Company in 1909. Hughes uncle was the famed novelist, screenwriter, and film director Rupert Hughes, at a young age, Hughes demonstrated interest in science and technology. In particular, he had great engineering aptitude and built Houstons first wireless radio transmitter at age 11 and he went on to be one of the first licensed ham radio operators in Houston, having the assigned callsign W5CY. At 12, Hughes was photographed in the newspaper, identified as being the first boy in Houston to have a motorized bicycle. He was an indifferent student, with a liking for mathematics, flying and he took his first flying lesson at 14, and later attended math and aeronautical engineering courses at Caltech. The red brick house where Hughes lived as a teenager at 3921 Yoakum St. Houston today serves as the headquarters of the Theology Department of the University of St. Thomas and his mother Allene died in March 1922 from complications of an ectopic pregnancy. Howard Hughes Sr. died of an attack in 1924. Their deaths apparently inspired Hughes to include the creation of a research laboratory in the will that he signed in 1925 at age 19. Howard Sr. s will had not been updated since Allenes death, on his 19th birthday, Hughes was declared an emancipated minor, enabling him to take full control of his life
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Howard Hughes Corporation
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The Howard Hughes Corporation is a major real estate development and management company based in Dallas, Texas. It began as part of the oil drilling tool business founded by Howard R. Hughes, Sr. in 1913, the real estate operations became a separate company, which was acquired by The Rouse Company, which in turn was acquired by General Growth Properties. In 2010, GGP formed The Howard Hughes Corporation as a separate company, the company dates to 1909 when Howard Hughes, Sr. received two patents for his revolutionary oil well drilling bits. In 1913, Hughes amd Walter Sharp incorporated the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company, in 1915, Hughes became the sole owner and renamed the company Hughes Tool Company. Hughes Sr. died in 1924, and was succeeded by his son Howard Jr, the younger Hughes became involved in many businesses, including aviation, motion pictures, radio and television broadcasting, and real estate. In 1972, Hughes Tool Company was separated from other Hughes interests, the rest of Hughes businesses were regrouped as Summa Corporation. The name Summa was adopted by corporate managers against the wishes of Hughes himself, after Hughes died in 1976 at age 70, successors at Summa refocused the company on real estate development and casino operations, selling all non-core business holdings over the next few year. Holdings sold off were, Hughes Nevada Mining, sold off in 1977, KLAS Inc. holding company for the Las Vegas affiliate of CBS, sold to Landmark Communications in 1978. Hughes Air Corporation, holding company for Hughes Air West, sold to Republic Airlines in 1979, Hughes Helicopters Inc. sold to McDonnell-Douglas in 1984 and renamed McDonnell-Douglas Helicopters. Hughes Sports Network, a company specializing in the broadcast of sporting events. Summa also owned hotels and casinos, primarily in Las Vegas, Hughes heirs sold the company to The Rouse Company in 1996, and the company survived as a Rouse subsidiary. Rouse was acquired by General Growth Properties in 2004, GGP filed for bankruptcy in 2009. Upon exiting bankruptcy, GGP spun off The Howard Hughes Corporation as a company on November 9,2010. GGP stockholders received 0.098344 shares of THHC common stock for each share of GGP common stock held, the new company owned all of GGPs planned developments. Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman took control, Hughes heirs, primarily the Lummis family, continue to hold an equity interest in Summerlin. Most of THHCs past projects have been parks in the Las Vegas area, including The Crossings, The Canyons, The Plazas, Corporate Pointe. THHC is also the manager and developer of South Street Seaport in New York City, started as a Rouse development, Landmark Mall Howard Hughes Corporation website Light-duty/civilian part of Hughes Helicopters, sold off by McDonnell-Douglas in 1995
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Downtown Summerlin (shopping center)
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The center provides about 1,600,000 square feet of retail and 200,000 square feet of business space. On May 15,2014, it was announced that the mall would be part of Downtown Summerlin and would open on October 9,2014, under The Howard Hughes Corporation, Downtown Summerlins grand opening was held on October 9,2014. Downtown Summerlin was built to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards, the mall was being built by General Growth Properties with development beginning on 106 acres in 2007. The location is along Clark County 215 just south of Red Rock Casino, because of the previous state business in 2008, construction was halted in 2008. On February 24,2010, GGP spun off development into The Howard Hughes Corporation, in 2012, Howard Hughes Corp. announced that the Shops at Summerlin Centre will resume construction in 2013 and will open in 2014 several major tenants. Downtown Summerlins official grand opening took place on October 9,2014
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Las Vegas 51s
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The Las Vegas 51s, formerly known as the Las Vegas Stars, are a Minor League Baseball team of the Pacific Coast League and the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Mets. They are located in Las Vegas, and are named for Area 51 which is located near Rachel, Nevada, the team logo jokingly depicts one of the grey aliens thought by UFO believers to inhabit that base. They play at Cashman Field which has a capacity of 9,334 people, the 51s won the PCL championship as the Stars in 1986 and 1988. Summerlin is an affluent neighborhood in the area of Las Vegas. Possible obstacles are the effects on property values and quality of life, the teams first affiliation was with the San Diego Padres from 1983 to 2000. In 2001, they became the top club of the Los Angeles Dodgers. That affiliation ended at the conclusion of the 2008 season, when the 51s signed on with the Toronto Blue Jays, on March 24,2008, Mandalay Baseball Properties sold the 51s franchise to Stevens Baseball Group. There were no plans to move the team, and talks of building a new stadium have been stagnant for the past seven years. The team has sold about 5,000 tickets per game on average the last few years, the plans came to nothing and Milam walked away from the baseball deal. The Las Vegas 51s originally began as the incarnation of the Portland Beavers baseball club. In 1973, the moved to Spokane, Washington, and were renamed the Indians. The franchise moved again in 1983, becoming the Las Vegas Stars. The Stars became the first professional team to play in Las Vegas since the Las Vegas Wranglers baseball club who played from 1947–52. The following season, the Stars posted another successful campaign going 71–65 and winning their division championship. After a dismal 85 campaign, the Stars returned to their winning ways posting an 80–62 record, in the league semifinals, the Stars defeated the Phoenix Firebirds 3-2 and went on to win their first PCL Championship, defeating the Vancouver Canadians in five games. The Stars won their second PCL Championship two years later, once again defeating Vancouver, this time in four games, the Stars were unable to advance past the first round of the playoffs in both seasons that they qualified. In 2001, after 18 years as the San Diego Padres top affiliate, the Stars then affiliated with the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose Triple-A affiliate, the Albuquerque Dukes, moved to Portland, Oregon to become the fourth incarnation of the Beavers. The team adopted a logo featuring an alien head and introduced a mascot
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Bureau of Land Management
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President Harry S. Truman created the BLM in 1946 by combining two existing agencies, the General Land Office and the Grazing Service. Most BLM public lands are located in these 12 western states, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. The mission of the BLM is to sustain the health, diversity, originally BLM holdings were described as land nobody wanted because homesteaders had passed them by. All the same, ranchers hold nearly 18,000 permits, the agency manages 221 wilderness areas,23 national monuments and some 636 other protected areas as part of the National Landscape Conservation System totaling about 30 million acres. There are more than 63,000 oil and gas wells on BLM public lands, total energy leases generated approximately $5.4 billion in 2013, an amount divided among the Treasury, the states, and Native American groups. The BLMs roots go back to the Land Ordinance of 1785 and these laws provided for the survey and settlement of the lands that the original 13 colonies ceded to the federal government after the American Revolution. As additional lands were acquired by the United States from Spain, France and other countries, the United States Congress directed that they be explored, surveyed, during the Revolutionary War, military bounty land was promised to soldiers who fought for the colonies. After the war, the Treaty of Paris of 1783, signed by the United States, England, France, in the 1780s, other states relinquished their own claims to land in modern-day Ohio. By this time, the United States needed revenue to function, Land was sold so that the government would have money to survive. In order to sell the land, surveys needed to be conducted, the Land Ordinance of 1785 instructed a geographer to oversee this work as undertaken by a group of surveyors. The first years of surveying were completed by trial and error, once the territory of Ohio had been surveyed, in 1812, Congress established the General Land Office as part of the Department of the Treasury to oversee the disposition of these federal lands. By the early 1800s, promised bounty land claims were finally fulfilled, over the years, other bounty land and homestead laws were enacted to dispose of federal land. Several different types of patents existed and these include cash entry, credit, homestead, Indian, military warrants, mineral certificates, private land claims, railroads, state selections, swamps, town sites, and town lots. A system of land offices spread throughout the territories, patenting land that was surveyed via the corresponding Office of the Surveyor General of a particular territory. This pattern gradually spread across the entire United States, the laws that spurred this system with the exception of the General Mining Law of 1872 and the Desert Land Act of 1877 have since been repealed or superseded. The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 allowed leasing, exploration, and production of selected commodities, such as coal, oil, gas, the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 established the United States Grazing Service to manage the public rangelands by establishment of advisory boards that set grazing fees. The Oregon and California Revested Lands Sustained Yield Management Act of 1937, commonly referred as the O&C Act, in 1946, the Grazing Service was merged with the General Land Office to form the Bureau of Land Management within the Department of the Interior. It took several years for new agency to integrate and reorganize
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Great Recession
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The Great Recession was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s. The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country, in terms of overall impact, the International Monetary Fund concluded that it was the worst global recession since World War II. According to the US National Bureau of Economic Research the recession, as experienced in that country, began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, the Great Recession was related to the financial crisis of 2007–08 and U. S. subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–09. The Great Recession has resulted in the scarcity of valuable assets in the market economy, under the academic definition, the recession ended in the United States in June or July 2009. In the broader, lay sense of the word however, many use the term to refer to ongoing hardship. The Great Recession met the IMF criteria for being a recession, requiring a decline in annual real world GDP per‑capita. According to the U. S. National Bureau of Economic Research the recession began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, the years leading up to the crisis were characterized by an exorbitant rise in asset prices and associated boom in economic demand. Further, the U. S. shadow banking system had grown to rival the depository system yet was not subject to the regulatory oversight. US mortgage-backed securities, which had risks that were hard to assess, were marketed around the world, the emergence of sub-prime loan losses in 2007 began the crisis and exposed other risky loans and over-inflated asset prices. With loan losses mounting and the fall of Lehman Brothers on 15 September 2008, the global recession that followed resulted in a sharp drop in international trade, rising unemployment and slumping commodity prices. Several economists predicted that recovery might not appear until 2011 and that the recession would be the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s, Economist Paul Krugman once commented on this as seemingly the beginning of a second Great Depression. Governments and central banks responded with fiscal and monetary policies to national economies. The recession has renewed interest in Keynesian economic ideas on how to combat recessionary conditions, economists advise that the stimulus should be withdrawn as soon as the economies recover enough to chart a path to sustainable growth. Income inequality in the United States has grown from 2005 to 2012 in more than 2 out of 3 metropolitan areas, median household wealth fell 35% in the US, from $106,591 to $68,839 between 2005 and 2011. The majority report of the U. S, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, composed of six Democratic and four Republican appointees, reported its findings in January 2011. There were two Republican dissenting FCIC reports, one of them, signed by three Republican appointees, concluded that there were multiple causes. He wrote, When the bubble began to deflate in mid-2007, There are several narratives attempting to place the causes of the recession into context, with overlapping elements. Four such narratives include, There was the equivalent of a run on the shadow banking system
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Nevada State Route 159
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State Route 159 is a 31. 007-mile east–west highway in southern Nevada, providing access to Red Rock Canyon and serving as a thoroughfare in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. A portion of the west end of the route is designated a Nevada Scenic Byway, State Route 159 has two distinct segments. The first segment is a rural highway that begins at its junction with SR160. The highway proceeds northwest through the town of Blue Diamond towards Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, from there, the highway curves northeast around Red Rock Canyon to the Las Vegas city limits west of the Las Vegas Beltway. This segment of SR159 is known on maps and signs as Blue Diamond Road, as SR159 enters the city of Las Vegas, it transitions into Charleston Boulevard, a major east–west section line arterial bisecting the Las Vegas Valley. The highway crosses the Las Vegas Beltway and runs through the community of Summerlin. SR159 continues east to intersect Interstate 15 and then south of Downtown Las Vegas. From there, the highway further east to intersect Interstate 515. Routes 93 and 95 before reaching its terminus at Nellis Boulevard, a portion of Charleston Boulevard was previously designated U. S. Route 95 Alternate to bypass downtown Las Vegas. The designation began at Fremont Street and continued west to Rancho Drive, the alternate route was discontinued in 1982. Approximately 8.8 miles of SR159 in Red Rock Canyon was designated a Nevada Scenic Byway on June 30,1995, the entire route is in Clark County. Current RTC route 206 functions on this road
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One Queensridge Place
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One Queensridge Place is the name given to two residential skyscrapers located on the west side of the Las Vegas Valley in the highly affluent Queensridge neighborhood of Summerlin, Nevada. Construction began in 2005 and concluded in 2007, the buildings are twins, measuring approximately 233.5 feet high. Each tower has 20 constructed floors with curtain wall facades and distinctive architecture, the resulting large windows allow for views of the Las Vegas Strip and the Red Rock Mountains. The project would have offered full-time security, concierge and valet service, a spa, a ballroom, construction, to be handled by Taurus Development – a Canada-based international real estate developer – was to begin in May 1998, and was scheduled to be completed 14 months later. Five other companies were involved in the development, including Peccole Nevada Corporation. Condo units for Versailles had gone on sale by April 1999, Taurus Development planned to begin construction the following month, with an expected completion date of early 2001. In December 2000, Peccole Nevada announced that Taurus Development was no longer involved with the project, at that time, Peccole Nevada was also preparing to develop a separate resort on nearby land that would consist of 300 fractional timeshare-like units. A new project was announced in July 2004, as Queensridge Towers, at that time, it was to consist of three 18-story towers and one 14-story tower, with a total of 385 condominium units at an average of 3,850 square feet. The smallest units would be in the 2,000 square-foot range, the average price for a unit would be $1 million. The first phase of construction – two 18-story towers – began in April 2005, with the now named One Queensridge Place. The project, developed by Peccole Nevada and Executive Home Builders, was designed by JMA Architecture Studios, in November 2005, IDB Development Corporation joined the project as an investment partner. In January 2006, the received a $250 million construction loan from HSBC. At that time, Perini Building had finished the eighth floor of one tower and the floor of the other tower. The towers were topped off in May 2006, as of February 2007, the project was 85 percent sold. Construction had finished by September 2007, the first residents were expected to begin occupying the building early that month. The water district had banned commercial fountains in 2003, because of a drought, the water district later decided not to fine the property after being informed that the fountain was part of the buildings cooling system. Engineers believed the system would generate energy savings of 10 to 12 percent for the property. In April 2009, the 219-unit property had only sold six units in the past six months because of a recession
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Mojave Desert
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The Mojave Desert is an arid rain-shadow desert and the driest desert in North America. It is located in the southwestern United States, primarily within southeastern California and southern Nevada, very small areas also extend into Utah and Arizona. The central part of the desert is sparsely populated, while its peripheries support large communities such as Las Vegas, Lancaster, Palmdale, Victorville, the Mojave Desert is bordered by the Great Basin Desert to its north and the Sonoran Desert to its south and east. Topographical boundaries include the Tehachapi Mountains to the west, and the San Gabriel Mountains, the mountain boundaries are distinct because they are outlined by the two largest faults in California – the San Andreas and Garlock faults. The Mojave Desert displays typical basin and range topography and it occupies less than 50,000 sq mi, making it the smallest of the North American deserts. The Mojave Desert is often referred to as the desert, in contrast to the low desert. However, the Mojave Desert is generally lower than the Great Basin Desert to the north, the spelling Mojave originates from the Spanish language while the spelling Mohave comes from modern English. The Mojave Desert receives less than 13 in of rain a year and is generally between 2,000 and 5,000 feet in elevation, zion National Park in Utah lies at the junction of the Mojave, the Great Basin Desert, and the Colorado Plateau. Despite its aridity, the Mojave has long been a center of production, fed by irrigation coming from groundwater. The Mojave is a desert of temperature extremes and two distinct seasons, winter months bring comfortable daytime temperatures, which dip precipitously to around 20 °F on valley floors, and below 0 °F at higher elevations. Storms moving from the Pacific Northwest can bring rain and in places even snow. More often, the shadow created by the Sierra Nevada as well as mountain ranges within the desert such as the Spring Mountains, bring only clouds. By early June, it is rare for another Pacific storm to have a significant impact on the regions weather, summer weather is dominated by heat. Temperatures on valley floors can soar above 120 °F and above 130 °F at the lowest elevations, low humidity, high temperatures, and low pressure, draw in moisture from the Gulf of Mexico creating thunderstorms across the desert southwest known as the North American monsoon. Autumn is generally pleasant, with one to two Pacific storm systems creating regional rain events, october is one of the driest and sunniest months in the Mojave, and temperatures usually remain between 70 °F and 90 °F on the valley floors. After temperature, wind is the most significant weather phenomenon in the Mojave, during the June Gloom, cooler air can be pushed out into the desert from Southern California. In Santa Ana wind events, hot air from the desert blows out into the Los Angeles basin, wind farms in these areas generate power from these winds. The other major factor in the region is elevation
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Downtown Las Vegas
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Downtown Las Vegas is the central business district and historic center of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the townsite and was the gambling district of Las Vegas prior to the Strip. Downtown is located in the center of the Las Vegas Valley and just north of the Las Vegas Strip, centered on Fremont Street, the Fremont Street Experience and Fremont East. The city defines the area as bounded by I-15 on the west, Washington Avenue on the north, Maryland Parkway on the east, perhaps the earliest visitors to the Las Vegas area were nomadic Paleo-Indians, who traveled here 10,000 years ago, leaving behind petroglyphs. Anasazi and Paiute tribes came here at least 2,000 years ago, the area was named Las Vegas, which is Spanish for the meadows, in the 1800s because it featured abundant wild grasses, as well as desert spring waters for westward travelers. The year 1844 marked the arrival of John C, frémont, whose writings helped lure pioneers to the area. Downtown Las Vegas’ Fremont Street is named after him, eleven years later, members of the LDS Church chose Las Vegas as the site to build a fort halfway between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, where they would travel to gather supplies. The fort was abandoned several years afterward, the remainder of this fort can still be seen at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Washington Avenue at the Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park. Las Vegas was founded as a city in 1905, when 110 acres of adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks were auctioned in what would become the downtown area. In 1911, Las Vegas was incorporated as a city, the year 1931 was a pivotal one for Las Vegas. At that time, Nevada legalized casino gambling and reduced residency requirements for divorce to six weeks and this year also witnessed the beginning of construction on nearby Hoover Dam. The influx of workers and their families helped Las Vegas avoid economic calamity during the Great Depression. Following World War II, lavishly decorated hotels, gambling casinos, the 1950s saw the opening of the Moulin Rouge Hotel, the first racially integrated casino-hotel in Las Vegas. In 1951, the first atomic bomb detonation at the Nevada Test Site,65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, City residents and visitors were able to witness the mushroom clouds until 1963, when the Limited Test Ban Treaty required that nuclear tests be moved underground. During the 1960s, corporations and business such as Howard Hughes were building and buying hotel-casino properties. Gambling was referred to as gaming, which transitioned into legitimate business, in 1989, entrepreneur Steve Wynn changed the face of the Las Vegas gaming industry by opening up The Mirage, the Las Vegas Strip’s first mega-casino resort. This strengthened the pull of visitors away from the downtown area, in 1995, the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas’ downtown area was opened. This canopied, five-block area features 12.5 million LED lights and 550,000 watts of sound from dusk until midnight during shows held on the top of each hour
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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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Wet'n'Wild Las Vegas
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WetnWild Las Vegas is a water park in Spring Valley, Nevada. The park is part of Village Roadshow Theme Parks WetnWild chain of parks located across the world. The park opened in May 2013 and is located at 7055 S. Fort Apache Road, southwest of the I-215, on August 6,2011, plans to develop a 26-acre water park in the Las Vegas Valley were unveiled. The owners of the Hawaiian Falls chain of parks in Texas were behind the proposal to open the park by Memorial Day Weekend 2012. On November 14,2011, Splash Canyon Waterpark was officially announced along with a listing of the rides, on February 3,2012, it was announced that the opening of the water park would be delayed by a year to ensure everything would be completely operational before opening. In June 2012, Australian-based entertainment company Village Roadshow revealed they had plans to open a WetnWild-branded water park in Las Vegas. On October 4,2012, it was announced that Village Roadshow Theme Parks would be opening WetnWild Las Vegas in May 2013 on the site of the proposed Splash Canyon Waterpark. Village Roadshow holds a 51% stake in the park with private investors including Andre Agassi, the 41-acre water park cost over US$50 million. In mid-May 2013, WetnWild Las Vegas announced the opening and operating schedule. Due to the popularity of the park, WetnWild Las Vegas opening was staggered for different ticket holders. Following a private grand opening party on May 23, the park opened to Gold Pass holders on May 25, Season Pass holders on May 28, official website WetnWild Las Vegas Flyover on YouTube
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Vegas Golden Knights
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The Vegas Golden Knights are a professional ice hockey team that will be based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The team is scheduled to play in the 2017–18 NHL season. The team is owned by Black Knight Sports & Entertainment, a consortium led by Bill Foley, every year since 1997, Las Vegas has hosted Frozen Fury, a pre-season competition between the Los Angeles Kings and the Colorado Avalanche at the 16, 800-seat MGM Grand Garden Arena. Although the NHL Awards ceremonies are held in Las Vegas, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman denied that it had anything to do with being a potential relocation or expansion spot. In 2009, the media speculated about a plan involving the Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer to move the then known as the Phoenix Coyotes to Nevada. Rumors of a Las Vegas expansion team surfaced again in August 2014, the Vancouver newspaper The Province reported that a Las Vegas team was a done deal, but deputy commissioner Bill Daly denied claims that the NHL had plans to expand. However, neither Foley, the Maloofs, AEG, or MGM commented on the speculation, however, Bettman also warned the media to make more out of this than it is. During an interview with Hockey Night in Canadas Elliotte Friedman aired on December 13,2014, on February 10,2015, the season ticket drive began, with interested parties placing ten percent deposits on season tickets for a prospective team at the new arena by the 2016–17 season. On June 24,2015, the league officially opened up the window for prospective owners to bid on expansion teams, by this point, Foley had secured more than 13,200 season-ticket deposits for the arena. On August 5,2015, the NHL announced it had invited both Las Vegas and Quebec to move into Phase II of the expansion bid. The bid subsequently advanced to Phase III, which ended on September 4, on September 29, Bill Foley and Quebecor met the NHLs executive committee in New York City to present their respective bids. During a press conference later that day, Gary Bettman officially announced that the franchise had been awarded to Las Vegas. It was the expansion bid approved, with its Quebec rival deferred to a later date. Foley announced that former Washington Capitals general manager George McPhee would become the franchises GM, Foley has also begun the process of pursuing a regional television rights holder for the team, but has also considered starting a dedicated regional sports network for it. On August 2,2016, Kelly McCrimmon, owner of the WHLs Brandon Wheat Kings, was hired as assistant general manager. The team is the first major sports franchise to be based in Las Vegas. Foleys original preferred name for the team was the Las Vegas Black Knights—in tribute to the Army Black Knights. When he hired McPhee, Foley stated that he was working with the league to determine a suitable brand for the team, but when we do, thats when well have our big public celebration
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JW Marriott Las Vegas
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JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort and Spa is a luxury hotel in Summerlin, Nevada, near Las Vegas. The 54-acre resort was designed using a Tuscan/Tropical theme, golf was a component of the project from the start as it acquired tee times at the adjacent Tournament Players Club course with direct access from the resort. The hotel and spa as well as the Rampart Casino are operated by Hotspur Resorts which franchises the JW Marriott name, in August 1997, the property was approved to hold a gaming license, with ground breaking expected to begin by October 15,1997. The Resort at Summerlin quietly opened its doors on July 15,1999 and it was described as Las Vegas first off-Strip luxury resort, according to its developers. Steelman Partners was the architect and interior designers, the property had 54 acres and included a 40,000 sq ft spa,11 acres of private gardens and pools, and the Regent Grand Palms and Regent Grand Spa hotels. The two hotels combined offer 541 guest rooms and suites, guests were given access to preferred tee times on seven courses at five area golf facilities. The Resort at Summerlin was managed by Las Vegas-based Seven Circle Resorts, an owned subsidiary of Swiss Casinos of America. In December 1999, the property was renamed as the Regent Las Vegas, as part of a partnership with Regent International Hotels, Swiss Casinos had built successful luxury casinos as St. Gallen Switzerland and in South Africa. They spent over $270 million to create a resort with the goal of earning a 5 diamond rating from AAA. In June 2000, Swiss Casinos planned to purchase an adjacent 22-acre parcel, Swiss Casinos had until August 15,2000, to purchase the property, and planned to begin development within 18 months. On September 15,2000, the companies owned the Regent defaulted on various payments. In November 2000, executives were nogotiating a potential deal with creditors, by that time,239 employees had lost their jobs at the resort, out of 1,700. The Regent filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy later that month, and was purchased in a U. S. Bankruptcy Court auction for $80 million by Vancouver-based Hotspur Resorts. Hotspur brought in Marriott to operate the hotel, the casino was leased to Nevada-licensed Millennium Management on a 10-year lease, and renamed the Rampart Casino at the Resort at Summerlin. The lease ended April 1,2012 and management of the casino shifted back to Hotspur, the hotel rooms have a minimum of 560 square feet of space. The 40,000 square foot spa offers many services and includes a 65,000 square foot convention center, JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort and Spa web site
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Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa
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Red Rock Resort is a hotel and casino. It is owned and operated by Station Casinos on 70 acres located in Downtown Summerlin in the village of Summerlin Centre in Summerlin, Nevada. Located on Charleston Boulevard, at the interchange of Clark County 215 and some distance from the Las Vegas Strip and it is the flagship property of Station Casinos and the companys corporate headquarters is located on the property. The tower is the second tallest in Summerlin after One Queensridge Place, beginning in 2003 and continuing into 2004 there were significant discussions about the construction of the proposed towers. The problem was rooted in a zoning variance granted to the Howard Hughes Corporation from the normal 100 feet to 200 feet for the site there was no development in the area. After much discussion between Station Casinos, Howard Hughes Corporation, Clark County, and residents, a consensus was reached that allowed the project to move forward, the hotel tower was reduced in height to 198 feet and the condominium towers were eliminated from the project. The project was designed by Portland, Oregon-based Architropolis, Las Vegas-based The Friedmutter Group and SADI, with landscape designed by Newport Beach, ground was broken on April 15,2004 with a projected cost of $475 million. On March 15,2005, Station Casinos announced an Accelerated Expansion plan to double the number of rooms available in the tower. The total projected cost of over $930 million would make it one of the most expensive casino ever built. It was announced in February 2006 that the season of the Hells Kitchen reality show would offer the winner the executive chef position at a fine dining restaurant to be built in the resort. The winner of the contest was a 25-year-old sous chef from New York named Heather West, since winning Hells Kitchen 2, Heather West had still yet to be given the prize of Executive Chef. Instead, Red Rock management had decided to give her a position suitable to her skills - Senior Chef at the Terra Rossa, in 2007, Red Rock Resort opened their 72 lane bowling center, the most expensive center ever built. Some scenes from the 2008 feature film 21 were shot at the Red Rock, rapper Nellys video Body On Me, featuring singers Ashanti and Akon was filmed on location at Red Rock Resort in 2009. The hotel tower has palm trees planted on top of the roof facing the Las Vegas Strip, while growing up in Las Vegas, they remembered the contemporary elegance displayed in Las Vegas casinos of the past, such as the Desert Inn. They seek to include a taste of the past in their new hotel with these chandeliers, in all, the total cost for all the chandeliers and other Swarovski crystal features throughout Red Rock Resort cost over $6 million. Red Rock Resort has a collection of art. At one time, its collection included work by Andy Warhol, today, its collection includes the Love sculpture by Robert Indiana in the pool area and other works of art by Takashi Murakami, Vik Muniz and Paul McCarthy throughout the property. As of March 1,2006, construction was underway on a second 450-room hotel tower and it doubled the amount of rooms at the resort
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Suncoast Hotel and Casino
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Suncoast is a hotel and casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming, the hotel, located on a 50 acres site, contains 432 rooms and has an 82, 000-square-foot casino as well as a Century group movie theatre, bowling alley and conference room / meeting space. It is sometimes listed as being in Summerlin, but it is located next to Summerlin. When it was built, the tower was the tallest structure on the west side of the Las Vegas Valley, in July 1998, a $145-million dollar project, the Sundance, was announced. The project would be built on 50 acres at the northwest corner of Rampart Boulevard and Alta Drive, in February 1999, the projects name was changed to Suncoast, due to a copyright issue with the Sundance Film Festival. It was built by Michael Gaughans Coast Resorts, hence the Suncoast moniker, Suncoast officials began interviewing potential employees in early June 2000. Many applicants had worked at the Desert Inn, which was preparing to close later that year, in late August 2000, the Suncoast had less than 50 remaining job positions to fill, out of a total of 1,800. An opening date of September 1,2000, was initially targeted, the project was built at a cost of $185 million. The Suncoast opened on September 12,2000, with a five-minute, at the time, it was expected that as many as 90% of the propertys customers would be local Las Vegas residents rather than out of town tourists. Johnny Johnson, Gaughans college friend at the University of San Francisco, attended the opening ceremony. More than 2,100 of the Suncoasts slot machines, approximately 96 percent, were coin-free, the Suncoast and the Fiesta were the first major resorts in Nevada to utilize the concept of coinless slot machines, with the Suncoast being the largest to test the new technology. Century Theatres opened its multiplex, located inside the casino, on September 15,2000 and that same day, the Suncoasts 460-seat showroom hosted its first concert performance, Air Supply. In 2008, Primos Steakhouse was changed to SC Prime Steakhouse, the casino has hosted many events for the Las Vegas-based wrestling promotion ECWA including InterAction 7, Summer Bash 13, Black X-Mas 9, and ExtremeTV. In 2015, The Suncoast became the home to the Artisan Craft Festival. The event is held 4-6 times a year in the Grand Ballroom
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Westin Hotels & Resorts
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Westin Hotels & Resorts is an American upscale hotel chain owned by Marriott International. As of 2013, Westin operated over 192 hotels in multiple countries across the globe, in 1930, Severt W. Thurston and Frank Dupar of Seattle, Washington met unexpectedly during breakfast at a diner in Yakima, Washington. The competing hotel owners decided to form a management company to all their properties. The men invited Peter and Adolph Schmidt, who operated five hotels in the Puget Sound area, to join them, the chain consisted of 17 properties,16 in Washington and one in Boise, Idaho. Western expanded to Vancouver, British Columbia and Portland, Oregon in 1931, by the early 1950s, Western also had properties in Montana and Utah. Early management developed each property individually, after more than two decades of rapid growth, many of its properties were merged into a single corporate structure in 1958, focusing on bringing the hotels together under a common chain identity. Western Hotels managed a floating hotel aboard the ocean liner QSMV Dominion Monarch, the chain also managed the restaurant atop the Space Needle, which they continued to manage until 1982. The company was renamed Western International Hotels in 1963, to reflect its growth overseas and that same year, the company went public. On November 1,1965, Western International announced an agreement with Hotel Corporation of America. In 1970, Western International was acquired by UAL Corporation, at the end of its 50th anniversary on January 5,1981, the company changed its name again to Westin Hotels. In 1987, UAL Chairman Richard Ferris announced a plan to make UAL into Allegis, a conglomerate based around United Airlines, Hertz Rent a Car, Hilton Hotels. This strategy failed, however, and Westin was sold in 1988 to Aoki Corporation of Japan, in 1994 Aoki sold it to Starwood Capital, real estate investment firm and parent of Starwood Lodging, and Goldman Sachs, an investment bank. In 1998 Starwood assumed full ownership of the company, Westin claims to have been the first hotel chain to introduce guest credit cards, 24-hour room service, and personal voice mail in each room. Westin markets certain amenities available in its properties to the public under the brand name Heavenly, in 2005, Westin became the first hotel company to gain a national retail store presence when Nordstrom started carrying the Heavenly Bed line in more than 60 stores. Westin refreshed its partnership with United Airlines in 2008 and these amenities were stopped following the merger with Continental Airlines. Especially in the last decade, Westin has focused on expanding globally, since 2005, the number of hotels has grown from 120 locations in 24 countries to over 192 locations in 37 countries as of 2013. In 2016, Marriott International acquired Starwood, becoming the worlds largest hotel company, the Westin Palace Madrid - historic 1912 luxury hotel in Madrid The Westin San Jose - Formerly the Saint Claire and Hyatt Saint Claire. Westin Hamburg - opened in 2016 and located in Hamburgs iconic Elbphilharmonie concert hall The Westin Sydney Westin Alumni Association, www. westinalumni. org Westin Hotels & Resorts Westin Hotel Store
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Spring Valley, Nevada
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Spring Valley is an unincorporated town and census-designated place and part of Las Vegas Township in Clark County, Nevada, United States, located 2 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip. The population was 178,395 at the 2010 census, Spring Valley was formed in May,1981. After purchasing the land occupied by Stardust International Raceway, Pardee Homes began developing a housing community called Spring Valley southwest of Las Vegas in the mid-1970s. By 1981, residents grouped together to solicit the Clark County Commission to create an unincorporated town, the town originally encompassed 1 square mile, but now occupies much of the southwest quarter of the Las Vegas Valley, totaling 33.4 square miles. The predominant boundaries of Spring Valley are Sahara Avenue on the north, Decatur Boulevard on the east, Warm Springs Road on the south, the area mostly consists of housing subdivisions, with strip malls lining the large boulevards that connect suburban Las Vegas to the Strip. The northern part of Spring Valley includes areas of rural-estate zoning, the southern part of Spring Valley is quickly developing – fifteen years ago, very little south of Tropicana Avenue was developed within Spring Valley. A large park, Desert Breeze Park, is located in the part of the town. Its municipal government is the Clark County Commission, which has seven members from across Southern Nevada, a five-member Town Advisory Board offers advisory opinions on zoning and business matters to the commission, but the commission is not obligated to respond or be held to those suggestions. Spring Valley is the home of tennis players Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, as well as former Sacramento Kings owners George J. Maloof, the Sultan of Brunei keeps a residence there at 99 Spanish Gate Drive, and Carrot Top has his Las Vegas residence in the area. Blogger and reality TV personality J. Son Dinant resides in Spring Valley, NASCAR drivers Kurt and Kyle Busch attended Durango High School in Spring Valley, as did actress Cerina Vincent and BMX celebrity T. J. Lavin. According to the United States Census Bureau, the place of Spring Valley has a total area of 33.4 sq mi. At the census of 2010, there were 178,395 people residing in the CDP. The racial makeup was 57. 9% White,9. 8% African American,0. 6% Native American,17. 4% Asian,0. 8% Pacific Islander, and 5. 0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 20. 6% of the population and 48. 1% of the population was non-Hispanic White. As of the census of 2000, there were 117,390 people,47,964 households, the population density was 3,519. 4/sq mi. There were 52,870 housing units at a density of 1. The racial makeup of the CDP was 72. 60% White,5. 29% African American,0. 60% Native American,11. 21% Asian,0. 48% Pacific Islander,5. 14% from other races, and 4. 67% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 13. 77% of the population,25. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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West Career and Technical Academy
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West Career and Technical Academy is a magnet high school located in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The school opened in 2010 as the first magnet school in Summerlin and it is administered by the Clark County School District. West Tech offers nine programs to students for a career in the field selected. After one and a years of construction costing $83.5 million. For its first year of operation, West Tech admitted 750 freshmen, in December 2014, student Angelique Clark applied to begin a pro-life club at the school, however, the administration denied her application, claiming the subject was too controversial. She proceeded to send two letters to CCSD, but when she failed to receive a response, she sued West Tech in August 2015. The following month, the agreed to the formation of the club. The school is built on 42 acres of land at the foothills of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, the buildings of the school occupy 224,884 square feet. A rotating solar panel and a heat source exchange system help to power the campus. There is also a weather station and four greenhouses, which are used to facilitate students learning in horticulture, biotechnology. West Tech also includes computer labs and a student WiFi system. Students select one of these programs to study high school, designed to assist them in future studies. West Tech utilizes the Google Apps for Education, which grant each student a free account, access to Google Sites. The school offers several career and technical student organizations, including DECA, FBLA, Skills USA, there are no NIAA sports teams. Yvonne Caples – Former Computer Based Projects teacher Media related to West Career and Technical Academy at Wikimedia Commons School website Clark County School District website
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Magnet school
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In the U. S. education system, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. Magnet refers to how the schools students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools. There are magnet schools at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, other magnet programs are within comprehensive schools, as is the case with several schools within a school. In large urban areas, several schools with different specializations may be combined into a single center. Other countries have similar types of schools, such as specialist schools in England, the majority of these are academically selective. Other schools are built around elite-sporting programs or teach agricultural skills such as farming or animal breeding, at first, districts tried using involuntary plans which involved court-ordered attendance, the busing of children far from their homes, and building closer schools to achieve the required balance. Later, voluntary school integration plans were developed, one approach that educators within the public school system came up with was open schools. These schools were characterized by parent, student, and teacher choice, autonomy in learning and pace, non-competitive evaluation, Magnet schools have been the most successful of the ideas that originated from the Open Schools movement. It was expounded in 1971 by educator Nolan Estes, superintendent of Dallas Independent School District, the Magnet Schools Assistance Program was developed in the early 1980s as a way to encourage schools to address de facto racial segregation. Funds were given to districts that implemented voluntary desegregation plans or court orders to reduce racial isolation. The districts annual budget more than tripled in the process, the expenditure per pupil and the student-teacher ratio were the best of any major school district in the nation. Many high schools were given college-level facilities, still, test scores in the magnet schools did not rise, the black-white gap did not diminish, and there was less, not greater, integration. Finally, on September 20,2011, The Missouri Board of Education voted unanimously to withdraw the districts accreditation status from January 1,2012. To encourage the voluntary desegregation, districts started developing magnet schools to students to specialized schools all across their districts. Each magnet school would have a curriculum that would draw students based on their interests. One of the goals of schools is to eliminate, reduce. Magnet schools still continue to be models for school improvement plans, with a wide range of magnet schools available, a suitable program could be found for more children than only the bright ones for whom the earliest efforts were directed. Some 21st-century magnet schools have de-emphasized the racial aspects, such as Capital Prep Magnet School
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Durango High School (Nevada)
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Durango High School is a public high school in Spring Valley, Nevada, USA, with an enrollment of approximately 2600 students. It is a part of the Area 4 region of the Clark County School District, Durango High Schools main sports rivals are Bishop Gorman High School and Spring Valley High School. Between 1993 and 2005, students were required to follow a schedule of 6 periods. Beginning in the 2006-07 school year, Durango switched to a block schedule, from the 2009-10 school year, all schools in Clark County have switched back to the former 6 period schedule. This did not include seniors, who only have 4 classes, in the 2000-2001 school year, Durango had the largest number of students in its history with some 3,647 students. The number of openings of other schools and rezonings to alternative schools removed the strain, by the 2005-2006 school year, Durango enrolled 2,243 students. Annually, the school broadcast an episode of Z-Man & Z-Boy on Durango Highs television station, the last episode was in 2012. Durango High Schools sports teams are known as the Trailblazers and compete in the Southwest Division of the Sunset 4A Region, the main rival is Spring Valley High School. J. Louis Cardinals David M. Gardner, Nevada State Assemblyman Chris Kelly, Baseball player
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Bishop Gorman High School
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Bishop Gorman High School is a Roman Catholic, private, preparatory school located in Summerlin, Nevada. The school is administered by the Diocese of Las Vegas, and has been serving Clark County, the school opened in 1954 and its mascot is a Gael, or mounted Irish Knight. The school opened September 7,1954, Bishop Dwyer named it after his predecessor, The Most Reverend Thomas K. Gorman, the first Bishop of the Reno-Las Vegas Diocese. From its inception, the school has been administered by the Clerics of Saint Viator, the campus was originally located near Downtown Las Vegas, at 1801 S. Classes began at its current Summerlin location on September 5,2007, the new 187,000 square feet school, located on a campus of 36 acres, cost $96 million. The Gaels have become one of the most prominent high school program in the state of Nevada. Additionally, the Gaels have been recognized by national publications including USA Today. In the summer of 2008, the Gaels baseball team, sponsored by American Legion Post 76 in Las Vegas, won the American Legion World Series, a first for any Nevada high school. They ended up fielding 798 points total in football, more than any high school in the nation for the 2009 season. In the 2009/2010 year they became the first Nevada school in over forty years to win the championship in all three major sports. Its basketball team is ranked in the Nations Top 10. Coach Tony Sanchez took over as Bishop Gorman High Schools head football coach in March 2009, in 2010 and 2011, he led Gorman to a varsity record of 28-2 and an overall program record of 61-4. At the start of the 2012 season, Gorman beat nationally ranked teams Our Lady of Good Counsel, both matches were televised, by ESPN and Fox networks, respectively. In 2014 and 2015, Bishop Gorman won back-to-back National Championships, baseball Gorman holds the state record for most consecutive championships in this sport. Basketball Bowling Football Golf Lacrosse Soccer Swimming Tennis Basketball Bowling Golf Lacrosse Soccer Swimming Tennis Track & Field
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The Meadows School
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The Meadows School is a non-profit, coeducational, nonsectarian, independent college preparatory day school located in the affluent Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada. The campus serves just under 900 students in grades pre-k through 12 spread among four divisions – Beginning School, Lower School, Middle School, and Upper School. For the 2014-15 school year, The Meadows has an enrollment of 881 students. Class sizes are limited to 18 students in the Beginning and Upper Schools and 20 students in the Lower, the Upper School offers students 24 AP courses and in 2014 had an AP exam pass rate of 100%. In 2016, The Washington Post named The Meadows School the #2 most challenging high school in Nevada, since its first Upper School Commencement in 1991,100 percent of graduates from The Meadows School have been accepted into four-year colleges or universities. The Meadows School was first conceptualized by Carolyn Goodman in the early 1970s, modeled largely after her alma mater, The Brearley School in Manhattan, and the teaching philosophy of Dr. Cobbley, Goodman incorporated the nonprofit School in 1981 as the Clark County Day School. Three years later and with Dr. Cobbley serving as the founding Headmistress, The Meadows School officially opened on September 4,1984, at the time that The Meadows School opened in 1984, a permanent campus site had not yet been found. In lieu of a permanent location, Goodman raised $300,000, the lot was loaned to the School by Board Member Fletcher Jones, Jr. and was located, coincidentally, on Meadows Lane in northern Las Vegas. These buildings served as the School’s classrooms until the permanent campus was opened four years later, in 1985, Carolyn Goodman was introduced to William Lummis, the nephew of Howard Hughes and the Chairman of the Board for the Summa Corporation. The Summa Corporation was in the stages of developing the northwest area of Las Vegas. Recognizing the correlation between strong communities and good schools, the Summa Corproation donated 40 acres of undeveloped land to the School for a permanent campus, construction on the new campus began in the fall of 1987. The permanent campus was situated on Scholar Lane, a name chosen by the students for their new school. One year later, at the beginning of the 1988 school year, students study English, mathematics, and social studies on a daily basis, and take specialized classes throughout the week in science, physical education, and music. Students in grades K-5 are also required to study Spanish as part of their curriculum, in addition to the academic curriculum, strong emphasis is also placed on learning and exemplifying good citizenship. The Middle and Upper School programs follow a traditional curriculum modeled primarily after that of the top East Coast preparatory schools, outside of their academic studies, students in these divisions must also participate in either physical education classes or interscholastic athletics. In addition to the school year, The Meadows School also offers several summer classes for incoming. Recognizing the importance that technology plays in the 21st century classroom, the School established a technology curriculum guide to set the standards for tech skills and integration at each grade level. The Meadows School has also embraced the opportunity to infuse elements of learning into its curriculum
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