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Edward Parry Thomas (June 29, 1921 – August 26, 2016) was an American banker who helped finance the development of the casino industry of Las Vegas, Nevada.Along with his business partner, Jerome D. Mack, he is credited with building Las Vegas into what it is today.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Pure Night Club, Las Vegas Nevada (at Caesars Palace) 2005; River City Casino, St. Louis, Missouri 2007; Golden Nugget Resort & Casino Riverboat, Lake Charles, Louisiana 2014; Snoqualmie Casino, Snoqualmie, Washington 2009; Gilley's Saloon, Dance Hall & BBQ at Treasure Island, Las Vegas, Nevada 2010; Gaudin Porsche Jaguar, Las Vegas, Nevada 2002
He was the founder of Valley Broadcasting Company in 1971 and served as the company's chief executive officer from 1979 to 2014 on KVBC-TV (now KSNV), the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas. The station went on the air as KLRJ-TV on channel 2 on January 23, 1955, licensed to Henderson and owned by the Donrey Media Group (now Stephens Media LLC) along ...
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is a daily subscription newspaper published in Las Vegas, Nevada, since 1909. It is the largest circulating daily newspaper in Nevada and one of two daily newspapers in the Las Vegas area. The Review-Journal has a joint operating agreement with The Greenspun Corporation-owned Las Vegas Sun, which runs
In 1967, Wynn and his family moved to Las Vegas where he purchased a small stake in the Frontier Hotel and Casino. [13] That year he met E. Parry Thomas, the president of the Bank of Las Vegas, which was the only bank at the time willing to extend loans to Las Vegas casinos, [13] and Thomas helped finance several of Wynn's early land deals. [13]
On June 8, 2014, the Millers first went to a CiCi's Pizza restaurant on foot at 11:22 a.m., [1] finding Las Vegas police officers Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck, who were eating at the restaurant on their lunch break. Prior to the shooting, Jerad had entered the restaurant, observed the area, and then left and returned with Amanda.
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2014. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.