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September 2008: Las Vegas Sands' stock plummeted to $36.11, prompting Adelson and his wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, to invest $475 million in the company through a 6.5% convertible note in 2013. November 2008: The Adelson family again invested $525 million in Las Vegas Sands, with the company raising an additional $1 billion in a secondary offering.
The Sands Expo, located behind the hotel, [5] opened on November 9, 1990. The COMDEX computer trade show was the first event held in the space. [6] [7] At its launch, it was the only privately owned and operated convention center in the United States, and was the second largest convention center in the world. [citation needed]
In the early 1990s, Adelson built the Sands Expo, a 1-million-square-foot (93,000 m 2) convention centre. [2] The Sands in 1995. In its final years, the Sands became a shadow of its former self—a throwback to the old days—and it ultimately could not compete with the newer and more exciting mega-resorts that were being built on the Strip.
A 150,000 sq ft (14,000 m 2) expansion of the Congress Center and Sands Expo brought the resort's total meeting space to 1.9-million sq ft (180,000 m 2). The expansion cost $45 million and was finished in 2003. [57] [143] [202] The Venetian helped popularize Las Vegas as a convention city, particularly thanks to its Sands Expo. [201]
English: Sands Space History Center, outside gate 1 (the south gate) at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. Open to the public six days a week and free of charge.
The Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum (formerly the Air Force Space and Missile Museum) is located at Launch Complex 26 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.It includes artifacts from the early American space program and includes an outdoor area displaying rockets, missiles, and space-related equipment chronicling the space and missile history of the US Air Force, the US Space Force ...
Second Sudanese Civil War: 1–2 million [61] [62] 1983–2005 Sudan vs. SSPDF: Sudan Tây Sơn wars: 1–2 million [63] [64] 1771–1802 Tây Sơn dynasty vs. Nguyễn lords, Kingdom of Cambodia, Rattanakosin Kingdom, and Kingdom of France: Indochina Akbar's Conquest of North India: 1–2 million [65] 1556–1605 Mughal Empire vs. North Indian ...
Radiometric dating of these rocks shows that the Moon is 4.53 ± 0.01 billion years old, [46] formed at least 30 million years after the Solar System. [47] New evidence suggests the Moon formed even later, 4.48 ± 0.02 Ga, or 70–110 million years after the start of the Solar System.