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Las Vegas celebrated its centennial in May 2005, with various concerts and events, [119] [120] [121] including a revival of the Helldorado Days festival. [14] Red Rock Resort, developed by Station Casinos, opened in Summerlin in 2006. [122] The resort was among the early components of Downtown Summerlin, a mixed-use project on 400 acres (160 ha ...
Etymology: from Spanish las vegas 'the meadows' ... Las Vegas, [a] colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the ...
Chronicling Armijo's route his scout Raphael Rivera was the first to name Las Vegas, in an 1830 report to governor José Antonio Chaves. Following the suggestions by Rivera of a spring, on the published expedition's map, located in the Las Vegas area John C. Frémont set up camp in Las Vegas Springs in 1844.
Stigma Cities: The Reputation and History of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018). Moehring, Eugene P. Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930–2000 (2000). Moehring, Eugene, "The Urban Impact: Towns and Cities in Nevada's History," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 57 (2014): 177–200.
[105] [106] The etymology of the town's name is disputed, but agreed to be ultimately Old English. West Virginia: September 1, 1831: Latin: Virginia: The western, transmontane counties of Virginia, which separated from Virginia during the American Civil War. See Virginia, above. Wisconsin: February 5, 1822: Miami-Illinois via French
Do you tend to masseuse (er, misuse) your words in humorous ways? You've made a malapropism—and everyone from politicians to famous literature characters is guilty of errors like these. The post ...
It's a name of Hebrew origin and is commonly thought to be a feminization of the name Samuel. In the 1990s, it was one of the top 10 names for girls, peaking in 1998 at number 3.
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