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unusual facts about Caesars



Bluesfest International Windsor

It takes place outdoors at the Riverfront Festival Plaza on the banks of the Detroit River, in front of Caesars Windsor and opposite Motown.

Detroit Auto Kings

Continuing the Caesars tradition of former Detroit Tigers turning to play professional softball, the Auto Kings featured former Detroit Tigers outfielder Mickey Stanley.

IPod advertising

The TV commercial (featuring Caesars song Jerk It Out) for the first version of the iPod shuffle used a green background with black arrows moving in the background representing the "shuffle" icon.

John S. Pike

Pike also was responsible for numerous network and pay television specials including Sinatra, Concert for the Americas, Diana Ross: Live in Central Park, Cher: A Celebration at Caesars Palace, John Frankenheimer's Rainmaker, Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, and Plaza Suite starring Carol Burnett.

Jones Gap State Park

From 1840 to 1848, the self-taught mountain road builder Solomon Jones (1802-1899) cut a toll road from Caesars Head, South Carolina, to Cedar Mountain, North Carolina.

Spago

Additional Spagos have opened at The Forum Shops at Caesars on the Las Vegas Strip, at Four Seasons Resort Maui (Maui, Hawaii in 2001), and as the Spago Beaver Creek in the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch in Avon, Colorado.

The Cromwell Las Vegas

Caesars announced in March 2013 that the hotel would be renovated at a cost of $185 million and converted to an outpost of the New York-based Gansevoort Hotels chain of boutique luxury hotels, with 188 rooms, a 40,000 square foot casino, and a 65,000 square foot indoor/outdoor beach club/nightclub overseen by Victor Drai.

The Twelve Caesars

Robert Graves, though most famous for his historical novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God (later dramatized by the BBC), made a widely read translation of The Twelve Caesars which was first published in Penguin Classics in 1957.


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