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unusual facts about Lansky


Lansky

Lanskaya electric substation, an electric substation of Lanskaya railway station


A Return to Normalcy

Rothstein is about to leave for Scotland to escape an indictment for fixing the 1919 World Series when Luciano and Lansky suggest setting up a meeting with Nucky to end their war.

Colony Sports Club

Following the end of syndicate gambling operations in Havana by the Castro government in 1959, Lansky sought to expand his operations elsewhere.

Egon Lánský

Egon Lánský was born as Egon Löwy on 23 July 1934 in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), the son of Jewish doctors.

Hotel Habana Riviera

Lansky's investment partners included some of Las Vegas's biggest power brokers, among them his old friends Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman, Sam Tucker, and Wilbur Clark of the Desert Inn (and of Lansky's Hotel Nacional casino); Edward Levinson of the Fremont Hotel; and Hyman Abrams and Morris Rosen of the Flamingo Las Vegas (of Bugsy Siegel fame).

As for the cabana club and pool area, the seawater pool where Esther Williams once splashed, was the largest in Havana, surrounded by 75 cabanas, each of which had two dressing rooms and telephones (Lansky would reserve the largest for himself).

Jackson Douglas

He directed two Season 1 episodes of Bunheads (co-created by Amy Sherman-Palladino), episode 7 "What's Your Damage, Heather" and episode 13 "I'll Be your Meyer Lansky".

National Crime Syndicate

In his 1991 biography of Meyer Lansky, Little Man, journalist Robert Lacey argues that no National Crime Syndicate ever existed.

Oriental Park Racetrack

Lacey, Robert Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life (1993) Random House ISBN 978-0-517-10536-8

In his book Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life, author Robert Lacey wrote that in 1937, gangster Meyer Lansky gained control of the racetrack and casino.

Origin of Love

The video received very positive reviews from Sam Lansky, of Idolator and Perez Hilton.

Paul Lansky

Lansky has written an essay about Radiohead that appears in The Music and Art of Radiohead and he has written a short note online inviting listeners to identify where the sample is taken from in the original piece.

Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York) is an American electronic-music or computer-music composer who has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day.

The Radiohead song "Idioteque", from its 2000 album Kid A, features a prominent sample from Lansky's computer tape piece "Mild und Leise" (1973).


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