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19 unusual facts about Las Vegas


2012 NSCRO Men's Division III Rugby Tournament

Region 4 claims to have 31 rugby programs, however, at least four appear to be large state universities with well developed rugby programs (e.g., University of Nevada, Las Vegas which has 28,000 undergraduates - approximately 26,000 more students than Salve Regina or Franciscan).

Antonio Morelli

Often the festivities would carry over after hours to Morrelli's home in Las Vegas, nicknamed "The Morelli House, which was eventually relocated and sanctioned an historical landmark by the State of Nevada.

Boyd Gaming

Boyd Gaming embarked on its first expansion in 1979, when it opened Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall on Boulder Highway at Nellis Boulevard.

Charles Cyrus Kearns

He was the managing editor of the Las Vegas Daily Record in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in 1900 and 1901 and of the Daily Record in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1901 and 1902.

Churchill Investments Group

Churchill Investments Group currently has offices around the world including; Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, Omaha, Nebraska and Hong Kong.

Country-Folk

The liner notes state that they were familiar to other musicians in the Las Vegas area.

Darby O'Gill

Darby O'Gill operates in Portland, Oregon, while Darby O'Gill and the Little People center their performances in Las Vegas.

Jarella

Many years afterwards, during a Fantastic Four storyline featuring a delirious Hulk rampaging through Las Vegas, the latter howled Jarella's name, as one of the 3 greatest tragedies that he considered to have befallen him, along with the poisoning of his wife Betty Ross, and the death of his friend Jim Wilson due to AIDS.

Johnny Lockwood

Lockwood spent a year with television series Sunnyside Up, went to the US to perform in Las Vegas, returned to Australia for a two-year run with classic comedy series The Mavis Bramston Show, and then played the lead role in Canterbury Tales.

Joseph Cyril Bamford

Bamford also conceived the "dancing diggers," whose 1999 display in Las Vegas stopped the gamblers.

Minerva Reefs

The architect was Las Vegas real estate millionaire and political activist Michael Oliver, who went on to other similar attempts in the following decade.

Mmm, Mmm, Mmm,

Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, is the 1997 debut of the Las Vegas soul music band Home Cookin', featuring fourteen tracks.

Nokia N76

It was introduced at the Las Vegas CES 2007 in January 2007 and was launched on 5 May 2007 with a sales price of 390 EUR.

Palmdale Transportation Center

It may also be a future station of the planned Desert Xpress high-speed rail line to Las Vegas upon completion of the California High-Speed Rail line.

Parque del Retiro

At this time the park was locally known as Las Vegas, "for its popular open-air kiosks with 12 game tables".

Razi High School

Also a former Golden Gloves Champion with the United States Amateur Boxing Federation Las Vegas

Someday We'll Be Together

"Someday We'll Be Together" was the final number at Diana Ross & the Supremes' farewell concert on January 14, 1970 at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.

Terri Rogers

Her cabaret career eventually extended internationally including appearances at Las Vegas and The Magic Castle in Hollywood, and on United States TV.

The Alice Cooper Show

It was recorded live in Las Vegas at the Aladdin Hotel on August 19 and 20, 1977, during Cooper's "King Of The Silver Screen" United States tour.


1954 AAA Championship Car season

The 1954 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 13 races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 14.

2003–04 Montreal Canadiens season

The first NHL game to be played outdoors was in 1991 when the Los Angeles Kings played the New York Rangers in an exhibition game outside Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Adwoa Yamoah

Biniaz was expected to represent Canada at Miss Universe 2012 in Las Vegas but a few days before the expected arrival she hurt her foot and because of that Adwoa Yamoah, the first runner-up, got the opportunity to represent Canada while Biniaz still holds the title of Miss Universe Canada 2012.

Albuquerque Dukes

San Diego took over the Beavers/Dukes, and Los Angeles took Las Vegas, renaming the team the Las Vegas 51s for the famed alleged UFO spaceport, Area 51, near Las Vegas, Nevada.

Antonio Morales de la Peña

As vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies, he took part in the 2004 Convention of the World Association of Mexicans Abroad, held in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Bat Country

The song's main influence comes from Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the title itself also comes from a line from the book in which Raoul Duke, the alter-ego pseudonym of Thompson himself, is on his way to Las Vegas while being affected by various drugs, and thus hallucinates, seeing huge bats and manta rays in the sky.

Cruis'n Exotica

The levels take place in exotic locations in the universe, such as Las Vegas, Thailand, and even the surface of Mars.

Elise Ray

She performed for three years in Cirque du Soleil, where she was a member of the Cadre team in the Las Vegas resident show O.

Emmanuel Milingo

The others were Archbishop Peter Paul Brennan of the African Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of the Americas, who according to one website was first consecrated a bishop on June 10, 1978, and subsequently reconsecrated in October 1979 and twice more in March 1987; Archbishop Patrick E. Trujillo of the Old Catholic Church in America and Archbishop Joseph J. Gouthro of Las Vegas, presiding bishop of the Catholic Apostolic Church International (CACI).

Endurocross

It was originally held as a one-off event called EnduroCross at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Flight Angels

Lockheed Model 12A Electra Junior subbing for the "stratosphere ship." Lockheed 12A, registration number NC17342, was owned by Lang Transportation, Las Vegas, Nevada, and was also used in the 1937 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Rosalie, Happy Landing (1938) and Secret Service of the Air (1938).

Freddie Bell and the Bellboys

They were one of the first white groups to play the R&B hits of the day, and honed their act in the Midwest before landing a booking at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

Galoubet A

Galoubet ranked third on the WBFSH standings for 2000/2001, largely on the basis of his son Baloubet du Rouet who won three World Cup Final's in a row (Helsinki 1998, Gothenburg 1999, Las Vegas 2000) as well as team bronze at 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

Giles Martin

In 2006 Martin collaborated with his father to remix, rearrange, and recombine the music of The Beatles into a soundscape for Love, a theatrical production of Cirque du Soleil, which opened at The Mirage in Las Vegas.

Gina Mainwal

She had played in many bands in her hometown of Las Vegas, and was known as "Gina The Jet" on the radio station KUNV where she worked with Ken Jordan.

Irwin Molasky

Molasky built Las Vegas' first enclosed mall, the Boulevard Mall; first major hospital, Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center; first high-rise condominium, Regency Towers; the area's first master-planned community, Paradise Palms; and the first high-rise office building in Las Vegas, the 17-story Bank of America Plaza; and the state's first hospice, The Nathan Adelson Hospice.

Je lui dirai

On October 1, 2003 Céline Dion taped the 1 fille & 4 types TV special at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, where she performed this song among others.

Jim Fryatt

After retiring as a player, Fryatt served briefly as the assistant manager of the original Las Vegas Quicksilvers before settling permanently in Las Vegas where he worked at casinos before becoming a mechanic for a golf course.

Joachim Alcine

On September 15, 2012 Alcine faced Irish Brawler and two-time World Title Challenger Matthew Macklin (at the time 28-4, 19 KO's) on the HBO PPV Undercard of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Sergio Martinez for the WBC World Middleweight Title in the Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ken's Foods

Besides its headquarters in Marlborough, the company employs over 600 people in facilities located in McDonough, Georgia and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Kimball International

Kimball Hospitality has furnished over 14,000 rooms in Las Vegas's major hotels and casinos.

KLSV

KLSV-LP, a low-power television station (channel 50) licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Laura Bryna

To promote the album, Bryna broadcast the music video for the single "Make a Wish" on flat-screen monitors in the Luxor and Excalibur Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for one month.

Lauren Anderson

She starred in the variety production "Headlights and Tailpipes" in Las Vegas at the Stardust Resort & Casino.

Lyle Berman

In 1990 he was a co-founder of Grand Casinos Inc., a company that sought to create gambling establishments outside of Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

Maurice Hines

Their father joined them and "Hines, Hines & Dad" performed on a regular basis in New York, Las Vegas, and throughout Europe and on many television shows, including The Pearl Bailey Show, The Hollywood Palace, and The Tonight Show.

National Hall of Records

The National Hall of Records is an obituary service that was introduced at the National Funeral Directors Association annual convention in Las Vegas in October 2007.

Nick Dandolos

One urban legend claims that Dandolos once had the opportunity to escort Albert Einstein around Las Vegas.

Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad

Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad, billed asThe Fight Of The Millennium, was a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 18, 1999, to unify the WBC and IBF's world Welterweight championships.

Peter O'Fallon

Peter's television directing career continued with Northern Exposure, Party of Five, Profiler, Las Vegas, Prison Break, House, Ghost Whisperer, Eureka, Pushing Daisies and the series pilot American Gothic.

Poor Leno

It is used in the video game SSX 3 as well as in The Drop, a short film displayed on the canopy at the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Postmodern philosophy

Postmodern philosophy also drew from the world of the arts and architecture, particularly Marcel Duchamp, John Cage and artists who practiced collage, and the architecture of Las Vegas and the Pompidou Centre.

Quién

Its accompanying music video, directed by Simon Brand, was filmed in Las Vegas, and features Arjona singing while walking around the city's nighttime lights.

Rich Man, Poor Man Book II

Las Vegas and Aspen, playgrounds of the rich and famous and powerful, were two of the settings for the series.

Rob Guest

In 1981 he moved to the United States with his first wife, Lynette Perry, where he spent most of the 1980s performing and hosting shows in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno, Nevada and Lake Tahoe.

Robert Earl Sawyer

He starred, produced and directed his own plays as well as the plays of other writers in New York City, Miami, Washington D.C., Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Roger H. Chen

Since 1988, 99 Ranch Market chains have opened across the United States with stores located in areas such as San Gabriel, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Nevada, Seattle, Washington, and Phoenix, Arizona.

Sebastián Saavedra

He was replaced in the Conquest car by João Paulo de Oliveira for the Motegi race and Dillon Battistini at the Kentucky Speedway, but returned to the car for the season finale in Las Vegas, which was cancelled after Dan Wheldon's fatal crash.

SEMA

The largest of the SEMA events held annually during the first week of November is the SEMA Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada in conjunction with the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week.

Seth Flynn Barkan

He grew up and still currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, which has an evidently strong influence on the content and mood of his poetry.

Sex and Lies in Sin City

The film details the events surrounding the death of Las Vegas casino owner Ted Binion.

Tape trading

One notable example of how initial contact through tape trading lent to this trend is in the case of Righteous Pigs guitarist Mitch Harris who hailed from Las Vegas and Birmingham's Mick Harris, drummer with Napalm Death (not related) who would later collaborate writing and recording music, Mitch Harris would eventually relocate to the UK for this purpose.

Tasmanian Devil: Munching Madness

Players take control of Taz to eat all the food in each of the nine levels - Tasmania, Australia, China, Greece, Switzerland, Amsterdam, Amazon River, Las Vegas and Transylvania.

Toleman

Warwick also qualified only once; at the season-closing Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas.

Tout l'or des hommes

On October 1, 2003 Céline Dion taped the 1 fille & 4 types TV special at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, where she performed this song among others.

Tout près du bonheur

The music video was supposed to be shot in the Mojave Desert but because of Dion's health conditions it was directed May 8, 2006 at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas by Ivan Grbovic.

UFC 79

UFC 79: Nemesis was a mixed martial arts (MMA) event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), that took place on December 29, 2007 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.