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40 unusual facts about Paradise


1972 in organized crime

St. Louis, Missouri, Mafia boss Tony Giordano is convicted of illegally skimming gambling proceeds from Aladdin Hotel & Casino in Paradise, Nevada with the Emprise Corporation, a legal news wire service, with Underboss and Boss of the Detroit Mafia, Michael "Big Mike" Polizzi and Anthony "Tony Z" Zerilli.

Arthur J. Burks

Burks moved to Paradise in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1948, where he continued to write until his death in 1974.

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla

Though Paradise has been found, for the time being, the duo soon discovers that a mad scientist named Dr. Zabor (Bela Lugosi), lives on the other side of the island.

Bella Sara

Other Bella Sara licensed products include: Bees and Jam sleepwear and intimate apparel, Jakks Pacific toy varieties, CodeMasters DS & PC game, Paradise Kids Pose-able Horses, Simply Fun Treasure Trot, HarperCollins Stories and Activity Books, MasterPieces Activities, Trends International Posters, Ultra Pro portfolios, and other international product lines.

Bevan Spencer von Einem

Police also searched his home in the northern Adelaide suburb of Paradise, and seized a bottle of Mandrax.

Blue Bird-of-paradise

Regarded by some ornithologists as the loveliest of all birds, the Blue Bird-of-paradise was discovered by Carl Hunstein in 1884.

Chocolate fountain

The Jean-Philippe Patisserie at the Bellagio Casino in Paradise, Nevada is home to the world's tallest chocolate fountain.

Donna Butterworth

Donna Butterworth (born February 23, 1956) is an American motion picture performer who acted in The Family Jewels with Jerry Lewis and Paradise, Hawaiian Style with Elvis Presley, as well as a television movie, A Boy Called Nuthin' with Ron Howard.

Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza

The program was hosted by Drew Carey from CBS's The Price Is Right and former host of ABC's Whose Line Is It Anyway? and was produced at the Hollywood Theatre at the MGM Grand in Paradise, Nevada.

Earl Wilson Stadium

Earl E. Wilson Baseball Stadium at Roger Barnson Field is a baseball stadium located on the northwest corner of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus in Paradise, Nevada.

Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!

The concert scenes for the finale and Eddie's big return onstage were filmed on April 24, 1989 in Las Vegas Paradise, Nevada at the Thomas & Mack Center

Eloy d'Amerval

In addition to listing musical instruments, he lists who he considers to be the great composers of the time: they are residents of Paradise in his poem, even though several were still alive in 1508, the date of its composition.

Flathead River

At the Jocko River confluence it turns west, and a few miles after flows into the Clark Fork near Paradise.

Frozen Fury

Frozen Fury is an annual pre-season ice hockey game between the Los Angeles Kings and the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL), held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Paradise, Nevada, first played in 1997.

George Swinburne

Swinburne was born at Paradise, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, son of Mark William Swinburne, and his wife Jane née Coates.

Greater Bird-of-paradise

A small population was introduced by Sir William Ingram in 1909-1912 to Little Tobago Island of West Indies in an attempt to save the species from extinction due to overhunting for plume trades.

Hanauma Bay

Hawaii-themed films and television shows, including Blue Hawaii, Paradise, Hawaiian Style, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Hawaii Five-O, and Magnum, P.I., shot footage at the bay.

Hex sign

Jacob Zook of Paradise, Pennsylvania claimed to have originated the modern mountable sign in 1942, based on traditional designs, to be sold in souvenir gift shops to tourists along the Lincoln Highway.

James Murren

James J. Murren (Jim) is Chairman and CEO of MGM Resorts International, headquartered in Paradise, Nevada.

Jitka Válková

Válková, 18, became one of the youngest contestants to place in the Top 15 and competed in the swimsuit round during the finals of Miss Universe 2010, held August 23, 2010 in Paradise, Nevada.

Lesser Bird-of-paradise

It resembles the larger Greater Bird-of-paradise, but the male of that species has a dark chest, whereas the female is entirely brown (no whitish underparts).

Live at The Venetian – Las Vegas

The 10-track album is a compilation of various live recordings of the group's performances at The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino's Blue Man Theater on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, where the group has been performing since October 2005.

Malika Ménard

As the official representative of her country to the 2010 Miss Universe pageant broadcast live from Paradise, Nevada on 23 August 2010, Ménard placed as one of the Top 15 semifinalists of the competition won by Ximena Navarrete of Mexico.

Matthew Glaetzer

From the Adelaide suburb of Paradise, and a Christian, he won the 2012 World Championship in the team sprint with Scott Sunderland and Shane Perkins.

Oleksandra Nikolayenko

She also designed the "Oleksandra Spa & Salon" at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Paradise, which is owned by her husband.

Paradise-crow

The other two subspecies include Lycocorax pyrrhopterus morotensis found on the islands of Morotai and Rau and Lycocorax pyrrhopterus obiensis found on the islands of Obi and Bisa.

Paradise, Arizona

A fictional town named Paradise in Arizona is the main setting of the video game Postal 2.

Paradise, California

Actress Carla Gugino lived in Paradise after a kidney operation when she was four years old.

Jack Yerman 1960 Olympic Gold runner in 1600 meter relay lives in Paradise.

Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador

On September 29, 2009, Newfoundland and Labrador held municipal elections in its municipalities.

Paradise, Pennsylvania

Paradise, like Intercourse, is a popular site in Pennsylvania Dutch Country for tourists who like the name of the town; they are together often named in lists of "delightfully named towns" in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Blue Ball, Lititz, Bareville, Bird-in-Hand, and Mount Joy.

Paradise, South Australia

The suburb, originally "Shepley", was named "Paradise" by Joseph Ind, who had an orange orchard on the banks of the nearby Torrens River, and was named for his "Paradise Bridge Hotel" after a property called Paradise near his native Tetbury.

Paradise: Faith

The film has been named as a favourite of director John Waters, who presented the film as his annual pick within the Maryland Film Festival 2013.

Pequea Valley School District

Paradise Elementary School in Paradise, Pennsylvania is a "Feeder School", which means it contains only grades below 3rd grade, and does not get tested for AYP.

Red Bird-of-paradise

This species shares its home with another bird-of-paradise, the Wilson's Bird-of-paradise.

The Audibles

The 2x Grammy nominated duo, Dominic “DJ MECCA” Jordan and Jimmy “Jimmy G” Giannos, met in 2007 at the “Lost in Love” music video shoot for Polow Da Don artists I-15 at the Palms Casino in Paradise, Nevada.

Theatre, Etc.

After originally putting on children's theater productions at Theatre on the Ridge, a theater in nearby Paradise, California, the owners bought a former church in Chico and transformed it in the summer of 2006 into a playhouse complete with a performance area, music room, dance room, kitchen, and an indoor activity room for young children.

Wilson's Bird-of-paradise

The controversial scientific name of this species was given by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon's nephew and a republican idealist, who described the bird from a badly damaged trade specimen purchased by British ornithologist Edward Wilson.

The first footage of the Wilson's Bird-of-paradise ever to be filmed was recorded in 1996 by David Attenborough for the BBC documentary Attenborough in Paradise.

XBIZ

The event is held at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada.


11/30/93 – Las Vegas, Nevada

The show, which took place on November 30, 1993 at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Paradise, Nevada, is from the first leg of the band's tour for its second album, Vs., but also features some material off of the band's third album, Vitalogy, including the live premiere of "Tremor Christ".

2009 Ms. Olympia

is an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition and part of Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 2009 was held on September 25, 2009, at the South Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center in Winchester, Nevada and in the Orleans Arena at The Orleans Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada.

Alles wird gut

The fact, that pieces of Berlin Wall (torn down in 1989) became popular souvenirs is referenced in the line "Mit einem Stein in der Hand als Souvenir von der Mauer in Berlin/Klopfen wir an die Hintertür vom neuen Paradies" (With a stone in the hand as a souvenir from the wall in Berlin/We're knocking on the backdoor of the new paradise).

Amba Geshen

Another inaccurate account of Amba Geshen, called Mount Amara, was published in Purchas, His Pilgrimage, which Pakenham believes inspired John Milton's description of Paradise that appeared in Paradise Lost.

Annobón Paradise Flycatcher

Some authorities, notably the African Bird Club treat Annobón Paradise Flycatcher as a subspecies of Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher T.

Apple Bottoms

The term is also used in the songs "Tip Drill" and "Paradise" by Nelly, in the Eminem single, "Shake That" and in "Lee Majors Come Again" by the Beastie Boys.

Arthur John Butler

A prose translation of Purgatory, with notes, was published in 1880, followed by Paradise (1885) and Hell (1892), then a translation of Scartazzini's Companion to Dante (1893), and Dante: his Times and his Work (1895).

Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise

Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise is an autobiographical true crime book by Dave Holloway about his experiences searching for his missing daughter Natalee Holloway, co-written with R. Stephanie Good and Larry Garrison.

Benjamin Ivry

Ivry is author of biographies of Francis Poulenc, Arthur Rimbaud, and Maurice Ravel, as well as a poetry collection, Paradise for the Portuguese Queen.

Carolyn Forché

Among her translations are Mahmoud Darwish's Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (2003), Claribel Alegría's Sorrow (1999), and Robert Desnos's Selected Poetry (with William Kulik, for the Modern English Poetry Series, 1991).

Casa Monica Hotel

David Nolan, Fifty Feet in Paradise: The Booming of Florida (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984).

Chelsea Flower Show

2009 James May's Paradise in Plasticine, a garden made entirely of Plasticine.

David Dusa

He is also developing a TV-series, Paradise Institute, in collaboration with Mike Sens, and works as a playwright for Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus, on the creation of his next show, Radical Wrong.

Dora Gerson

In 1920, Gerson was cast to appear in the successful film adaptation of the Karl May penned novel Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses (On the Brink of Paradise) and later followed that same year in another May adaptation entitled Die Todeskarawane (Caravan of Death).

Earthsearch II

When rejected by the suspicious humans, the Angels resort to sabotage on a planetary scale, using terraforming equipment from the Challenger to melt Paradise's polar ice caps and thus raise the sea level in an attempt to get their former crew to rejoin them on the ship.

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

Jesse Stone still misses the Paradise, Massachusetts police chief position, which he lost because the current town council president, Carter Hansen (Jeremy Akerman), wanted his son-in-law, William Butler (Jeff Geddis), to have the job.

Johnny and the Bomb

He goes back to his town, Blackbury, during the time of The Blitz with his friends Stephen, aka Wobbler, Bigmac, Kirsty and Yo-less (possibly because Johnny has been obsessing about the destruction of Paradise Street in a German raid).

Kaci Battaglia

After being turned down by over 20 record labels with his demo, "Paradise", for her, it was Mike Curb who called Diamond months after receiving the recording and told him that he wanted to sign Battaglia to Curb Records.

Keith Varon

An independent soft rock musician, several of his songs have been selected to appear on different TV shows, such as MTV's Laguna Beach and its spin-off The Hills as well as Next, ABC's What About Brian and Paradise City on E!.

Land of Toys

This version of Pleasure Island appears in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance in Pinocchio's homeworld, Prankster's Paradise.

Las Ramblas Resort

The Las Ramblas Resort was a proposed hotel, resort, and casino project in Paradise, Nevada by George Clooney and Rande Gerber (husband of Cindy Crawford), and designed by Arquitectonica.

Lifeboat Associates

In May 1995, Voyager Software Corp. changed its name to "Programmers Paradise, Inc." and consolidated its U.S. catalog and software publishing operations in a new subsidiary, Programmers Paradise Catalogs, Inc. and its wholesale distribution operations in a new subsidiary, Lifeboat Distribution, Inc.

Major Records

Also, pop trio X-Perience from Berlin, who had some hits during the 90s, joined Major Records for their comeback album Lost in Paradise, including a duet with Midge Ure called Personal Heaven.

Michelle Paradise

Paradise wrote, produced and starred in the short film The Ten Rules: The Lesbian Survival Guide, which debuted in 2002 and subsequently played at gay and lesbian film festivals, both in the United States and in Europe (specifically Copenhagen, Paris and Reykjavík).

Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye railway

The line continues higher to the small village of Caux passing through Alpine meadows which, in the Springtime, are full of wild growing narcissus, forget-me-nots and others, before reaching its upper terminus at Rochers-de-Naye, the home of the Marmot Paradise, a centre where seven varieties of these small mammals can be seen in a natural environment.

North–South All-American Game

The North–South All-American Game (formerly known as the Las Vegas All-American Classic and the Paradise Bowl) is an annual post-season college football all-star game that was played each January or February from 2002 (for the 2001 season) to 2006 (for the 2005 season), and then took 2 years off due to lack of sponsorship.

Ocean Paradise Diamond

The Ocean Paradise is the second and one of the only natural diamonds known to the GIA to possess a blue-green hue (the first being the Ocean Dream Diamond owned by the Cora Diamond Corp., found in Central Africa), making it one of the rarest diamonds in the world.

Paradise and the Peri

The peri, a creature from Persian mythology, is the focus of the story, having been expelled from Paradise and trying to regain entrance by giving the gift that is most dear to heaven.

Rory McCann

Since then, McCann has taken television roles as Detective Inspector Stuart Brown in State of Play, as Peter the Great in Peter in Paradise and appeared as a priest in the award-winning British comedy drama television series Shameless.

Rothmans International Series

Future (1983) 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Vern Schuppan, driving for Theodore Racing, won the 1976 Rothmans International Series in a Lola T332-Chevrolet with the final round at Surfers Paradise being washed out.

Run to Paradise

The song returned to the Australian singles charts in Australia in July 2004 when dance producer Nick Skitz asked Gable to sing "Run to Paradise" on a dance reworking.

Sal Paradise

The first song "Stuck Between Stations" by The Hold Steady on the album Boys and Girls in America starts with the lyric, "There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America, they have such a sad time together."

The English band The Crookes wrote a song called Sal Paradise, which appears in their second album "Hold Fast" (2012).

Stipo a bambocci

One some surviving examples the Bambocci-figures correspond with each other and are composed in a certain iconographical context, such as the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Paradise on one Stipo a Bambocci in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.

Telecommunications in Seychelles

In June 2008 a new Internet cafe opened on Praslin, set up in the district administration office at Baie Ste Anne, under the sponsorship of the Jj Spirit Foundation, the Lions Club of Paradise Seychelles and Cable & Wireless.

The Good Rats

During the following years, the Rats performed at venues such as Madison Square Garden, The Philadelphia Spectrum, The Nassau Coliseum, The Hammersmith Odeon in England, and New York’s Central Park, as well as showcase rooms such as The Bottom Line (Manhattan), My Father’s Place (Roslyn, New York), Whiskey a Go Go (Los Angeles) and The Paradise Room (Boston).

The Scope

Each month 23,000 copies are distributed across the St. John's metropolitan area (including Torbay, Mount Pearl, CBS, Paradise, and Portugal Cove-St. Philips).

The Soviet Paradise

The Soviet Paradise (German original title "Sowjetparadies") was the name of an exhibition and a propaganda film, which was organized by the Reichspropagandaleitung of the NSDAP and was displayed from May 8 to June 21, 1942 in the Lustgarten in Berlin.

Theatre Passe Muraille

Other notable productions produced at Passe Muraille include O.D. on Paradise and Maggie and Pierre by Linda Griffiths; Fire by David Young and Paul Ledoux; The Stone Angel, James Nichol's adaptation of the novel by Margaret Laurence; Judith Thompson's The Crackwalker; and Lilies by Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.

Third Heaven

In the Second Book of Enoch, Third Heaven is described as a location "between corruptibility and incorruptibility" containing the Tree of Life, "whereon the Lord rests, when he goes up into paradise." (chapter 8) Two springs in the Third Heaven, one of milk and the other of honey, along with two others of wine and oil, flow down into the Garden of Eden.

In contrast with the common concept of Paradise, the Second Book of Enoch also describes a Third Heaven, "a very terrible place" with "all manner of tortures" in which merciless angels torment "those who dishonour God, who on earth practice sin against nature," including sodomites, sorcerers, enchanters, witches, the proud, thieves, liars and those guilty of various other transgressions.

When We Die As Martyrs

According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), a data-gathering center on radical Islamist groups, The Birds of Paradise is becoming one of the most popular children's choirs in the Arab world.

Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled

In a scene where the Djinn shows Lisa an illusion of paradise, they are standing on a pond in Assiniboine Park, a notable locale for the city.