The Aladdin was an Arabian Nights theme hotel and casino located at 3667 Las Vegas Boulevard South on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. The hotel had 2,600 rooms, a performing arts theatre, and a 475,000 ft² (44,000 m²) shopping arcade called the Desert Passage. The Aladdin was originally opened in 1963 as the Tally-Ho. [...]
Southern Paiutes of the Moapa – Las Vegas Paiutes wearing traditional Paiute basket hats with Paiute cradleboard and rabbit robe. Founding Las Vegas was given its name by Spaniards in the Antonio Armijo party, who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Old Spanish Trail from Texas. In the [...]
Motto: Omnia Pro Patria (Latin), in English: All for our Country Established: 1957 Type: Public Endowment: $114 million President: Neal J. Smatresk Provost: Michael Bowers Academic staff: 1,000 Admin. staff: 3,282 Students: 29,069 (Fall 2009) Undergraduates: 22,708 (Fall 2009) Postgraduates 6,378 (Fall 2009) Location: Paradise, Nevada, United States Coordinates: 36°06′28″N 115°08′38″W / 36.10779°N 115.14376°W / [...]
Summerlin is a 23,400 acre (94.6 km²) planned community being built by The Howard Hughes Corporation in southern Nevada, along the western rim of the Las Vegas Valley near the Spring Mountains and Red Rock National Conservation Area. It includes a variety of land uses, inlcuding: residential, commercial, recreational, educational, medical, open space, and religious. [...]
