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Las Vegas is the largest metro area in the US without passenger rail service. In 2005 DesertXpress Enterprises LLC was formed in an attempt to restore passenger rail service to Las Vegas Valley, though their terminal is planned to be a newly constructed station in Enterprise, south of Downtown Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Strip. [6]
Las Vegas, [a] often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-largest in the Southwestern United States.
The Plaza Hotel & Casino is a hotel and casino located in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.It currently has 995 rooms and suites, an 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m 2) casino and more than 25,000 square feet (2,300 m 2) of event space.
Nevada Day is a legal holiday in the state of Nevada in the United States. It commemorates the state's October 31, 1864 admission to the Union. The first known observance of Nevada Day (originally known as Admission Day) was by the Pacific Coast Pioneer society during the 1870s. The Nevada Legislature established it as a state holiday in 1933 ...
A number of ATM networks are operated in Australia, the largest are: Commonwealth Bank / Bankwest network with 3,400 machines, Westpac / St George Bank / BankSA / Bank of Melbourne with 2,800 machines, ANZ with 2,300 machines, the rediATM network with 1,800 machines, and National Australia Bank with 900 machines, [1] The ATMs of CommBank, Westpac, ANZ, NAB and others are free to use.
1890 – Sequoia National Park (pictured) was established to conserve giant sequoia trees in an area affected by logging in the southern Sierra Nevada in California. 1983 – In one of the largest prison escapes in British history , 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a meals lorry and broke out of HM Prison Maze in County ...
DEF CON (also written as DEFCON, Defcon or DC) is a hacker convention held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada.The first DEF CON took place in June 1993 and today many attendees at DEF CON include computer security professionals, journalists, lawyers, federal government employees, security researchers, students, and hackers with a general interest in software, computer architecture, hardware ...
Elmer "Al" Bramlet (February 18, 1917 – February 1977) was a labor union leader. He was the secretary-treasurer of Las Vegas Culinary Workers Local 226 and President of the Nevada AFL–CIO. Bramlet was one of the most powerful figures in Nevada, as he was able to shut down the Las Vegas tourism business through the use of labor strikes. He ...