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    Shrimp consumption in Las Vegas is more than 60,000 pounds a day -- higher than the rest of the United States combined; it would take 288 years for one person to spend one night in every hotel room in Las Vegas; about 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day; to drive from Los Angeles, California to Reno, Nevada the direction traveled is northwest; Samuel Clemens took the penname "Mark Twain" while a reporter working for the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada in 1862; the longest running show in Las Vegas is the Folies Bergere at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino -- it opened in 1959.

     

August 1, 2008 - In Business Las Vegas: New wave of resorts may not jump-start LV economy PDF Print E-mail
in_business.jpgRICHARD N. VELOTTA, IN BUSINESS LAS VEGAS (8/01/2008)-- The opening of the next wave of Las Vegas casinos may not produce the lift necessary to pull Southern Nevada out of its economic doldrums, a noted educator says.

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