Las Vegas Interesting Facts

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The gold mine of America

After South Africa,repparttar state of Nevada isrepparttar 110044 largest gold producer inrepparttar 110045 world. Golden Nugget Hotel displaysrepparttar 110046 world's biggest gold nugget ever found, that weights 61 pounds.

The most famous mine owner inrepparttar 110047 history of Nevada was George Wingfield. He also owned every bank inrepparttar 110048 state. Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company, that he ran together with senator (at that time) George S. Nixon, made them both multi-millionaires.

The other "gold mine" ofrepparttar 110049 state of Nevada is gambling, since gaming activities were legalised in 1931. In 2003,repparttar 110050 gross gaming revenue in Las Vegas was $7,673,489,000.

This "gold mine" closed its doors only one time in history: on November 25th 1963, forrepparttar 110051 national mourning ofrepparttar 110052 assassinated president George Kennedy. History didn't repeat itself inrepparttar 110053 first days after September 11. In fact, Americans asked in surveys on this subject saw Las Vegas as a place to escaperepparttar 110054 tension.

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Las Vegas & The Movies

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Casino

This one, released in 1995, isrepparttar classic. It approaces "sin city"repparttar 110043 way nobody dared before. The story is based onrepparttar 110044 almost fabulous life of Frank Rosendhale (impersonated by Robert de Niro),repparttar 110045 best handicapper of all times, and his beautifull wife Gery (impersonated by Sharon Stone). Las Vegas made them rich and television made them famous.

"Casino" hitrepparttar 110046 box-offices, but Frank said director Martin Scorsese broughtrepparttar 110047 spotlights on his own chopped vision of Las Vegas; blamed him that he was not really interested to either understand casinos or be faithful torepparttar 110048 real story; thus, Frank Rosenthale would have told it differently.

The Winner

Las Vegas footage has proven a good luck charm for Francis Ford Coppola's famous nephew, Nicholas Cage. He started with Honeymoon in Vegas in 1992, grabbed an Oscar onrepparttar 110049 road with Leaving Las Vegas and made a come-back with Con Air in 1997; literally, Nick Cage forced his landing onrepparttar 110050 Hard Rock Hotel guitar...

Just another subjective list

* 1971 - Diamonds Are Forever, fromrepparttar 110051 James Bond (Sean Connery) series * 1974 - The Godfather Part II * The Rocky series (parts III and IV) included brief glimpses from Las Vegas * 1987 - Heat, 100% Las Vegas made, starring Burt Reynolds * 1988 - Rain Man, with Dustin Hoffman, action set mostly inside Caesars Palace * 1991 - Bugsy,repparttar 110052 story of Bugsy Siegel andrepparttar 110053 making ofrepparttar 110054 Flamingo. Casts Warren Beatty and Annette Bening * 1993 - Indecent Proposal. Some reviews advice to "saverepparttar 110055 money for slots" * 1995 - Heat, this time starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino,repparttar 110056 only movierepparttar 110057 two "monsters" have met * 1995 - Showgirls, mostly a movie about... girls, including many scenes at Stardust

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