The city of Las Vegas was founded on this date in 1905. Here are 10 facts about Sin City:
The name “Las Vegas” means “the meadows”, because there were underground artesian wells and Green fields there.
Las Vegas is also known as Sin City, the City of Lights, the Gambling Capital of the World and the Marriage Capital of the World. There are an average of 315 weddings here every day.
The City of Lights is an appropriate name as Las Vegas is considered the brightest spot on Earth, with over 15,000 miles of neon tubing within the city, and the Luxor Light Beam, which is possibly the brightest beam on Earth, said to be visible from 100 miles away.
Record breaking things you’ll find here include the Stratosphere, the tallest observation tower in the United States at 1,149 feet; the High Roller, which holds the record for being the tallest observation wheel on the planet at 550 feet; the largest bronze sculpture in the western hemisphere, the 50 ton bronze Lion outside the MGM Grand Hotel; and the world's largest mechanical Neon sign, Vegas Vic.
There’s also a half scale model of the Eiffel Tower, which was meant to be full size, but had to be scaled back due to its proximity to the airport. The Luxor Las Vegas’ Sphinx, however, is actually larger than the original Great Sphinx of Giza.
The Las Vegas Strip is 4.2 miles long, but isn’t actually in Las Vegas at all. The strip falls outside of the city limits.
While Vegas was the gambling capital of the world, it lost the title to Macau in 2007, with the Chinese gambling centre exceeding Vegas’s gambling revenue each year. Despite the fact that none of the casinos in Vegas have Clocks or Windows, a deliberate measure to make sure customers lose track of time. The first casino to be built on the ‘strip’ was El Rancho Vegas which opened on 3rd April 1941. The casino was destroyed in a fire after almost 20 years in 1960. Strangely, however, lotteries are illegal in the state of Nevada.
Las Vegas is home to more than half of the 20 largest hotels in the world. It would take a person 288 years to spend a night in every hotel room in the city. The oldest hotel is the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino which opened in 1906 as Hotel Nevada. The Venetian Las Vegas and the Palazzo is the second largest hotel in the world after the Izmailovo Hotel in Moscow. These two Vegas hotels operating as one combined have 7,017 rooms, 36 floors at the Venetian and 53 floors at the Palazzo.
The city is served by McCarran International Airport, the seventh busiest airport in the US. 22 million passengers pass through it each year; but like the Strip, the airport is not in Las Vegas. It is located in Paradise, Nevada.
There are miles of tunnels underneath the city, originally built to protect the desert town from flash floods, but today they are home to hundreds of homeless people.
Character birthday
Titus Kingston-Parker, super rich oil baron, one of the so called “Big Six” richest people in the UK. His eldest son is Jasper, aka Obsidian, the super villain, whose greed and bad behaviour caused Titus to disinherit him, and Lionel, whose daughter is Fiona, who became the superheroine Ivory. Because of Jasper’s misuse of his powers, Titus was turned against genetic variants in general, and refused to enter the contest proposed by another Big Six member, to form a league of “Combat Teams”, which would be dependent on the use of variant abilities.
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