Showing posts with label UNITED STATES (Nevada). Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNITED STATES (Nevada). Show all posts

February 16, 2016

2299 UNITED STATES (Nevada) - Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas


Previously known as Aladdin Resort & Casino, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino is located on the Las Vegas Strip, in the unincorporated locale of Paradise, and is owned by Caesars Entertainment Corp. Hilton Hotels operates the condo portion of the property, since 2012 known as Elara. Planet Hollywood's architecture can best be described as having a 'Hollywood hip' theme. It eschews the popular Art-Deco glamour of similarly imaged venues for a sleeker look that features plenty of glass, neon and reflective surfaces.

June 24, 2015

1689 UNITED STATES (Nevada) - Nevada map


Located between California, Arizona, Utah, Idaho and Oregon, Nevada is officially known as the "Silver State" due to the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is almost entirely within the Basin and Range Province, and is broken up by many north-south mountain ranges. Most of these ranges have endorheic valleys between them, which belies the image portrayed by the term Great Basin. Therefore, it is largely desert and semiarid. Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the  Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada lie on the western edge. The Humboldt River crosses the state from east to west across the northern part of the state.

June 10, 2015

1647 UNITED STATES (Arizona / Nevada) - Hoover Dam


Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. The dam was controversially named after President Herbert Hoover. When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with moderate government public works projects such as the Hoover Dam.

May 21, 2015

1599 UNITED STATES (Nevada) - Wild mustangs


I noted with surprise that quite a few people know that the Mustangs live in North America only by 500 years and come from domesticated horses. It's true that the wild horse (Equus ferus) existed in North America in prehistoric times, but it died out at the end of the last ice age around 10-12 thousand years ago. Thus at the beginning of the Columbian Exchange, there were no equids in the Americas at all. Horses first returned with the conquistadors, more accurate with the arrival of Cortés in 1519. The first mustangs descended from Iberian horses brought to Mexico and Florida. Some of these horses were sold, escaped or were captured by Native Americans, and rapidly spread by trade and other means throughout western North America.

January 3, 2014

0938 UNITED STATES (Nevada) - Bellagio in Las Vegas


Bellagio is a luxury hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, in Paradise (part of Las Vegas Township), built between 1996 and 1998 on the site of the demolished Dunes hotel and casino. Inspired by the Lake Como town of Bellagio in Italy, it is famed for its elegance, but also for the fountains with the same name, actually a large dancing water fountain synchronized to music. Inside Bellagio is Fiori di Como, a work by the glass sculptor Dale Chihuly, composed of over 2,000 hand-blown glass flowers, which covers 190 square metres of the lobby ceiling.