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Hopefully
there will be something somewhere on this page you didn't
already know, and that you find interesting...
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Berlin Wall
In downtown Las Vegas inside
Main Street Station casino
there's an actual wall made from a sizable chunk of the original
Berlin Wall, still covered with original graffiti....and it's
in the Men's room supporting the urinals! Yes, you can "pee
on" the Berlin Wall (if male):
See more pictures
(at urinal.net)
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How to
Pronounce NEVADA
Not sure if this is actually a "lesser known" fact but I
believe a majority of Americans do mispronounce "Nevada." Most
people (not from Nevada) say it with the middle syllable as
"ah" whereas in the correct pronunciation the middle
syllable rhymes with the "a" in gamble... I
myself, growing up in
SC, mostly heard it wrong and
therefore said it wrong. Then, being frequently in Vegas I
eventually noticed the local newscasters saying it correctly (initially foreign to my ears). I
then realized probably most of
America has it wrong.
President Bush Mispronounces Nevada
(local newspaper
article published after Bush's visit)
There was some
"toMAYto/toMAHto" hoopla after the above article came
out, but I must side with actual Nevadans on what is actually
"correct"... After all, in
South Carolina we have
Beaufort, Chapin, and Edisto, which South Carolinians know
how to pronounce correctly—regardless
of what an outsider might say/think.
Side
Note (SC-Related)
Chapin = CHAY'pin (not CHAP'in)
Edisto = ED'is-toe (not ed-DISS'toe)
Beaufort = BYOO'fort (not BO'fort)*
(*I know "Beaufort" is pronounced the other way in
North Carolina... That's correct for them, but our way
is correct for South Carolina.)
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Largest Hotels in the World!
Eight of the
ten largest hotels in the world are in Las Vegas
on the Strip!
Currently the largest hotel in the world is in Thailand (the
Ambassador City Jomtien)
but the next seven largest are ALL in Vegas! They are:
2nd largest in world:
MGM Grand
(Las Vegas) - 5005 rooms
3rd largest in world:
Luxor
(Las Vegas) - 4408 rooms
4th largest in world:
Mandalay Bay
(Las Vegas) - 4341 rooms
5th largest in world:
Venetian
(Las Vegas) - 4049 rooms
6th largest in world:
Excalibur
(Las Vegas) - 4008 rooms
7th largest in world:
Circus Circus
(Las Vegas) - 3774 rooms
8th largest in world:
Flamingo
(Las Vegas) - 3565 rooms
(9th
largest in world: Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, HI - 3386
rooms)
10th largest in world:
Mirage
(Las Vegas) - 3049 rooms
(Source - click here)
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more to
come - page still in progress
back to
Paul's
Vegas Page
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