According to the Archaeological Journal ( 1844 ), the islet ( referred to as Ben Las in the Journal ), may have been an ancient signal hill.

Archaeological evidence has been found that Las Hurdes region was inhabited in the Chalcolithic Age.

Ruins of the Warsangali Sultanate in Las Khorey.

Ruins of the Warsangali Sultanate in Las Khorey.

Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in one single county, Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas – Paradise metropolitan area, where the state's three largest incorporated cities are located.

Paradise contains McCarran International Airport, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and most of the Las Vegas Strip, including well-known hotels such as Caesars Palace, the Bellagio, and the MGM Grand.

Winchester is an unincorporated town and census-designated place ( CDP ) in Clark County, Nevada, United States that contains part of the Las Vegas Strip.

It also contains museums, businesses, restaurants, churches, art galleries and theaters, which add a great deal to the changing character of Las Cruces ' historic downtown.

Irving contains the Las Colinas area, which was one of the first master-planned developments in the United States and once the largest mixed-use development in the Southwest with a land area of more than.

Las Palmas contains the Parque Nacional Timanfaya on the island of Lanzarote.

The vast majority of Nevada's population lives in counties where all forms of prostitution are illegal, namely Clark ( which contains Las Vegas ), Washoe ( which contains Reno ), Douglas, and Lincoln counties, and Carson City ( an independent city ).

As of 2009, prostitution is illegal under state law in Clark County ( which contains Las Vegas ) and under county or municipal law in Washoe County ( which contains Reno ), Carson City ( an independent city ), Douglas County, and Lincoln County.

All forms of prostitution are illegal in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas – Paradise metropolitan area.

The first, from 1628, contains eight plays ( Los favores del mundo, La industria y la suerte, Las paredes oyen, El semejante a sí mismo, La cueva de Salamanca, Mudarse por mejorarse, Todo es ventura and El desdichado en fingir ); and the second volume from 1634 consists of twelve plays ( Los empeños de un engaño, El dueño de las estrellas, La amistad castigada, La manganilla de Melilla, Ganar amigos, La verdad sospechosa, El anticristo, El tejedor de Segovia, La prueba de las promesas, Los pechos privilegiados, La crueldad por el honor and El examen de maridos ).

Las Meninas contains the only known double portrait of the royal couple painted by Velázquez.

For Foucault, Las Meninas contains the first signs of a new episteme, or way of thinking, in European art.

The Great Basin almost entirely contains the smaller Great Basin physiographic section, which extends about into the Colorado River watershed ( including the Las Vegas metropolitan area and northwest corner of Arizona ).

Part of this southern tip of Nevada was established as Clark County in 1909 and contains the city of Las Vegas.

The game is set in the semi-fictional state of San Andreas, which contains three metropolitan cities: Los Santos, based on Los Angeles, San Fierro, based on San Francisco and Las Venturas, based on Las Vegas.

The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a basin area that contains the largest concentration of people in the state.

The main plot revolves around six teams of people who are given their task of racing 563 miles from a Las Vegas casino to a Silver City, New Mexico train station, where a storage locker contains two million dollars.

The two-level, venue contains 78 VIP tables and Noir Bar, which according to the Las Vegas Review Journal is an “ ultra-elite bar ” that is a reservations-only establishment.

The lake contains many arms including Snake Creek and Dip Creek, nearer the dam, and the central Las Tablas and Franklin Creeks.

Gmina Gródek contains the villages and settlements of Bagno, Bielewicze, Bobrowniki, Borki, Chomontowce, Downiewo, Dzierniakowo, Glejsk, Gobiaty, Gródek, Gródek-Kolonia, Grzybowce, Jakubin, Jaryłówka, Józefowo, Kołodno, Kondycja, Kozi Las, Królowe Stojło, Królowy Most, Kuberka, Łużany, Mieleszki, Mieleszki-Kolonia, Mostowlany, Narejki, Nowosiółki, Pałatki, Pieszczaniki, Piłatowszczyzna, Podozierany, Podzałuki, Przechody, Radunin, Ruda, Skroblaki, Słuczanka, Sofipol, Straszewo, Stryjenszczyzna, Świsłoczany, Waliły, Waliły-Dwór, Waliły-Stacja, Wiejki, Wierobie, Wyżary, Załuki, Zarzeczany, Zasady, Zielona, Zubki and Zubry.

Las Cruces and the Las Cruces Metropolitan Statistical Area's July 1, 2008 populations were estimated at 91, 865 and 201, 603 respectively by the United States Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program.

Hispanic Americans ( mostly Mexican Americans with large populations of Spanish Americans ) can be found in large numbers in every major city in the southwest, such as Phoenix ( 43 %), Tucson ( 41 %), Las Vegas ( 32 %), Reno ( 22 %), Denver ( 32 %), Colorado Springs ( 16 %), El Paso ( 80 %), Albuquerque ( 47 %), Provo ( 15. 2 %) and Salt Lake City ( 22 %).

Very large Hispanic American populations can also be found in the smaller cities such as, Flagstaff ( 18 %), Yuma ( 55 %), Mesa ( 27 %), Las Cruces ( 56 %), Santa Fe ( 48 %), Farmington ( 22 %), Roswell ( 51 %), Alamogordo ( 32 %), Pueblo ( 48 %), Greeley ( 35 %), Longmont ( 25 %), Brighton ( 41 %), Carson City ( 20 %), Amarillo ( 27 %), Lubbock ( 31 %), Midland ( 37 %), and Odessa ( 47 %).

The largest African American populations in the southwest can be found in Denver ( 10 %), Colorado Springs ( 7 %), Las Vegas ( 10 %), and Phoenix ( 5 %).

His work helped reverse the decrease of minority populations in Las Vegas.

Higher than average precipitation that same winter was responsible for significant damage in Mesquite and Overton which, as of that point in time, had not received much attention since their populations were so much smaller than the Las Vegas valley area.

In the valley of La Angostura and Las Meleguinas can find numerous traces of Aboriginal canaries that have prompted the declaration of the area as a Cultural, as groups of caves carved into rock, silos or sidewalks.

Some of the most prominent are the coastal town of Tufia in good condition and extensively excavated by archaeologists, four doors located on top of a mountain overlooking the plain teldense and consists of a large cave with four doors and its name suggests, plus an ALMOGAREN ( religious vessel ) at the top and a village of caves with collective barn in the back, the caves of Tara and Cendro remains of the ancient center of population, the town of Draguillo on the border with Ingenio, Las Cuevas Chalasia which consist of a labyrinthine series of artificial caves linked by tunnels and the impressive Necropolis of Jinámar which includes more than 500 tombs of various types belonging to the old canary.

The cliffs of the beach in Las Grutas (" The Caves ") have been eroded by the fluctuating tides, making caves ( grutas ) on them.

Las Piedras, being a colorful town, has many natural attractions such as " La Cueva del Indio " which is a place that has original Indian playgrounds, caves and paintings that denote some characteristics of the ancient island's natives.

The distinctive Las Palmas burial complex, involving secondary burials painted with red ochre and deposited in caves or rockshelters, was particularly noted ( Massey 1955 ).

Some of the most prominent are the coastal town of Tufia in good condition and extensively excavated by archaeologists, a large cave with four doors located on top of a mountain overlooking the plain, and a village of caves with collective barn in the back, the caves of Tara and Cendro remains of the ancient center of population, the town of Draguillo on the border with Ingenio, Las Cuevas Chalasia which consist of a labyrinthine series of artificial caves linked by tunnels and the impressive Necropolis of Jinámar which includes more than 500 tombs of various types.

The inhabitants of Las Rozas took refuge in other places of the nearby Sierra ( mountains ) such as the caves in Hoyo de Manzanares.

One is located at the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, List of stores from the Bellagio hotel / casino website the other at the MGM Grand Casino in Macau. Press release by MGM Macau mentioning Chihuly shop ( search for " Chihuly retail ") A number of other galleries also carry his pieces. In 1983 Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971.

Although his work has been criticized for the lack of candor in checking the " facts ", some of his text has been confirmed by recent research, like the spectacular remains of Roman gold mines in Spain, especially at Las Medulas, which Pliny probably saw in operation while a Procurator there a few years before he compiled the encyclopedia.

In 1970, he made another TV special: Gene Kelly and 50 Girls and was invited to bring the show to Las Vegas, Nevada, which he duly did for an eight-week stint – on condition he be paid more than any artist had hitherto been paid there.

Las Casa returned fire and sent boarding parties which captured Olid's ships.

Under the circumstances, Olid proposed a truce to which Las Casas agreed, and he did not land his forces.

He next re-teamed with director Ashby in 1982's Lookin ' to Get Out, in which he played Alex Kovac, a con man who has run into debt with New York mobsters and hopes to win enough in Las Vegas to pay them off.

There are several Reno and Las Vegas casinos offering as many as 20 or 30 different paytables from which the player can choose.

In the 1970s, an effort to open jazz clubs in the River Quay area of City Market along the Missouri ended in a gangland war in which three of the new clubs were blown up in what ultimately resulted in the removal of Kansas City mob influence in the Las Vegas casinos.

A few markets also launched music-only channels including Las Vegas ' KVMY Channel 21, which debuted in the summer of 1984 as KRLR-TV Vusic 21.

The Rhythm Devils announced their first tour in 2006, which ended at the popular Vegoose festival in Las Vegas, Nevada over the Halloween weekend.

In 1972 they performed for a Swedish documentary, Nancy & Lee In Las Vegas, which chronicled their Vegas concerts at the Riviera Hotel and featured solo numbers and duets from concerts, behind-the-scenes footage, and scenes of Sinatra's late husband, Hugh Lambert, and her mother.

Admiral Janeway also appeared in the Borg Invasion 4-D ride at the Star Trek: The Experience venue in Las Vegas, which closed in 2008.

Throughout the 1990s, Gilliam directed his Trilogy of Americana, The Fisher King ( 1991 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( 1998 ), which were based on scripts by other people, played on North American soil, and while still being surreal, had less fantastical plots than his previous trilogy.

At the time of its liquidation, Westwood employed a third of the original Westwood Studios personnel, some of which formed Petroglyph Games in April 2003, along with three of them ( Brett Sperry, Adam Isgreen and Rade Stojsavljevic ) forming Jet Set Games development studio in 2008, both based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

During the telecast, NBC switched over to the game between the Orlando Rage and the Chicago Enforcers, which was a closer contest than the blowout taking place in Las Vegas.

* May 10 – Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands, which he names Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.

In a complete disregard of orders, Wheeler brought on a fight which escalated into the Battle of Las Guasimas.

By 1521, the ships of Magellan and other Spanish explorers had reached that island archipelago, which they named Las Islas de Filipinas, after Philip II of Spain.

The liner makes a stop at Venus, which is depicted as a latter-day Las Vegas gone ultra-capitalistic.

At a 2005 workshop in Las Vegas, a seminar noted the introduction of telemetry equipment which would allow vending machines to communicate sales and inventory data to a route truck or to a headquarters.

Reminiscent of series such as The Twilight Zone, Sir-Mix-a-Lot functioned as an omniscient narrator who introduced each episode, which would feature a new tale set in the seamy underbelly of Las Vegas.

A referendum, which took place on 2006 in Las Condes, over the construction of a mall was noteworthy for being the first instance in Chilean history where electronic voting machines were used.

The most famous of these was a studio in 1968 in which Venturi and Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, led a team of students to document and analyze the Las Vegas Strip, perhaps the least likely subject for a serious research project imaginable.

To show this, first note that every problem which is in both RP and co-RP has a Las Vegas algorithm as follows: