The Marina Hotel, located at 3805 Las Vegas Boulevard, opened in 1975 as a 714-room hotel and casino. In 1989 Kirk Kerkorian bought the Marina Hotel and the Tropicana Country Club to obtain the site that would become the home of it. Ground was broken on October 7, 1991 for then new casino hotel complex. The Marina closed on November 30, 1991. The Marina hotel building still exists as the western end of the main hotel building. Marina Hotel became the home of what ?
A-The MGM Grand
Friday, March 18, 2011
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It is the largest newspaper in the United States, by circulation. Its name derives from a location in New York City. It has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. The newspaper version has won the Pulitzer Prize 33 times. Jones converted the small Customers' Afternoon Letter into it, first published in 1889, and began delivery via telegraph. It featured the first of several indexes of stock and bond prices on the New York Stock Exchange. Which Paper ?
A-Wall Street Journal
A-Wall Street Journal
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It was earlier named Longacre was later renamed in April 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building. In 1904, New York Times publisher Adolph S. Ochs moved the newspaper's operations to a new skyscraper on 42nd Street at Longacre. Ochs persuaded Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. to construct a subway station there, and the area was renamed to its current name on April 8, 1904. Just three weeks later, the first electrified advertisement appeared on the side of a bank at the corner of 46th Street and Broadway. What am i talking about ?
A-Times Square
A-Times Square
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He was born in New York City to Florence Spellman, an unwed 19-year-old. His biological father was an Italian-American U. S. Air Force pilot, who was stationed abroad before Spellman realized that she had become pregnant by him. After he contracted pneumonia at the age of nine months, his mother determined that she was unable to care for him adequately, and arranged for him to be adopted by her aunt and uncle in Chicago. Lillian Spellman and Louis adopted him when he was nine months old. Lillian was the second wife of Louis , a Russian Jew who had arrived in the United States in 1905. Who ?
A-Larry Ellison
A-Larry Ellison
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