Las Vegas started as a stopover on the pioneer trails to the west, and became a popular railroad town in the early 20th century. It was a staging point for mines in the surrounding area, especially those around the town of Bullfrog, that shipped goods to the rest of the country.
With the proliferation of the railroads, Las Vegas became less important, but the completion of the nearby Hoover Dam in 1935 resulted in growth in the number of residents and increased tourism.The dam, located 30 mi (48 km) southeast of the city, formed Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States.
The legalization of gambling in 1931 led to the advent of the casino hotels for which Las Vegas is famous. Major development occurred in the 1940s, “due almost entirely” to the influx of scientists and staff from the Manhattan Project, an atomic bomb research project of World War II.
American organized crime figures such as Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel and Meyer Lansky managed or funded most of the original large casinos. The rapid growth of Las Vegas is credited with dooming the gambling industry development of Galveston, Texas; Hot Springs, Arkansas; and other major gambling centers in the 1950s.
In downtown Winnipeg is Upper Fort Garry Heritage Park. Upper Fort Garry was a Hudson’s Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg. It was established in 1822 on or near the site of the North West Company’s Fort Gibraltar established by John Wills in 1810 and destroyed by Governor Semple’s men in 1816 during the Pemmican War. Fort Garry was named after Nicholas Garry, deputy governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company. It served as the centre of fur trade within the Red River Colony. In 1826, a severe flood destroyed the fort. It was rebuilt in 1835 by the HBC and named Upper Fort Garry to differentiate it from “the Lower Fort,” or Lower Fort Garry, 32 km downriver, which was established in 1831. Throughout the mid-to-late 19th century, Upper Fort Garry played a minor role in the actual trading of furs, but was central to the administration of the HBC and the surrounding settlement. The Council of Assiniboia, the administrative and judicial body of the Red River Colony mainly run by Hudson’s Bay Company officials, met at Upper Fort Garry.
In the park is a heritage wall. The wall is made out of steel and using LED lights historical events are depicted along the wall. Audio is also provided.
If you think Nickelback, Smashing Pumpkins, Limp Bizkit and The Bare Naked Ladies are funny mindless band names, you haven’t heard anything yet. The guys who thought up the names below must have been pouring through thesauruses while pumped up on a vodka cocaine mix.
The List in alphabetical order:
Abracadaver
Adickdid Afrodiziac Alcoholocaust Anus the Menace Baldilocks Bassholes
Blood Sledge Electric Death Chickens Bondage A Go Go BowWowWowHaus Broadzilla Bulimia Banquet Cap’n Crunch and the Cereal Killers Crappy the Clown and the Punch Drunk Monkies Deepthroat Shotgun Dick Duck and the Dorks Disgruntled Postal Workers Doris Daze Dow Jones and the Industrials Drunken Ugly Basement Brothers Endangered Feces Evil Beaver Fat Welfare Moms On Dust 50 Naked Midgets The Fred Mertz Experience The French are from Hell Frumious Bandersnatch GangGreen The Gaza Strippers Duckbutter Electric Al and the Poison Dart Frog McNuggets Epileptic Disco Ethyl Merman The Fartz Fearless Iranians From Hell The Hostile Amish Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program Lesbian Dopeheads on Mopeds Lubricated Goat The Morning Shakes Organic Condom Mazda Drugs Porn on the Cob Squirrel Nut Zippers
Super Sonic Soul Pimps Titty Bingo UFOFU Vomit Launch The Whip-M-Out Girl’s Willie Nelson Mandela Zombies Under Stress Zombina & The Skeletones
Zorro and the Blue Footballs Zsa Zsa Zulu Leprechauns
Are Sasquatches related to Wookies? The possibilities are mind-boggling.
Sasquatch having a crap at left, Wookie relaxing after a crap at right.
Rather than being a missing link between man and the apes, Bigfoot may possibly be an alien entity. This intriguing possibility is derived from evidence in several solid UFO cases.
The earliest clues date back to 1888, when a cattleman described an encounter with friendly Indians in Humboldt County, California. They led him to a cave where he saw a hefty humanoid creature covered in long, shiny black hair, with no neck, sitting cross-legged.
One Indian told him three of these “Crazy Bears” had been cast out of a small moon that dropped from the sky and landed.The “moon” then ascended back into the air. So it’s highly likely the “Crazy Bears” were really Bigfoots, and the “moon,” a spacecraft.
Now fast-forward almost 100 years to 1973… and Mrs. Reafa Heitfield. She and her 13-year-old son were sleeping in a trailer in Cincinnati, Ohio on the morning of October 21. Reafa arose at 2:30 a.m. to quench her thirst, and noticed strange lights in the adjoining parking lot. Looking out the window, her attention was drawn, in particular, to an inexplicable cone of light, shaped like a huge bubble umbrella — about seven feet in diameter.
Nearby she spotted a grayish, ape-like creature with a large, downward angled snout, no neck and a sizable waist. Moving slowly, it then entered into the light. About five minutes later, both apeman and UFO disappeared.
Another dramatic incident occurred a few days later on October 25, 1973. A group of farmers in Fayette County, Pennsylvania caught sight of a dome-shaped UFO that was brightly lit and about 100 feet in diameter. As the locals drove toward it, they saw a pair of gargantuan creatures covered with thick, matted hair, luminescent green eyes and long arms that dangled below their knees.
A farmer’s son fired a gun shot at the creatures, one of which raised its right hand in the air. At that very moment, the UFO disappeared. Then, the two Bigfoots escaped into the woods and were never seen again.
Dairy farmer William Bosak of Frederic, Wisconsin was returning from a co-op meeting about 10:30 p.m. on December 9, 1974, when he nearly slammed into a globular UFO on the road in front of him, its bottom half enshrouded in fog.
Inside the visible transparent dome was a six-foot-tall ape-like creature with reddish-brown fur covering its body (except for the face) and distinctive pointed ears. It appeared to be operating a control panel. As Bosak passed by, the object suddenly arose and disappeared.
In August,1976, after a series of UFO sightings around Rutland, British Columbia, Canada, several men and their children saw a hairy ape-like entity, six to seven feet tall roaming about a mountainside. They also found a clump of hair that was sent to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for identification. Laboratory analysis confirmed it was primate hair, but, significantly, it could not be matched to any known species on earth!
Perhaps the Bigfoot creatures are UFO pilots, landing on earth for exploratory purposes. Or, conceivably, higher level ETs are leaving behind some specimens as “guinea pigs” to test our environment for long-term survival. Or, possibly,these Bigfoots are criminal entities being deposited on Earth as a form of cosmic deportation!
A hybrid cyborg?
Romulan hybrid?
Somebody has to set up a big net out in the forest and get one of these sneaky critters!
A German teenager found himself in hot water with Egyptian authorities after being arrested for climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Andrej Ciesielski scaled the legendary monument back in 2017 in a daring daylight climb that amazingly only took him about 8 minutes to accomplish.
Despite being spotted by police during his ascent, Ciesielski continued to the top of the pyramid to savor the once-in-a-lifetime view and document his incredible feat.
Upon returning to ground level, the young man was arrested and could have faced up to three years in jail for the stunt.
He was eventually released after agreeing to let authorities delete the footage and photos from his climb.
Fortunately, Ciesielski had a way to recover the digital material and is now sharing the evidence of his awesome adventure with the world.
One slip and it’s going to be a head-over-heels crash that could cause permanent damage.
Here are some photos of Russian adventurers who climbed the pyramid a few years ago.
After a hard day of pyramid climbing, go to the KFC and indulge in local chicken cuisine.
The real life Jetsons! Start-up develops a $92,000 flying vehicle dubbed Jetson One that ‘anyone can own and fly’
The electric flying vehicle can operate for about 15 minutes on a single charge
It comes 50 per cent complete with the rest built at the new owners home
The device, which sells for £66,000 ($92,000) is sold out completely in 2022
A startup from Sweden has developed a personal flying vehicle that it says ‘anyone can fly’ called the Jetson One, and it is available for £66,000 ($92,000).
The all electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft was launched this month, three years after the firm released a ‘proof of concept’ prototype in 2018.
‘Our mission is to make flight available to everyone. The Jetson one is an electric helicopter that you can own and fly. We intend to make everyone a pilot,’ said Jetson co-founder Peter Ternstrom.
The single-seat ‘built at home’ kit-copter can zoom along at 63 mph thanks to its lightweight aluminium and carbon fibre frame and 118 horsepower engine.
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A startup from Sweden has developed a personal flying vehicle that it says ‘anyone can fly’ called the Jetson One, and it is available for £66,000 ($92,000).
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The car is named after The Jetsons, a fictional ‘future family’ created in the early 1960s by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and including UFO-like flying cars.
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