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Almost two months ago, I came across a great gray owl that was surveying a bog from the top of a weathered fence post. I watched him for a few minutes as he looked around. Then the big, yellow eyes watched me for a few seconds before the wings stretched out and he flew up […]…
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I decided to compare briefly two movies I’ve seen within a few days of each other. These happened to be on Hulu and basically watched them because I’m doing a Cheers marathon right now while sometimes unpacking. It brought up other options I might be interested in and The Brady Bunch Movie came up. Plus,…
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Since moving to the Las Vegas area, I’ve seen weird rain, thunder, and lightning patterns. It can arrive quick and leave quicker, but now I don’t feel so bad for the trees. I’ve had flash flood and dust storm warnings on my phone. The first for me as I’m more used to fire alerts and long before…
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“I always had trouble when I was playing with government money.” -Emmett Michaels- : Publisher: Huntington Press Publication: July 1, 2006 Page Number: 256 I couldn’t post four blogs worth of photos and not recommend a book regarding the whole mob and law relationship in Las Vegas. Long before I plucked this book off the shelf and when I should’ve been doing…
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The fourth and last post of The Mob Museum include the end of the La Cosa Nostra in its prime, the emergence of new organized criminal groups (sort of), the current illegal and practices, the Las Vegas area including The Strip (being technical is located in Paradise and Winchester), and anything else I forgot. The Mob did…
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This part covers the main players for and against the Mob. The Mob members were eventually forced to accept their fate, although they had some unique methods of not cooperating with the law, mainly by keeping their mouths shut and eyes closed. As we all know, they didn’t lose sleep taking out members when it had to be done…
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The Mob Museum continues to the “nice” and “fun” part of organized crime owned drinking establishments and casinos, as well as the great money making opportunity for the Mob when Prohibition went into effect. There’s nothing that won’t and can’t be touched by the Mob (and the wrong spelling of Marilyn as in Marilyn Monroe).…
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