Kennedy Memoir: It Isnât News Teddy Was an Alcoholic. BOSTON â Patrick Kennedy must be doing something right â apparently everyone in his family is angry about his new memoir, which is already at the top of the Amazon.com best seller list before its official publication Friday.
The Vegas Golden Knights are a professional ice hockey team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The team began play in the 2017â18 NHL season, and is a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League. The team is owned by Black Knight Sports & Entertainment, a consortium led by Bill Foley, and plays its home games at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.
This history of Las Vegas covers both the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Las Vegas Valley. Southern Paiutes at Moapa wearing traditional Paiute cradleboard and rabbit robe The name Las Vegas was given to the area in 1821 by Rafael Rivera, a member of the Antonio Armijo trading party that was traveling to Los Angeles, and stopped for water there on the Old Spanish Trail from New Mexico. At that time, several parts of the valley contained artesian wells surrounded by extensive green areas; Las Vegas means the meadows in Spanish. The flows from the wells fed the Las Vegas Wash, which runs to the Colorado River.