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Benjamin Siegel's legendary experience
1930s and1940s, Bug Siegel was worthy of the name. He was a descendant of Austrian Jews and the most powerful gangster on the west coast, but he lived like a movie star.

His friends include George Raft, clark gable, Albert and Kauste Rowe. He keeps having an affair with second-rate female stars, and tourists often drive to see his mansion near Beverly Hills.

Everything about Siegel is so dazzling that it seems to cover up the fact that he is suspected of committing several brutal murders, controlling most major criminal gangs in California and running a heroin smuggling business from Mexico.

Only the police and the press call him "baggs" (note: "baggs" means "bug" with derogatory meaning), and his friends call him "Ben" (note: Siegel's real name). Siegel has been living this double life for many years.

1it was just dark on June 20, 947. Siegel and his old friend Al Smili returned to Hill's Moorish mansion in Beverly Hills. Hill is in Paris. She later said that she went abroad because she had a quarrel with Siegel because Siegel's shirt was dirty and didn't change.

When the accident happened that night, Siegel and Smili were sitting on the sofa, facing two tall French windows. Siegel was reading a newspaper when someone shot him four times outside the window. Two shots hit him in the head, and the other two hit him in the body, killing him on the spot.

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The history of las Vegas

Las Vegas means "fertile grassland" in Spanish, but in fact, Las Vegas is located in the middle of a desolate, hot and dry desert. In the past, people in the pioneering era in the west were mostly looking for a fertile grassland to open up farms. In order to pray for this place to become a fertile grassland, it was named after Las Vegas.

Due to the need of railway construction and maintenance, tribes first appeared in Las Vegas. Later, due to the construction of Hoover Dam, people gradually gathered. However, Nevada legalized gambling in 193 1 and enacted laws on simple marriage and divorce. I want to attract foreign tourists to spend here and cultivate the country's economic ability.

This method is very effective. After Nevada legalized gambling, it immediately attracted many investors and opened many casinos. Soon, gamblers from all over the United States flocked.

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