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Mark Strouse served two terms as Virginia City's chief of police and two terms as city treasurer. Additionally, he... -
Margaret Kelly created a new form of dance entertainment in 1932 when she founded the "Bluebell Girls" in Paris,... -
The Mapes Hotel and Casino was the first major high-rise hotel built in this country after World War II. When the twelve-story... -
The tiny Isle of Man, located in the Irish Sea, had a nineteenth-century population of roughly 60,000, so it was not able to... -
Miner George Nicholl found rich silver deposits in the southern part of the Toquima Range in Nye County during 1866. Only... -
The 1864 Nevada state constitution called for the founding of a school of mines. The creation of the University of Nevada...