Tag: history

Liberace: Real and Beyond

Liberace: Real and Beyond features rarely-seen costumes, religious items and other personal effects, historic photographs, and ephemera. Together, the collection tells the story of Liberace’s complicated life, showcases his contribution

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Liberace: Real and Beyond

Liberace: Real and Beyond features rarely-seen costumes, religious items and other personal effects, historic photographs, and ephemera. Together, the collection tells the story of Liberace’s complicated life, showcases his contribution

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Liberace: Real and Beyond

Liberace: Real and Beyond features rarely-seen costumes, religious items and other personal effects, historic photographs, and ephemera. Together, the collection tells the story of Liberace’s complicated life, showcases his contribution

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Liberace: Real and Beyond

Liberace: Real and Beyond features rarely-seen costumes, religious items and other personal effects, historic photographs, and ephemera. Together, the collection tells the story of Liberace’s complicated life, showcases his contribution

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Art Heists: Stolen Masterpieces

Former FBI special agent Robert Wittman led the FBI’s National Art Crime Team in tracking art thieves and recovering more than $300 million in stolen art. From Rembrandt’s self-portrait to

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Atomix: Discussion of “Oppenheimer”

Join Robert Oppenheimer’s grandchildren, Dorothy Oppenheimer Vanderford and Charles Oppenheimer, as they discuss their grandfather’s atomic legacy and the new biopic Oppenheimer by Hollywood director Christopher Nolan. Cocktails and Hors

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Hawaiian Flag Day History

The first Hawaiian Flag was commissioned by King Kamehameha the Great in 1816. The Flag has undergone many transformations over the past 200 years with the current design authorized to

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Juneteenth: A Brunch Jamboree

This event is celebrates the Queer Black Experience of Juneteenth. This event is free and features a “dapper brunch” with live entertainment, networking, music, dance, food, drinks, and raffles.

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Obon Spirit Festival

The 34th Annual Japanese Obon Spirit Festival, hosted by the Las Vegas Japanese Buddhist Sangha (Friends), is a way to honor the spirits of the deceased. Traditional foods like bento

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Las Vegas Stories : The Early Pioneers of Las Vegas

History of Juneteenth

Tyler D. Parry, an associate professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at UNLV, examines the history of the Juneteenth holiday and its broader importance within the United States.

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