#154: Las Vegas

⚡️⚡️⚡️  Black Friday Sale ⚡️⚡️⚡️Special link: https://bit.ly/BlackFridayELFCM25💰  Save 20% AND unlock €500 in English-learning challenges⏳  Limited availability⏱  Ends 23:59, Sunday, November 30th---It's the world's Sin City, where fortunes and made and lost. In this episode, you'll learn about the history of this unlikely city, from its early days as a desert oasis to its links with the Mafia, from eccentric entrepreneurs right through to atomic bombs.Geographic location of Las VegasDiscovering Las Vegas ("The Meadows")1905: A sleepy railway townConstruction begins on The Hoover DamProviding entertainment for construction workers1930s and 1940s: Bugsy Siegel and The Mafia arriveBugsy Siegel's early lifeBuilding The FlamingoPost World War II: "cheap luxury"Watching atomic bombs explodeHoward Hughes arrives and never leavesPushing the mafia out of town1980s: Las Vegas revivalLas Vegas todayFull interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/las-vegas ---You might like:🖤 Black Friday Sale (20% off AND €500 in English-learning challenges) ⚡️  How To Use Podcasts Like A Boss To Learn English📧 Join the weekly newsletter---Keywords: Learn English, vocabulary, lessons, idioms, aprende inglés, idiomas, aprender inglês, apprendre l'anglais, imparare l’inglese, ingilizce öğren,英語を習う, تعلم الإنجليزية

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