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During its more than 100-year history, an army of people passed through Las Vegas who belonged to a large group of extreme egocentrics, morbid gamblers, corrupt politicians, power and money-hungry entrepreneurs, former clients of prisons, smugglers, moonshiners, gangsters, policemen with criminal past, lawyers and artists with fancies for contacts with the criminal world or the heads of large corporations operating on the border of the law. Honesty and nobility may not have been their trademark, but they had something that characterized true American heroes. They had ideas - fantastically good ideas. Appropriate to the era in which they lived, to the expectations of the people, even if those expectations were outrageous, on the verge of what was allowed and tolerated by the majority of society. Las Vegas is a city that knows no boundaries. A city where nothing cannot be created or cannot be blown up; there is no money that cannot be won or lost. A place where people do their best not to have contact with reality, where their stay becomes a joyful fiction. “Las Vegas is the best city to live in the world, as long as you don’t have any weaknesses. If you have one, we’ll find it.” Jack Benny Binion - casino manager.