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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Howard Hughes, Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, History of Las Vegas, Rat Pack, William A. Clark, Fremont Street, Susan Berman, MGM Grand fire, E. Parry Thomas, David Berman, Herbert Blitzstein, Tule Springs Archaeological Site, Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad, Eureka Locomotive, Railroad Cottage Historic District, John S. Park Historic Park, KENO, Breaking Vegas, Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, Tule Springs Ranch, Antonio Armijo. Excerpt: Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 - April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, industrialist, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, hotelier, philanthropist, and was one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained prominence from the late 1920s as a maverick film producer, making big-budget and often controversial films like The Racket (1928), Hell's Angels (1930), Scarface (1932), and The Outlaw (1943). Hughes was one of the most influential aviators in history; he set multiple world air-speed records, built the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 "Hercules" (better known to history as the "Spruce Goose") aircraft, and acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines which would later on merge with American Airlines. Hughes is also remembered for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle in later life, caused in part by a worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder. His legacy is maintained through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Hughes' birthplace is recorded as either Humble or Houston, Texas. The date is also uncertain, though Hughes claimed his birthday was Christmas Eve. A 1941 affidavit birth certificate of Hughes signed by his aunt Annette Gano Lummis and Estelle Boughton Sharp states he was born on December 24, 1905, in Harris County, Texas. However, his baptismal record of October 7, 1906, in the parish register of St. John's Episcopal Church, in...