Black Heroes
She used her left hand to point while saying, "You get a car! You get a car!"
Oprah
At the Graceland wedding chapel, couples get hitched & serenaded by one of these impersonators.
Elvis
In 2017 a hit song taught many people that this Spanish word means "slowly."
despacito
It's a deceptive image of a distant object; in this case, both are in the desert.
a mirage
An inflammation of the eyelid's lining, conjunctivitis is more commonly known by this colorful name.
pink eye
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is the first volume of her autobiography.
Maya Angelou
In 1970 Binion's Horseshoe Casino hosted the first-ever World Series of this.
poker
Orange is anaranjado & red is this word also containing J.
rojo
Lesser in name only, millions of these pink wading birds gather to breed on large lakes in East Africa.
flamingo
Surgically removing these cloudy areas on the lens of the eye is one of the most common medical procedures in the world.
a cataract
Of that bus incident in 1955, she once said, "All I was doing was trying to get home from work."
Rosa Parks
No surprise, the Paris Las Vegas hotel has a 540-foot-tall replica of this landmark.
the Eiffel Tower (or tour Eiffel)
Meaning "aunt", it precedes Maria in a liqueur order.
tia
You'll find "fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!" at the start of this novel.
The most common form of color blindness affects a person's ability to see shades of red & this color.
green
MLK Jr.'s anti-war sentiments emerged publicly in 1965, when he declared: “millions of dollars can be spent every day to hold troops in South Vietnam and our country cannot protect the rights of Negroes in Selma.” Who was president at the time?
Lyndon B. Johnson / LBJ
One of the NHL's newest teams, they play their home games at the T-Mobile arena, near the strip.
the Golden Knights
It's a form of "named", as in "Como se ____ usted?"; pronounced the Anglo way, it's a South American pack animal.
llama
Lyrics in this song include "these vagabond shoes are longing to stray" & "these little town blues are melting away."
"New York, New York"
A hollow area that holds a light bulb.
socket
Journalist & activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett helped found this civil rights organization in 1909.
NAACP
This hotel boasts a colorful indoor display of glass flowers by Dale Chihuly & dancing waters out front.
the Bellagio
The name of this dish literally means "rice with chicken."
arroz con pollo
A granite shrine of Alexander the Great is in the temple of this capital of Al-Uqsur in Upper Egypt.
Luxor
People say these are what you need to make it in Hollywood.
contacts