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	Podcast:		The Documentary
	Episode:		Las Vegas Stripped Bare
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:49:47
	Publish Date:		2017-06-17 23:00:00
	Description:		With its reputation for glitz, glamour and gambling, Las Vegas has become one of the world’s foremost tourist destinations, with over 40 million visitors a year. But the bright lights and breathtaking architecture conceal a murky past. After gambling was legalised in Nevada in the 1930s, a raft of hotel-casinos sprang up under the control of gangsters such as Bugsy Siegel and Frank Costello – a state of affairs that continued well into the 1960s.
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