America is well known over the whole world because of its big film industry called Hollywood. A real estate tycoon called Harvey Henderson Wilcox  and his wife  Daeida went to live there on the agrarian mountain just outside the big city Los Angeles.  His wife had met a Dutch woman that has called her own manor house ‘Hollywood’. She liked the name and used it also for their estate on the mountain, that’s why it nowadays still called ‘Hollywood’. 

At the beginning of the 20^th century, many film producers moved to Los Angeles to make movies. This is because Thomas Edison in New Jersey made strict rules for producing movies. In Los Angeles they were independent . Also its nice weather and the varied terrain was ideal for making movies. 

The well-known Hollywood letters on the top of the mountain was intended to advertise new homes over the city in 1923. There was actually ‘Hollywoodland’ spelled. In 1943 was the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce allowed to change it to ‘Hollywood’. 

The emergence of the television industry in 1950 Hollywood started to change. All around the city there came television- and music recording studios . But the important film adaption, effects and props, still remain in Hollywood. 

In the 1980s and 1990s Arnold became the biggest and highest paid stars of Hollywood, with action movies as The Terminator. 

In 1986 he married Maria Shriver, an award-winning author, journalist and a niece of President John F kennedy. They have four kids together. In 2011, Arnold admitted that he had an illegitimate child for ten years with his housekeeper. That was the reason Maria Shriver broke up with him. 

After his body build and actor careers he became the Governor of California in 2003, as a republican. Nowadays he has his own body build tournament, called ‘Arnold Classic’. It is one of the most popular body build tournaments of the world, after Mr. Olympia. 

In the Grand Canyon you can see how the world changed over the years. You can see that on the horizontal stripes in the walls of the Grand Canyon. Every stripe proposes a period in history. It makes it one of the most impressive natural phenomena on Earth. 

The Grand Canyon is a great tourist attraction. As an tourist you can do a lot of different things in the Grand Canyon. You can descending a piece from a gap or take a flight with a helicopter aver the Grand Canyon. I went also on the helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon seven years ago. It was one of the most inspiring things I’ve inspired. 

In 3 may 1844, John Fremont and his army used Las Vegas to make a fortress against the Mexicans. Not very long after that, the Americans won the war. Las Vegas was since that time officially part of America. The name Las Vegas means ‘the pastures’. 

The whole city was provided with a water pipe in 1905. The city became increasingly popular for mainly traders. In 1931, the construction of the Hoover Dam began, causing the number of inhabitants to soar from 5,000 to 25,000. Most of it was man and that meant that in their spare time they were looking for entertainment.

Because there was not much to do in the area, business people, investors and  the mafia came up on the idea to build theatres and casinos. At that time the state Nevada legalized gambling. Because there were almost only men, they didn’t have to be bored when they were free of work. 

Howard Hughes a real estate tycoon changed the wild west image to Luxury and style by building big hotels. Nowadays Las Vegas is the most popular entertainment city of the world, with annually 46 million visitors.