LAS VEGAS & THE VEGA STAR IN THE CONSTELLATION OF LYRA. Was the city built in alignment with the star?
That’s an imaginitive idea, but no. My Spanish dictionary says “Las Vegas” means, “the fertile plains.” This web site (http://www.icoproject.org/star.html ) says that the star name “Vega” is a corruption of the Arabic “Al Waqi'”, which means “The stooping eagle.” It’s not really meaningful to align something on the ground with a star, because the star’s position in the sky changes all the time as the earth rotates. Vega is sometimes in the east, sometimes in the west, and sometimes straight overhead.
