- The Plaza Hotel (often referred to as The Plaza), located in Manhattan at 768 Fifth Avenue, is a luxury hotel and condominium apartment building. The hotel, completed in 1906, has gone through numerous changes of ownership and variations in profitability. In 1988 Donald Trump, using huge loans, bought The Plaza and put his first (not-yet-divorced) wife Ivana Trump in charge of renovating and managing the hotel. Trump sold the controlling stake to Kwek and Al-Waleed in April 1995. After two more changes of ownership, Katara Hospitality acquired full ownership of the Plaza Hotel in July 2018.
- Tyre (Wikipedia)
Tyre (/ˈtaɪər/; Arabic: صُور, romanized: Ṣūr; Phoenician: 𐤑𐤓, romanized: Ṣūr; Greek: Τύρος, translit. Týros) is a city in Lebanon, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, though in medieval times for some centuries by just a tiny population. It was one of the earliest Phoenician metropolises and the legendary birthplace of Europa, her brothers Cadmus and Phoenix, as well as Carthage’s founder Dido (Elissa). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites in 1984. The historian Ernest Renan noted that “One can call Tyre a city of ruins, built out of ruins”.