Cops pass on charging Legion for online bingo
The Royal Canadian Legion in Yellowknife is off the hook for an innovative fundraiser gone wrong. The Legion advertised online bingo for the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in the newspaper last week, but the plan was scrapped after it was told online gambling is illegal.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
- French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
- Charles Fey invented the first slot machine way back in 1895. He went on to perfect his initial innovation in 1907, when he teamed with Mills Novelty Company who manufactured the "Mills Liberty Bell".
- Las Vegas in Nevada owes its success to the mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel who organized gaming and bookmaking operations for The Mob (the Mafia).
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