Record crowd, record funds raised at Turkey Bingo
Chaz Lee Carroll, 7, plays Turkey Bingo at the CVIC Hall Saturday. The Kiwanis Club hosts Turkey Bingo as an annual fundraiser. Members of the local club donated 63 frozen turkeys and the grand prizes, two DVD players. Proceeds from the event are used to support organizations in the Carson Valley.
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Gambling history facts:
- Legal gambling activities include state lotteries; parimutuel betting on horses, greyhounds, and jai-alai; sports book-making; card games; keno; bingo; slot machines; progressive slot machines; video poker machines; video keno machines; video blackjack machines; and video roulette machines.
- By the 1370s, playing cards had reached Europe in a form that is recognizable today, with a pack consisting of 52 cards with suits of swords, polo-sticks, cups and coins.
- 1994: On New Year's Day Frank Sinatra gives his last Las Vegas performance at the MGM Grand.
1998: Opening of the Bellagio. With 3,026 rooms it is the largest hotel in the world, and also the most expensive - it cost $1.7 billion to build. - Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
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