Texas Lottery should be clear about jackpots

The Texas Lottery, this state’s legalized gambling operation, seems to reel from one fiasco to the next with hardly a pause.

Mon, December 5th, 2005

The first legal lottery in the twentieth century was the New Hampshire Sweepstakes which began on March 12, 1964. Currently 37 states and the District of Columbia operate lotteries.
The most significant forms of illegal gambling in the United States are numbers, betting with bookmakers or bookies, and sports pools or sports cards.
The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
1973: The MGM Grand opens on the Strip, becoming the world's largest hotel.
1989: One of Vegas's most extravag-ant hotels opens. Steve Wynn's Mirage resort features a man-made volcano and over 3,000 rooms. Siegfried and Roy sign a $57 million, five-year contract to provide entertainment at the hotel.

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