Casino promoters get flak
Have members of one of the groups pushing for legalized casinos in Kentucky bet on the wrong horse in a statehouse race?
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Gambling history facts:
- In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
- Indian tribes have used their position as sovereign entities to develop a number of gaming establishments. Indian casinos operate in 22 states. This number is expected to grow.
- Although baccara has its origins in medieval Italy, it soon spread to France, where it was called "chemin de fer" (meaning railway, due to the action of the card box or shoe passing around the table on "tracks").
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
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