Mayor replaced in scandal’s wake
March 26, 1909: Bewhiskered 70-year-old George Alexander was chosen Los Angeles mayor in a special election, just a few weeks after Mayor Arthur Harper resigned from office amid a recall movement fueled by charges that he had fostered a sugar company stock swindle to line his pockets, took payoffs from casinos and was often found drunk in brothels.
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Gambling casinos history:
- French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
- Gaming is now the States' favorite pastime. More individuals gamble than the combined total of those attending movies, sports, music events, theme parks and live entertainment.
- 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 major differences between regular poker and video poker is that you are playing against a machine rather than real people, and your goal is to achieve particular hands rather than beat opponents hands.
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