London midmorning: Footsie hits three-week high
LONDON (SHARECAST) - A stronger mining sector helped Londons leading shares work their way even higher through the morning to a three-week high. Online poker firm PartyGaming led the gainers on the back of reports that it is to expand into sports betting by making acquisitions, funded by the issue of bonds that could raise £500m.
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Gambling casinos history:
- It was during the 1930's that slot machines began to become very popular across America, and in the late 40's Bugsy Siegel added machines to his Flamingo Hilton hotel in Las Vegas.
- Although the Greeks had a profound understanding of mathematics they had no concept of probability, and assumed that the outcome of games of chance was due to the will of the gods.
- 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.
- The first airplane flight to Las Vegas was made in May, 1920, with Lieutenant Randall Henderson, editor of the Blythe, California Herald, and Jack Beckley.
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