SuriWatch: Gambling On The First Photos

In what we’re absolutely certain isn’t a publicity stunt meant to exploit the current buzz around Tom Cruise’s inability to fetch an acceptable price for the first photographs of his rapidly…

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Thu, July 6th, 2006

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Gambling casinos history:

  • Catholics were found to be more likely to gamble than Protestants and other religious groups. Catholics were also found to be less likely to disapprove of gambling than other religious groups.
  • U.S. News and World Report did a comparison of crime rates in cities with gambling versus those that do not. The crime rates were significantly higher in the places that allowed gambling.
  • 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.
  • Bingo as we know it today is a form of lottery and is a direct descendant of Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia - the Italian National Lottery organized in 1530.