Metro Councilman Faces Gambling Charges
A judge sent a Metro councilman’s gambling case to the grand jury. An undercover officer testified Ludye Wallace was at a North Nashville social club where gambling was taking place. Wallace’s attorney says the councilman never actually gambled. Copyright 2006 by WKRN Nashville Tennessee. All Rights Reserved.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.
- In Paris, legislation prohibiting playing cards was passed in 1377, and in Italy, playing cards and dice were burned.
- The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
- The MGM Grand, situated on the a Las Vegas strip has come up with a brand new slogan to promote the casino, "Think of all the New Year's resolutions you'll break." Some say it might even rival the famous Las Vegas catchphrase, "What happens here, stays here."
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