Casino opponents disrupt traffic
About 200 protesters stopped traffic on a busy, one-block stretch of Columbus Boulevard for 90 minutes yesterday afternoon, saying they want motorists to get a taste of the congestion and annoyance they will experience if the proposed Foxwoods Casino site is approved.
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Interesting gambling information:
- Blackjack originated in French casinos around the 1700's where it was called "vingt-et-un" (twenty-and-one) and has been in United States since the 1800's.
- Up to the 1960s, Nevada was plagued by teamster financing, hidden ownership, employment of individuals of questionable character and background, and the clear links to organized crime.
- The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
- French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
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