Boyd Gaming drops Pa. slots bid
HARRISBURG, Pa. Boyd Gaming Corp., one of the 22 applicants for slot-machine licenses in Pennsylvania, is giving up on its bid for a gambling hall in suburban Philadelphia, a company spokesman said Friday.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- 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.
- Gambling became legalized in Vegas in 1931 by Mayme V. Stocker and J.H. Morgan who was issued Clark County Gaming License No. 1.
- The Great Wall of China was financed, in part, by a lottery. The Bible is replete with references to drawing lots. Lot casting was a favored means of communication between man and god.
- French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascal's theory of probability in 1654.

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