Senior briefs

Bridgeview Golden Agers will meet at noon today and Nov. 28 at the Bridgeview Community Center, 79th Street and Oketo Avenue. New members are welcome, but must be Bridgeview residents 55 or older. Bingo is played after each meeting.

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Tue, November 14th, 2006

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Do you know that:

  • In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
  • Casino chips were used in the 18th century as a substitute for money being wagered. Originally, they were pieces of bones, mother of pearl or ivory engraved with the name of the casino and their respective value.
  • The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
  • French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.