Casino licenses caught in traffic
HARRISBURG — If one thing became clear during the state Gaming Board hearings last week, it was that putting a casino in the Hill District or Station Square or the North Side would create some of the biggest traffic jams ever seen in Pittsburgh.Save
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Gambling casinos info:
- 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.
- The first legal lottery in the twentieth century was the New Hampshire Sweepstakes which began on March 12, 1964. Currently 37 states and the District of Columbia operate lotteries.
- Massachusetts decriminalized bingo in 1931 in an attempt to help churches and charitable organizations raise money. Bingo was legal in 11 states by the 1950s, usually only for charity purposes.
- 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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