Riverdale bingo battle continues tonight
Posted: 9:34 AM- RIVERDALE - Bingo - that perennial game of chance - will remain on trial in Riverdale tonight. The City Council, acting as a quasi-judicial jury, is hearing testimony and sorting through evidence to decide whether to revoke the business license of Riverdale Dinner & Bingo. The hearing began Tuesday night, but after nearly five hours, was adjourned until 6:30 tonight at …
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Do you know that:
- Bingo as we know it today is a form of lottery and is a direct descendant of Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia - the Italian National Lottery organized in 1530.
- The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.
- U.S. News and World Report did a comparison of crime rates in cities with gambling versus those that do not. The crime rates were significantly higher in the places that allowed gambling.
- 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.
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