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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Interesting gambling facts:
- 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.
- In 1857, Prince Charles III of Monaco decided to introduce gambling to his Mediterranean principality to boost its finances.
- 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.
- Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.
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