Overdose: One man dead, second held in gambler murder

“He feels that he is in urgent need of medical treatment . . his pleas at the Watchhouse have fallen on deaf ears”

A MAN is dead and another in custody after being named as suspects in the cold-blooded murder of Black Forest man George Siahamis. via The Advertiser

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Fri, April 20th, 2007

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Gambling casinos history:

  • Although the Greeks had a profound understanding of mathematics they had no concept of probability, and assumed that the outcome of games of chance was due to the will of the gods.
  • 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.
  • By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
  • The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.