Senior centers: Beyond bingo
UPDATED: 04 :36 a.m. EDT, April 29, 2007 Smoke lingers as flames crawl down a hillside in Wayne National Forest during a prescribed burn on Friday, April 20, 2007, near Logan, Ohio. The surge of red maples across Ohio poses a risk of changing the state’s forest ecosystem, and the burn is aimed at preventing that.
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Gambling history facts:
- By the 1370s, playing cards had reached Europe in a form that is recognizable today, with a pack consisting of 52 cards with suits of swords, polo-sticks, cups and coins.
- 1941: The Strip gets its first luxury hotel. El Rancho Vegas sets the trend for many of the themed resorts that sprout along the Strip in later years.
1942: The first wedding chapel, the Little Church of the West, opens on the Strip in the Last Frontier Hotel. - One of the oldest casinos in Europe, at Baden Baden in Germany, was opened in 1748 by Edouard Benazet, who employed Parisian craftsmen to design the stylish rooms.
- The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
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