Shinnecocks aim to swap casino for Aqueduct gaming
The Shinnecock Indian Nation will consider dropping its controversial bid to construct a casino in Southampton, the tribe said yesterday, if it is allowed to build a full-scale gambling operation at Aqueduct.
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Casino gambling facts:
- Dice games have existed in one form or another for over 2000 years and were originally played with dice fashioned from the knucklebones of sheep.
- Casino is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: a small country house, or a building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, gaming, or a game at cards.
- In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
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