Notable Local Deaths
UPDATED: 04 :49 a.m. EDT, January 06, 2008 Bob Specht, 70, plays bingo inside St. Felicitas in Euclid Thursday, Jan. 4, 2008. Nearly two dozen area charitable organizations took in more than $2 million each at Bingo games last year, and eight of those groups took in more than $3 million, according to recently released records.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- 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.
- Originally, the double-zero wheel started in Europe and the single-zero wheel started in America. But, Europeans liked the single-zero wheel better, and Americans liked the double-zero wheel better so they switched. Today, the American wheel and double-zero wheel are synonymous.
- 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.
- 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.
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