San Francisco Zoo sees attendance jump
UPDATED: 08 :48 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 information:
- Lotteries Have Been Prominent Throughout History. Ancient India, China, Greece, and Japan all had lotteries. The emperor Nero had lotteries for prizes at parties.
- During the 1950s, the Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce held a number of hearings on criminal influence in the casino industry. The committee was chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, and the committee is also known by his name.
- The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.
- Poker is derived from the Persian game of "as nar" and was probably based on the dice game "tali", which was played by the Romans.
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