In brief - East Lake County
BREAKFAST BINGO | Crown Point Adults can meet at 8:30 a.m. July 10 for a hearty breakfast and bingo at the Crown Point Civic Center, 101 S. East St. Crown Point Parks and Recreation Department will serve eggs, toast, sausage, milk, coffee and juice, followed by bingo games with prizes. Cost is $7 and deadline to register is July 3.
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Do you know that:
- At land-based casinos, both the player and the boxman need to be on the lookout for crooked dice in the game of craps. Each number when added together with the number on the side opposite it, will add up to 7. For example, 6 is opposite to 1. When the dice are crooked, they do not add up to 7.
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
- 1993: Steve Wynn buys the Dune Hotel, then implodes it to make way for the Bellagio. The new MGM Grand is completed, once again becoming the world's largest hotel. On December 31, Barbra Streisand stars in the inaugural concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
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