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Gettysburg casino provokes opposition
Gettysburg’s borough council voted to support a proposed slot-machine gambling parlour near the historic US Civil War battlefield in exchange for a US$1 million-per-year revenue guarantee.
The prospect of a casino just outside town and near Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsyslvania has drawn a firestorm of opposition from preservationists and some area residents.
As a result […]
Gambling Tragedy - episode from Leo Tolstoy story “Two Hussars” (Part 2).
Ilyin had just finished playing and having lost his last kopek was lying face downwards on the sofa, pulling one hair after another from its torn horsehair cover, putting them in his mouth, biting them in two and spitting them out again.
Two tallow candles, one of which had burnt down to the paper in the […]
Gambling Tragedy - episode from Leo Tolstoy story “Two Hussars”.
The uhlan cornet, Ilyin, had not long been awake. The evening before he had sat down to cards at eight o’clock and had lost pretty steadily for fifteen hours on end - till eleven in the morning. He had lost a considerable sum but did not know exactly how much, because he had about three […]
3x Zero - episode from Fedor Dostoyevsky book “The Gambler”
The distance to the casino was about half a verst, and our route led us through the Chestnut Avenue until we reached the square directly fronting the building. The General, I could see, was a trifle reassured by the fact that, though our progress was distinctly eccentric in its nature, it was, at least, correct […]
Crazy bets - episode from Fedor Dostoyevsky book “The Gambler”
Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one’s head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the […]