The World’s Biggest Lotteries

Posted on August 17th, 2010

Lotteries are one of the oldest forms of gambling known to man. All across the ancient world lotteries were played. The construction of the Great Wall of China was partially financed through lotteries. The American Revolution was financed by various lotteries and venerable educational institutions such as Harvard and Princeton were started with lottery money.  [...]

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Lottery ‘Curse’ Hits UK Family Twice

Posted on August 7th, 2010

The UK National Lottery has created many instant millionaires. The UK lottery is popular throughout the country and lottery players in the UK can buy online lottery tickets through the lottery’s official website. There are many very interesting stories related to UK lotto winners and the following story which began in 2004 with a £14 [...]

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UK National Lottery Funding Film Production

Posted on July 28th, 2010

Lottery revenues fund a wide variety of government services. In the US most states with lotteries use the money generated by lottery revenue for education and some states use lottery money for a wide variety of social services. The amount of money lotteries would make available to education was used as a selling point to [...]

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