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R.I.P. EvelReply
Back to Story - Help Iconic daredevil Evel Knievel dies at 69 By MITCH STACY, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69. Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, sufferin
Nov 30, 2007, 5:17 pm - Jani Norman - Mystical Forum

CBS publishes second hatchet job on lotteryNews Story
News outfit intent on slamming lotteries CBS News, currently the lowest-rated broadcast network of the big three , today ran its second story in the past month attempting to dig dirt on lotteries in America. In its latest diatribe, CBS News alleges one of the oldest, most widely-spread lottery myths that lotteries prey on the poor and destitute. The problem is, the myth has been disproved time and again by long-term studies, using scientific means. (See Study proves lottery not '
Oct 8, 2007, 12:19 am - Todd - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery Corp. ignored claims of corruptionNews Story
Scandal runs deep and wide; shoddy paperwork and turning a blind eye helped permeate corruption Ontario retail store owners and their families claimed about $100 million in lottery wins between 1999 and 2006, including tens of millions of fraudulent claims ignored by the public lottery corporation, the provincial ombudsman said yesterday. In a scathing report, Andre Marin said the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is more fixated on profits than the integrity of its lottery games and
Mar 27, 2007, 7:44 am - Todd - Lottery News

Most state lottery raffle games sold outNews Story
Around the United States, Christmastime raffle games have become the hottest ticket of the year, with most of the game tickets selling out well before the drawing date. The raffle games are loosely modeled after the largest lottery game in the world, Spain's El Gordo, which gives back an unusually large 70% of all proceeds in the form of prizes, and makes many instant millionaires. Unlike traditional lotto-style games, a fixed number of tickets are sold for raffle games, and the prizes are
Dec 30, 2006, 12:18 am - Todd - Lottery News

Astrology Numbers for 10/6/06Reply
My thought: Yaaaaa it's Friday! Today is Friday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2006 with 86 to follow. The moon is full. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Mars and Pluto. Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra include: singer Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, in 1820; inventor and manufacturer George Westinghouse in 1846; tennis champion Helen Wills Moody in 1905; actr
Oct 6, 2006, 11:56 am - Jani Norman - Mystical Forum

NJ Lottery's payroll trims state takeNews Story
Part 1 of a 3-part look at the New Jersey Lottery To lottery players, the scratch-off tickets and numbers games are a fun way to pass the time and maybe strike it rich. For state government, however, the games serve a more practical purpose a big business. A significant chunk of money from the lottery goes to causes such as colleges, public schools and veterans' homes. By many measures, the system works: New Jersey ranks among the top five states in converting lottery sales to profit
Jul 25, 2006, 8:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER: "Great Star of Africa,"
he Imperial State Crown and Sovereign's Scepter rest atop the coffin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. The Scepter includes Cullinan I, also known as the Great Star of Africa, the largest colorless cut diamond in the world. It weighs more than 530 carats. The Cullinan II, weighing 105.6 carats, is the second-largest cut diamond in the world and is the centerpiece of the Imperial State Crown. I n 1905, the Premier Mine near Pretoria, South Africa, was only 2 years old, but it was al
Jan 28, 2023, 6:09 pm - eddessaknight - Mystical Forum

One of the UK's first lottery millionaires reveals how she's lived off her $3.5 million winNews Story
UK National Lottery celebrates 25 years Includes video report Next week will mark a quarter of a century since the first National Lottery draw and to mark it, we have tracked down one of the first batch of millionaires it created. The first draw was broadcast live on the BBC on 19 November 1994, with it hosted by TV favourites Noel Edmonds and Anthea Turner. The first number drawn? 30. Followed by 3, 5, 44, 14 and 22 long before the relatively recent addition of numbers 50 to 59.
Jan 8, 2020, 8:07 am - Todd - Lottery News

DO you really lose money if u take the annunity over the lump sum?Reply
FYI mediabrat, here's you bubbly blondes of Fox News: Brenda Buttner She graduated from HarvardUniversitywith honors with a bachelor's degree in social studies. Buttner went on to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where she graduated with high honors and a bachelor's degree in politics and economics. Shannon Bream She is a graduate of Liberty Universityand earned a Juris Doctorate with honors from FloridaStateUniversityCollegeof Law. Gretchen Ca
Aug 14, 2012, 7:25 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

Harve$t Moon Billionaires Club - Members OnlyReply
Facebook Creates a New Millionaire s Club And a Few Billionaires Too Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg The millionaire's club has to make room for a few more hundred people...at least. Facebook filed to go public on Wednesday and many current and former employees are expecting huge paydays. The public offering could value the social media titan between $75 billion to $100 billion and for those employees who received stock options, their personal worth could equa
Feb 27, 2012, 11:12 pm - Harve$t Moon - Mystical Forum