Roulette: The game of remarkable comebacks

Written by Shawn Tinling


In casino gambling, sometimes evenrepparttar most knowledgable players turn to blind luck to make it through their day. Of course, luck can never be relied on; either things will gorepparttar 109804 right way for you or they won't. The great thing about casino gambling is that luck has to be with you for only a moment to make a difference in what could've easily been a bad day.

Roulette is, in my opinion,repparttar 109805 best game to play where you can turn blind luck into a great casino story to tell your friends.

Recently, my family dragged me down torepparttar 109806 casinos of Atlantic City. I'm not going to lie to you - I wasn't feeling very lucky and would've much preferred to stay home. Since I was 'forced' to go, my goal was to go into hiding, play slow and steady, kill time and grind it out until my folks were ready to come back home. I thought I had everything covered.

Well, I spent a little time atrepparttar 109807 $10 craps tables, but mostly I played $20 pai gow and then some $15 blackjack. I couldn't forrepparttar 109808 life of me get anything going and instead of treading water, I was bleeding moneyrepparttar 109809 whole afternoon. After about 4 hours I was down $435, which could've been worse but it was obviously far fromrepparttar 109810 result I wanted.

I was close to broke and ready to go home as I met back up with my family. Suddenly I had a crazy idea. "I have to do one more thing before we go. I've gotta go torepparttar 109811 roulette table." My family gave me an indifferent shrug and followed, as they're mostly slot players and all table games are Greek to them.

The plan was to throw down a few more bucks and try to get back allrepparttar 109812 money I lost in one shot. I went overrepparttar 109813 math in my head as I walked over torepparttar 109814 roulette table. I was down $435, so I knew a $40 bet at 11-1 could get me back to even. Hopefully.

I found a roulette table and gave $40 torepparttar 109815 dealer, to which she handed me 8 red nickels. I reached and put allrepparttar 109816 chips on '28 Street'. (It's a three number bet - either 28, 29 or 30 would win for me.) The dealer spun, I stood nearrepparttar 109817 roulette wheel, and prayed!

The ball slowed down and bounced aroundrepparttar 109818 wheel for several tense seconds as I rooted for one of my three numbers. It popped into number 2 and stayed there for a moment - and then dropped intorepparttar 109819 number two slots over.

Conspiracies: The Pyramid and the Sphinx

Written by Steven N. Ng


Egypt has long beenrepparttar source of countless conspiracies, ranging from ancient lost civilizations to extraterrestrial markers. The reason for this focus is likely because Egypt isrepparttar 109803 most romanticized ancient civilization, and also because it is home torepparttar 109804 mystical Great Pyramid of Giza,repparttar 109805 only surviving Wonder ofrepparttar 109806 Ancient World. This article will describe some ofrepparttar 109807 conspiracies surroundingrepparttar 109808 Sphinx andrepparttar 109809 Pyramid.

The Riddle ofrepparttar 109810 Sphinx

Most ofrepparttar 109811 conspiracy theories revolving aroundrepparttar 109812 Sphinx usually involve its age. The Sphinx is generally accepted to have been built along withrepparttar 109813 Pyramids of Giza around 2500 BC. It is even accepted thatrepparttar 109814 face ofrepparttar 109815 Sphinx bearsrepparttar 109816 likeness of Khafre (Chephren),repparttar 109817 Pharaoh during that time.

However, there was no written record from that era regardingrepparttar 109818 Sphinx or its construction. In addition,repparttar 109819 human head ofrepparttar 109820 Sphinx is small in relation torepparttar 109821 rest ofrepparttar 109822 body, indicating thatrepparttar 109823 head bearing Pharaoh Khafre's likeness could have been carved out of a larger lion's head. These points led some researchers to believe thatrepparttar 109824 Sphinx could have been built much earlier by a more ancient civilization, thus starting a whole host of conspiracy theories.

Geologist Dr. Robert Schoch and author John Anthony West made a case thatrepparttar 109825 erosion marks onrepparttar 109826 Sphinx appears not to be made by wind or sand, but by water, such as falling rain. They used evidence of other structures inrepparttar 109827 Giza area to prove their point. If this were true,repparttar 109828 construction ofrepparttar 109829 Sphinx could then be dated back to at least 5000 BC, whenrepparttar 109830 area still received substantial rainfall, in contrast to desert conditions later on.

In his official website, Director ofrepparttar 109831 Giza Monuments Dr. Zahi Hawass provides various points suggesting thatrepparttar 109832 evidence used in proving Dr. Schoch's theory is flawed.

Adding torepparttar 109833 conspiracies surroundingrepparttar 109834 age ofrepparttar 109835 Sphinx, writers Graham Hancock and Robert Buvaul provide evidence in their book Message ofrepparttar 109836 Sphinx thatrepparttar 109837 creation ofrepparttar 109838 Sphinx and Pyramids can be pushed back as far as 10,500 BC using astronomical data.

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