Quick Fact – An “Unsuitable” Combo

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1972 The brothel Ash Meadows Sky Ranch, in Lathrop Wells (today Amargosa Valley) in Nye County, accessible via an airstrip, was denied a gambling license by Nevada gaming regulators to operate four slot machines on the premises. The reason? Gambling in brothels was “unsuitable.” Map from the U.S. Geological Survey

Quick Fact – Behind the Word “Casino”

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Today A casino is a place that houses and facilitates various gambling forms, according to the English, but a casino or kasino is an officers’ mess hall to the Germans, Spanish and others. In Italian, the language of origin, the word derives from casa (house) and translates to little house. Casino first referred to a…