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gambling
Betting or staking of something of value on the outcome of a game or event. Commonly associated with gambling are horse racing, boxing, numerous card and dice games, cockfighting, jai alai, and recreational billiards and darts. Bingo and lottery also represent forms of gambling. In most gambling games it is customary to express the idea of probability in terms of "odds against winning." Casino gambling, once highly restricted, is now legal in many states, and lotteries are employed by many states to raise revenues. See also bookmaking, casino.


Roebling
German-U.S. civil engineer, a pioneer in the design of suspension bridges. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1831. His best-known work is New York's Brooklyn Bridge. In the 1850s and '60s Roebling and his son Washington (1837-1926) built four suspension bridges: two at Pittsburgh, one at Niagara Falls (1855), and one at Cincinnati (1866). When his design for a bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan was accepted, he was appointed chief engineer. He died from an injury he received as construction began. Washington completed the project in 1883; himself incapacitated from 1872 by decompression sickness, his completion of the work depended heavily on his wife, Emily Warren Roebling.

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