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This diagnosis would also fit with Dostoevsky’s compulsive gambling, torment from frequent nightmares, and many bouts of depression.

few there be that find it.’ The path on the left leads to Hell, with a tavern and gambling house along the way; that to Heaven passes a church and Sunday ... People gather in the lower region, contemplating which path to take; that on the left is

These start with introductions and conversations during a meal, and then progress quite quickly to subjects closer to the heart of a young soldier: gambling, discussing the menu, organising the bill

Gambling has been a major part of the city’s revenue since the Portuguese government legalised it in the colony during the 1850s. ... Since then, Macau has become known worldwide as the “Monte Carlo of the Orient”, with gambling tourism from China

The rise and fall of apartheid, 654:35.b.95.16. During apartheid the government banned pornography, gambling and other such “vices”.

By the end of the 17th century it had become a significant betting sport (the 1664 Gaming Act proved futile to keep gambling in check) and in the 18.

Wood relates how opposition to gambling gradually grew and led to the casino being closed in the 1870s, not reopening until 1933.

Pursuing her, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big, just before a police raid.

Paul is a young Austrian in debt and without work or meaning, but he finds opportunity in the east, on a job with his stepfather setting up video gambling machines in

Unable to tolerate his father’s gambling and cruelty, his mother leaves home.