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A lottery is a form of gambling which involves selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random. Lotteries are outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing their own national (state) lottery.
The National Lottery was introduced to South Africa on 11 March 2000. At the time it was run by Uthingo. [citation needed]After a marketing effort that aimed to reach 80 percent of South African homes directly [5] more than 800,000 tickets were sold in the first day of availability [6] Nearly R70 million worth of tickets were sold in the first three weeks of operation.
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz [1] defeated Daniil Medvedev in a rematch of the previous year's final, 7–6 (7–5), 6–1 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2024 Indian Wells Open. [2]
German submarine U-749 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine built for service during World War II. Her keel was laid down on 28 September 1942 by Schichau-Werke of Danzig . She was commissioned on 14 August 1943 with Tenente di vascello Alberto Longhi in command.
NASCAR-bound New Zealander Shane van Ginsbergen has won Australia’s most-prestigious auto race, the Bathurst 1000, for the second straight year and third time overall. Van Ginsbergen and Kiwi co ...
King Aistulf of the Lombards. Year 749 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 749th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 749th year of the 1st millennium, the 49th year of the 8th century, and the 10th and last year of the 740s decade.The denomination 749 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini ...
Other cases were now springing up in Texas and California. And state attorneys general were jumping into the act, apparently preparing their own qui tam cases. Through 2007 and 2008, each quarterly financial disclosure Johnson & Johnson filed with the SEC brought news of more subpoenas from state prosecutors.
John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, [a] was an Assyrian Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist.He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, on 4 December AD 749. [5]