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You can buy tickets online for several “draw” lottery games in North Carolina. Those are games in which you pick (or have a computer pick) a series of numbers for your ticket, then winning ...
Finding money on the ground already feels like a stroke of luck. But a North Carolina man doubled up when he turned his newly-found $20 bill into a $1 million lottery win.
He advertised in the local paper, and when sales fell on a particular game, he took the unsold tickets and taped brand-new pennies to them. “Those are lucky pennies,” he’d tell his customers, who would then buy the tickets. Soon he was selling $300,000 in lottery tickets per year, pocketing about $20,000 of that in profit.
While there, he bought a ticket for the $2,000,000 Diamond Deluxe scratch-off game, officials said in a May 13 news release. It turns out, Romans’ $20 ticket was worth much more.
North Carolina, traditionally associated with the Bible Belt, was the only state on the East Coast without a lottery. The issue divided lawmakers and the public alike. At the time, the opposition of nearly every Republican and a minority of Democratic lawmakers (consisting of progressives) [2] made the passage of a lottery unlikely.
Hermeuptychia sosybius, the Carolina satyr, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.It is found in the United States from southern New Jersey south along the coast to southern Florida, west to south-eastern Kansas, central Oklahoma and central Texas.
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