Alaskan Lottery...

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justxploring — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:24:35 GMT

I don't think they deduct taxes, but they freeze your assets.

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LOTTOMIKE — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:55:11 GMT

imagine if alaska came out with a lottery.

the first scratch off would be called.....cool cash,lol

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pumpi76 — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:58:39 GMT

yeah that's what i meant...I was 97% quoting so every word wasn't from the book... 300 lbs of salmon LOL...

Laura Simpson from Great Lakes, Illinois deserves to be rich... She is so rare...

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justxploring — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:13:39 GMT

A $300,000 prize in 1917? Are you sure it wasn't 300 lbs of salmon?

Just kidding, Pumpi. Interesting story. I copied this from Wikipedia:

**Residents of Nenana have sponsored a lottery called the Nenana Ice Classic to pick the date and time to the closest minute when the ice covering the nearby Tanana River breaks, thus signalling the start of spring. This lottery began in 1917 when a group of surveyors working for the Alaska Railroad whiled the time they spent waiting for the ri... [ More ]

Alaskan Lottery...

pumpi76 — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:44:35 GMT

While i was reading my statistics books, i read something interesting from the factworld on the book...The books is elementary statistics 9th edition by Mario F. Triola..

I am 97% quoting:

Each spring since 1917, in the small town of Nenana (or Tanana), Alaska they had a lottery with people betting on the exact time that their Tanana River would break up...The prize is around 300,000...The way they do this is they place a tripod on the frozen river and they connect it to a clock..the clo... [ More ]