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It Really Happened! Gambling History Blog - Author Doresa Banning

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Fabulous Subscribers,

Just a quick note to inform you we’re taking the summer off from developing new blog posts for It Really Happened!

We’ll be back in September, rejuvenated and reinvigorated, with fresh content, so please stay tuned.</spa...

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Lake 1939

With the recent discoveries of dead bodies there, Lake Mead in Southern Nevada has been in the news.

The 1.5 million acres encompassing this water body and its environs have been a designated national recreation area since 1964, but a por...

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