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	The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
		The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
		Ronald Colman's a White Russian émigré working as a Monte Carlo cab driver.
		When he breaks the bank at the casino the managers plan to use him for publicity - but he has other ideas.
	www.themave.com /htf/manwhobroke.html (54 words)

	Monte Carlo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monte Carlo is home to most of the Circuit de Monaco, on which takes place the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ; it also hosts world championship boxing bouts, the Monte Carlo Masters, fashion shows and other events.
		In statistics, the Monte Carlo method is a class of sampling algorithms which rely on stochastic ("random") simulation.
		Monte Carlo - Fullscreen 360 degree Quicktime VR Panorama
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monte_Carlo (266 words)

	Monte Carlo biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Monte Carlo is a very wealthy section of the city-state of Monaco known for its gambling, beaches, casino, glamour, and sightings of famous people.
		Technically the bank in this sense is the money held by the croupier: according to an article in The Times in the late 19th century, it was thus possible to break the bank several times.
		Many people think that Monte Carlo is the capital of the country Monaco, but Monaco is its own capital : the city and the state boundary overlap each other, and Monte Carlo is only a district of Monaco.
	monte-carlo.biography.ms (215 words)

	Encyclopedia: Monte Carlo, Monaco
		Monte Carlo is home to most of the Circuit de Monaco, on which takes place the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ; it also hosts world championship boxing bouts, fashion shows and other events.
		Many people think that Monte Carlo is the capital of the country Monaco, but Monaco is its own capital : the city and the state boundary overlap each other, and Monte Carlo is only a district of Monaco.
		In statistics, the Monte Carlo method is a class of sampling algorithms.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Monte-Carlo,-Monaco (269 words)

	Joseph Jaggers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Joseph Jaggers ( 1830 â“ 1892) was a British engineer, popularly known as the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.
		He extended his experience to the behaviour of a roulette wheel, speculating that its outcomes were not purely random numbers but that mechanical imbalances might result in biases towards particular outcomes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_man_who_broke_the_bank_at_Monte_Carlo (208 words)

	PISA - LoveToKnow Article on PISA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As a Ghibelline chief of valour and renown he was abb to restore the military prestige of the Pisans, who under his corn mand captured Lucca and defeated the Florentines at Montecatin on the 29th of August 1315.
		The latter, a man of inferior ability and daring, sold Pisa to the count of Virtfl, receiving in exchange 200,000 forms, Piombino, and the islands of Elba, Pianosa and Monte Cristo.
		Soderini, who was perpetual gonfalonier of Florence, and Machiavelli, the secretary of the Ten, urged on the war.
	23.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PI/PISA.htm (4677 words)

	The Man Who Could Not Lose Page 10
		On arriving at the theatre they found their host had reserved a stage-box, and as there were but four in their party, and as, when they entered, the house lights were up, their arrival drew upon them the attention both of those in the audience and of those on the stage.
		To the audience and to the performers the man who always won was of far greater interest than what for the three-hundredth night was going forward on the stage.
		And when the leading woman, Blanche Winter, asked the comedian which he would rather be, "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo or the Man Who Can Not Lose?" she gained from the audience an easy laugh and from the chorus an excited giggle.
	www.web-books.com /Classics/Stories/Davis2/Davis2C3P10.htm (786 words)

	Jaggers at Monte Carlo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The old vaudeville song "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" was not specifically about Joseph Jaggers, but it might have been.
		Jaggers was an engineer from Yorkshire, England, who first visited the Casino of Monte Carlo in 1873.
		Taking an engineering approach to the roulette wheels as he was accustomed to doing with respect to his cotton machine spindles back in Yorkshire, Jaggers questioned the balance and symmetry of these devices.
	www25.brinkster.com /ranmath/jaggers.htm (307 words)

	The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
		This time he broke the bank a dozen times and won half a million francs which was a fortune in those days.
		In those days in Monte Carlo, a fl cloth used to be draped over the table when all the cash chips had been won.
		Today when the bank is broken in a casino, the float is quickly re-filled with the minimum of fuss.
	www.casinonet.netfirms.com /wells.htm (493 words)

	Lucky Stiff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Based on The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth.
		Mark S. Cartier, who plays Harry, can't get his mouth around the requisite English accent and seems generally miscast, and Natalie Brown, as the short-sighted gun-toting Rita, overplays maniacally, but the rest of the company earned my compassion.
		Two of her sketches are memorable: the weepy secretary who brings Harry together with Uncle Tony's corpse (played, with deadpan humor, by Dared Wright) and an inebriated maid at the hotel in Monte Carlo.
	www.worcesterphoenix.com /archive/theater/97/12/05/LUCKY_STIFF.html (616 words)

	Monte Carlo
		• Monte Carlo is a section of the city-state of Monaco known for its gambling, beaches, and sightings of famous people.
		Monte Carlo has been host of the Monaco Grand Prix, world championship boxing bouts, fashion shows and other events.
		Monte Carlo is also a class of sampling algorithms.
	www.shopcont.com /monte-carlo.htm (278 words)

	Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gilbert reports that, in 1891, Monte Carlo hired a man to toss money about in the streets of London, describing himself as the man who broke the bank.
		According to Geller, the man who tossed the money was Arthur DeCourcy Bower, who died poor, but Geller mentions his hiring by Monte Carlo officials as a mere possibility.
		NLScotland claims that the song was instead inspired by the success of Joseph obson Jagger (died 1892), who reportedly won a million pounds in Monte Carlo in 1875.
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/SRW136.html (261 words)

	Musical Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The song was inspired by Arthur DeCourcey Bower who was hired by Monte Carlo casinos to go about London as a profligate dandy and to bill himself as the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.
		This young man’s shadow disturbed Joyce, a notoriously jealous man who liked to fancy himself betrayed, for all his life.
		The Wake is named after the old stage-Irish song about a drunkard who falls to his death from a scaffold, only to be brought back to life when whisky is spilled on him during a racket at his wake.
	www.bloomsdaycabaret.com /pages/musical_notes.html (1532 words)

	The Man Who Couldn't Lose - Chapter III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Men and boys who when they wagered five and ten dollars were risking their all, found in the sight of a young man offering bets in hundreds and thousands a thrilling and fascinating spectacle.
		In their eyes a man who alone was able and willing to wipe the name of a horse off the flboards was a hero.
		There was hardly a person at the track who did not back the luck of the man who "could not lose." And when Ambitious won easily, it was not the horse or the jockey that was cheered, but the young man in the box.
	www.worldwideschool.com /library/books/lit/adventure/TheManWhoCouldntLose/chap3.html (4519 words)

	Gambling Syndicates Monte Carlo Edited
		Note: Our research and interpretation of his methology was gleaned from various articles and archives around the era of the late 1890's.
		Monte Carlo was then, a haven for royalty, and he was regarded as of no importance until he started winning
		"The man who broke the bank of Monte Carlo" is a song that was written about him.
	www.ty10.net /gambling/gamcarlo.html (426 words)

	Fallacies [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I know we will hire any man who gets over a 70 percent on the screening test for hiring Post Office employees, but women should have to get an 80 to be hired because they often have to take care of their children.
		Guilt by association is a version of the ad hominem fallacy in which a person is said to be guilty of error because of the group he or she associates with.
		A reasoner who suggests that a claim is true, or false, merely because he or she strongly hopes it is, is committing the fallacy of wishful thinking.
	www.iep.utm.edu /f/fallacies.htm (13277 words)

	The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		IMDb > The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
		When he manages to break the bank at the casino, the casino directors are delighted: surely the publicity will bring more suckers (I mean gamblers) to the tables.
		(Surprisingly, Colman falls for this: he's just been widely publicised as a man with a potful of casino winnings, yet he assumes that Bennett is interested in him for himself.) It's no spoiler to reveal that she genuinely falls for him.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0026671 (522 words)

	GrandPrix.com > Features > Globetrotter > My love affair with Monaco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		By the 1920s Monte Carlo was the epitome of glamour and excitement and the establishment of the Monaco Grand Prix in 1929 added the final touch.
		Yes, it isn't that exciting to look at old blokes who have spent too long in the sun wandering about with girls who really should be their daughters and are only in it for the money - but that it what they want.
		And I defy anybody who says that they can go down to the harbour in the evening and watch and listen as the beautiful people play their games and not be impressive.
	www.grandprix.com /ft/ft11222.html (1091 words)

	Monte Carlo Casino :: I love Monte Carlo
		âThe manâ was Joseph Jaggers, a British engineer, who in 1873 discovered and capitalized a bias in one of the casino's roulette wheels, raising the amount of $450.000, a very impressive sum at that time.
		The renowned Monte Carlo Casino has a special architecture, a work of art worth seeing even if you are not a gambler and enter the Casino for this alone.
		The slot machines achieved increased popularity in Monte Carlo Casino with the invention of the jackpot in 1930s.
	www.ilovemontecarlo.com /learn/monte-carlo-casino.html (411 words)

	Macomb Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Calendar
		There's the young, avant-garde playwright who's in love with the beautiful naive country girl; his elegant and arrogant actress mother who's in love with a charming novelist, who seduces the young girl.
		There's a crass, self-destructive young woman who's in love with the young playwright; and her married mother who's in love with the local doctor.
		These and other pining souls of this multi-triangle love story bound their way toward a riveting climax as the young playwright is forced to make the ultimate personal sacrifice when his eyes are opened to the blindness of the living, breathing world beyond his work.
	www.macomb.lib.il.us /macvb?calMonth=3-2005 (2332 words)

	UK Casino Times - In The Money - The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
		He had the idea of testing the roulette wheels at the Beaux Arts Casino, Monte Carlo, to see whether they were as evenly balanced as it was claimed.
		Never a man to do things by halves, Jaggers hired six men to secretly note down the numbers that the wheels brought up over a period of 12 hours a day, over six consecutive days' gaming.
		From The Man That Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo, by Fred Gilbert
	www.casinotimes.co.uk /articles/2005-08/inthemoney-180805.htm (627 words)

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		For those who are working on scientific software projects, GSL looks to be a great way to gain a huge step forward.
		Contrast this to the employees of a commercial firm, who are constrained by their desire to look good to superiors.
		I don't see the people who make the tools used to build cars lining up to whine about their names not being on the cars built with them.
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	Broadside ballad entitled 'The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo'
		Broadside ballad entitled 'The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo'
		It is believed to have been inspired by Joseph Hobson Jagger, an engineer from Little Horton in Bradford, who won one million pounds playing roulette in Monte Carlo in July, 1875.
		Jagger died in 1892 and is buried in Bethel graveyard, between Bradford and Halifax.
	www.nls.uk /broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15048 (157 words)

	THE MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO
		THE MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO Charles Coburn - 1932 I've just got here, thro' Paris, from the sunny southern shore; I to Monte Carlo went, just to raise my winter's rent.
		I patronized the tables at the Monte Carlo hell Till they hadn't got a sou for a Christian or a Jew; So I quickly went to Parie for the charms of mad'moiselle, Who's the load-stone of my heart.
		CHORUS As I walk along the Bois Boolong, with an independent air, You can hear them sigh and wish to die, You can see them wink the other eye, At the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.
	lyricsplayground.com /alpha/songs/t/themanwhobrokethebankatmontecarlo.html (208 words)

	Monte Casino History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Elegant Monte Carlo Resort and Casino with its Mediterranean theme is located South Strip with 3,002 rooms and 259 luxury suites.
		Three years later "Monte Carlo" was built and became one of the most eminent and grand casinos in the world.
		The casino set the standards for roulette in Europe, and roulette remained exclusive to Monte Carlo until...
	www.best-ranked-casinos-online.co.uk /casinos/monte_casino_history.html (515 words)

	Gambling :: I love Monte Carlo
		The story of the Monte Carlo Casino and the games you can play when you go there.
		Explains why the Monte Carlo Casino is so famous all over the world.
		The story of Joseph Jaggers, the man who is supposed to have broken the bank at Monte Carlo casino in 1873.
	www.ilovemontecarlo.com /sites/monte-carlo-casino.html (105 words)

	Noesis #176
		What is proposed is that issues be both e-mailed to those who wish to have them available on their own computers and displayed on our website (this is the same way that Ron's last few issues have been handled).
		There are about five people who are paid up for more hard-copy issues than would be published under this proposal, and that will have to be taken into account also.
		Stan and I were part of a larger circle of friends who used to play in a wild area not far from Stan’s house.
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		Lou portrayed Chavez Y Chavez, a mexican indian, who he described as "a killer, a savage and at the same time very mystical, the quiet one." Next up Lou joined Ed O' Neill as a inept bank robber in the comedy Disorganized Crime.
		When the dedicated family man isn't spending time with his girls he loves listening to music, surfing the web, football (Chris is a long-suffering supporter of Watford FC) and is addicted to his Playstation.
		Ince, who will remain as club captain, added: "When last season came to an end I felt a lot better physically than I had done for the previous two years, so it was not as hard a decision to come back this year.
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