Tag: Treasure Island

A gentleman from Arizona who unknowingly won the $229,368 (AED842,473) jackpot in Las Vegas has been finally reunited with his winnings.  Robert Taylor hit the jackpot at the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino earlier this year, but thanks to a software malfunction neither he nor staff were aware of his big win when it happened.  […]

Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet – Kirch’s Comet/Newton’s Comet – on this day in 1680. Did you know that: • Samuel Pepys reported the first blood transfusion (between dogs) on this day in 1666• “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published by Cassell & Co on this day in 1883• Albert Einstein […]