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… trend and mainly consist in pitting lives against one another. 8 . G. S. Street, ‘The Betting Book at Brooks's’, The North American Review (vol. 173, n° 536, July 1901), p. 46. Octr. ye 5, 1743. Ld. Lincoln bets Ld. Winchelsea One hundred … intrigue, such as elections, caused a spike in the volume of bets, as did periods of great war.For instance, the American war of Independence was the object of multiple bets. 11 The same diversity of bets can be observed in minor …
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