Word: lotto
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...short. The culture over which Titian presided for most of his long life-he died, probably of the plague, still painting, in 1576, when he may have been anything from 90 to 95-boasted an unusual number of master artists: Veronese, Jacopo Tintoretto, Giorgione, Sebastiano del Piombo, Lorenzo Lotto, Jacopo Bassano, Giovanni Battista Moroni. If one includes the architects and sculptors, such as Jacopo Sansovino and the Lombardo brothers, the decorative artists, the printmakers, then the scale of the Venetian flowering is obvious...
...lottery payoff was the largest for a single ticket yet recorded in the U.S. or Canada. To play Lotto 6/49, ticket buyers chose six numbers between 1 and 49. The prize money mounted as each drawing failed to produce a winning number. The fever touched nearly everyone. Winnipeg Art Dealer Alan de Boer seemed to say it all when, finding himself in a lottery line, he admitted, "This is unbelievable. It is against my nature...
...years old, making $225 a week replacing bulbs in a Manhattan office tower and commuting by subway from a 2½-room apartment in Brooklyn that he shared with his wife Bernice. Then Lou strung together a number-31422242529, from childhood-and gambled $1 on New York's Lotto game. Two days later Eisenberg learned he had won $5 million, reportedly the largest lottery prize in history. His first reaction: "Fifty-three years I'm eating bread, and I want to eat cake." For a guy like Lou, though, old habits die hard. After he won, he ambled...