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Now it’s time to show you what the Panama’s National Lottery uses each week to pick the winning prizes before a live audience.  It’s perhaps the most popular event in Panama after the Carnivals.  Gambling in Panama is taken very seriously.
In my opinion, it’s the only equipment for this specific activity in the world.  Of [...]

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It wasn’t what the world had expected.  Susan Boyle, the 48 old woman who took the singing world by storm was not able to obtain the first place last Saturday in the U.K.
Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle, who won a worldwide audience after her rendition of “I Dreamed A Dream” became a hit on YouTube, [...]

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Tomorrow, the most emblematic icon of the U.K. will celebrate its 150th anniversary.  Of course I’m referring to the huge clock located at the famous tower of London’s Parliament Building.
It’s a birthday the world can celebrate. The peals of London’s favorite clock are carried globally by BBC radio, and its 314-foot-high tower, roughly 16 stories, [...]

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Yesterday I thought I would write today about the equipment used by the Panama National Lottery which is unique to this country.  But now I have seconds thoughts.  I think it would be more appropriate to include a post about the people who congregate each week to witness the drawings rowing for first prize.
One of [...]

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A Child’s Prayer

”Dear God:
Please send clothes for all those poor ladies in Daddy’s computer.
Amen”
Good Day!  

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This post is about the signs you will see when you visit the premises of Panama’s National Lottery (Loterìa Nacional de Beneficiencia).  These signs are important because they appear on national television when the weekly drawings take place on Wednesdays and Sundays.
I would say these signs are the most popular images in the country.  In [...]

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During my recent visit to the installations of the National Lottery, I was lucky to find the cutest little girls at the entrance of the site.  After taking their pictures and enjoying them at home, I wondered what would these little girls be doing in the next twenty years?
Would one of them go into politics [...]

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