Infostrada Databox: November 2005  

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UK horse racing
> Horse racing has been organised in the UK since the 17th century.
> There are, however, records of horse racing in the country in Roman times.
> There are currently 59 racecourses in Britain with 17 staging only flat racing, 24 only jump racing and 18 both.
> Weather permitting, racing takes place on almost every day of the year in the UK with meetings being held on 46 Sundays in 2005.
> Horse racing is the second most popular spectator sport in the UK, after soccer.

Major League Baseball
> In October 2005, the Chicago White Sox won the World Series for the first time since 1917.
> The 88-year-long drought had ranked second only to the 97-year wait that the crosstown Cubs are suffering.
> The White Sox’s 4-0 rout of the Houston Astros marked the 19th time in history the World Series have been swept.
> The White Sox became the 12th franchise in the league to have won the title at least three times.
> The team that has won the most league championships (26) are the New York Yankees, most recently in 2000.

Poker
> Poker is a card game for two players and up, usually revolving around predetermined stakes.
> A regular poker game consists of players trying to create the best possible five card hand.
> The most superior hand in Poker is a Royal Flush, which is a sequence of A-K-Q-J-10 in the same suit.
> The odds of drawing a Royal Flush from a regular 52 card deck are roughly 650,000 to 1.
> Poker is the main theme in the 1998 film Rounders, which features former World Champion Johnny Chan.

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