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Faro (/ˈfɛəroʊ/ FAIR-oh), Pharaoh, Pharao, or
Farobank is a late 17th-century
French gambling game
using cards. It is
descended from B****et, and belongs...
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Faro Ladies is a term for
aristocratic female gamblers in the late
eighteenth century.
Gaming in
public was not
acceptable for
aristocratic women as it...
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Faro (/ˈfɑːroʊ/ FAR-oh, Portuguese: [ˈfaɾu] ) is a muni****lity, the
southernmost city and
capital of the
district of the same name, in the
Algarve region...
- 1883,
Sadie and Earp left San
Francisco for Gunnison,
where Earp ran a
Faro bank until he
received a
request in
April for ****istance from Luke
Short in...
- her—and
Wyatt left San
Francisco for Gunnison, Colorado,
where Earp ran a
Faro bank until he
received a
request in
April for ****istance from Luke
Short in...
- The Loss of the
Faro Bank; or – the Rook's Pigeon'd (1797)...
- with Tew,
among them
Joseph Bankes’
barque Portsmouth Adventure.
Bankes (or
Banks)
transferred his
commission to
Joseph Faro, who
captained the 90-ton 6-gun...
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roared into
Tombstone to
spend it
freely in the saloons, brothels, and "
faro banks". The Cowboys'
generous spending habits earned them
friends among the...
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difficulties around 1781,
until he was
admitted to a
twelfth share in Fox's
faro bank at Brooks's, with a fee of five or six
guineas an hour. The
circle surrounding...
- stealing." In 1872,
Sharkey traveled to Buffalo, New York and
invested in a
faro bank, a po****r card game in 19th-century
America but also a game
widely known...
