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- Look up wager in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wager can refer to: Wager, the amount of a valuable staked when gambling on an event with an uncertain...1 KB (228 words) - 23:11, 20 May 2023
Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and...50 KB (6,505 words) - 10:48, 27 May 2024
Wager Mutiny took place in 1741, after the British warship HMS Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of present-day Chile. Wager...63 KB (9,104 words) - 19:38, 18 May 2024- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is the fifth nonfiction book by American journalist David Grann. The book focuses on the Wager Mutiny...9 KB (749 words) - 04:29, 26 March 2024
Wager Island (Spanish: Isla Wager) is an uninhabited island in Guayaneco Archipelago, a remote part of western Patagonia. Located 1,600 kilometres (990...27 KB (2,533 words) - 20:27, 26 May 2024
Taylor Wager FRS (11 March 1862 – 17 November 1929) was a British botanist and mycologist. He was the uncle of the geologist Lawrence Rickard Wager. He was...2 KB (191 words) - 15:54, 24 May 2021
HMS Wager was a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship of 28 guns. It was built as an East Indiaman in about 1734 and made two voyages to India for...17 KB (2,129 words) - 19:30, 15 May 2024- The Simon–Ehrlich wager was a 1980 scientific wager between business professor Julian L. Simon and biologist Paul Ehrlich, betting on a mutually agreed-upon...15 KB (2,014 words) - 16:35, 23 May 2024
Michael Wager (born Emanuel Weisgal, April 29, 1925 – December 26, 2011[citation needed]) was an American film and television actor. Wager was born in...4 KB (317 words) - 03:02, 13 March 2024- Atheist's wager, coined by the philosopher Michael Martin and published in his 1990 book Atheism: A Philosophical Justification, is an atheistic response to Pascal's...4 KB (518 words) - 00:48, 26 March 2024
- name HMS Wager. Another was planned but later cancelled: HMS Wager (1739) was a 24-gun sixth rate purchased in 1739 and wrecked in 1741. HMS Wager (1744)...818 bytes (145 words) - 14:02, 24 December 2021
- Anthony A. Wager (24 June 1932 – 23 December 1990) was an English actor and television writer. Wager is best known for portraying the role of the young...5 KB (409 words) - 03:27, 2 April 2024
Gambling (redirect from Gambling wager)requires three elements to be present: consideration (an amount wagered), risk (chance), and a prize. The outcome of the wager is often immediate, such...43 KB (4,828 words) - 06:49, 18 May 2024
Charles Wager PC (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1733 to 1742...37 KB (4,626 words) - 17:21, 27 May 2024- had to lay down a legal wager at the preliminary hearing, probably to discourage frivolous litigation. In some cases, if the party lost, the wager went...6 KB (975 words) - 11:54, 7 April 2024
Wager's Action was a naval confrontation on 8 June 1708 N.S. (28 May O.S.), between a British squadron under Charles Wager and the Spanish treasure fleet...13 KB (1,404 words) - 14:52, 26 May 2024- Wager is a 2013 science fiction novel by American author Zoltan Istvan. The novel follows the life of Jethro Knights, a philosopher whose efforts to promote...10 KB (881 words) - 05:29, 6 April 2024
- Form 730, Tax on Wagering, is used to compute excise taxes for both legal and illegal wagers of certain types. For state authorized wagers placed with bookmakers...612 bytes (82 words) - 12:39, 10 August 2017
- Lawrence Rickard Wager, commonly known as Bill Wager, (5 February 1904 – 20 November 1965) was a British geologist, explorer and mountaineer, described...14 KB (1,388 words) - 05:42, 13 May 2024
- Walter Herman Wager (September 4, 1924 – July 11, 2004) was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist and former editor-in-chief of Playbill magazine...11 KB (1,040 words) - 21:28, 1 January 2024
- make oath. Pascal's wager wager a dollar to a donut wager a dollar to a doughnut wager-boat wager of battel, wager of battle wager of law a stake; a pledge
- 58 Wager, Charles by John Knox Laughton 647618Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 58 — Wager, Charles1899John Knox Laughton WAGER, Sir
- Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary
- association of professional wager matches to gambling and drinking.[4] In the early nineteenth century, gentlemen rowers began to distance themselves from