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If “the house always wins”, how do professional gamblers make a living?
Grace Benham,
Poole, Dorset, UK
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Christopher Columbus’s expeditions to the Americas brought tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, beans, squash and maize to Europe, but what about the other way? What crops grew in Europe that Native Americans didn’t have? And what crops were present on both sides at that time?
Eric Kvaalen,
Les Essarts-le-Roi, France
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