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Lucky Spaniard scoops 126 million-euro lottery jackpot

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MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - A lucky ticket holder in Spain has won a 126 million-euro ($171.6 million) jackpot in the EuroMillions lottery, the British Sky News television reported on Saturday.
The record prize, if the ticket was bought by a single person rather than a syndicate, would be the world's biggest lottery win, Sky News said. The winner has not yet come forward.

EuroMillions is a pan-European lottery, launched in 2004. Initially only the United Kingdom, France and Spain were involved, but lotteries from Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland joined the draw in October 2007.

Draws are held every Friday night, and take place in Paris. A standard EuroMillions ticket costs 2 euros per line played. All prizes, including the jackpot, are tax exempt, except in Switzerland, and are paid in a lump sum.

Russia launched its Gosloto, the first state lottery since the Soviet era, in 2008 to help raise funds for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort Sochi and to promote sport and a healthy lifestyle.

A man from Kolpino, near St. Petersburg, won 100 million rubles, or nearly $3 million, in March this year.

UK pair win £90 million EuroMillions jackpot

UK pair win £90 million EuroMillions jackpot
Lotto prize is British record-breaker

TWO British ticketholders shared a massive £90 million jackpot in the EuroMillions draw, Camelot revealed today.

They scooped £45,570,835.50 each – the largest lottery prizes ever paid out in the UK.

A National Lottery spokeswoman said: “This is fantastic news.

“These two ticketholders have just banked the largest lottery prizes ever paid out in the country.”

Winning numbers in the EuroMillions draw were 11, 19, 34, 43 and 45. The Lucky Star numbers were 5 and 9.

According to the Queen’s bankers Coutts & Co, each winner would earn about £6,000 a day in interest on the estimated jackpot, or £45,000 a week and £2,350,000 a year.

Until now, the largest UK lottery win had been scooped by Glasgow postal administrator Angela Kelly.

She won the £35.4 million EuroMillions jackpot in August last year.

Dolores McNamara from Ireland is still the biggest European winner, netting £77 million in July 2005.

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Aesop's Fables
People throughout the world are familiar with the fables attributed to Aesop.People told and retold these stories for over nine hundred year before they were first written down in the third century A.D.The fables are full of useful advice for people everywhere.They have been adapted to appeal to both young and old.Many people think that a person's education is incomplete without them.Because they are so well known,we easily recognize and understand sayings like"Slow and steady wins the race" and "Persuasing is better than force."The three fables given here are typical of those written by Aesop.They are short,have human interest, and point out an important lesson to lean.
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No man is an island

No man is an island is a well-known line from John Donne's Devolons,written more than three hundred years ago.His meaning then is still valid today.No one can live a completely isolated life.Without other people,life becomes empty and sad.We all need to have friends.
For some of us,though,making friends is not easy.Feeling shy, we may hesitate ta make the first move.It is also difficult at times to keep the friends we already have.Many people ask themselves,"What am I doing wrong? How can I make more people like me?
There are many books about friendship,but Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, written in 1936, is the moust famous.A "how to book about dealing with other people,it became an instant best seller.It was later translated into twenty-eight languages.
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Georgia man with flood damaged home wins lottery


A quarter-million dollar Georgia Lottery prize will help one Mableton family rebuild their lives following the metro Atlanta area's historic flooding last month.

Michael Sussmann, 38, won $250,000 playing the instant game Millionaire Jumbo Bucks.

"I'm feeling much better," said a visibly overjoyed Sussmann. "I don't think it has sunk in. I'm still in awe."

Sussmann and his wife, Cassie, together have three children, ages 11, 10 and eight. The couple, whose home received tremendous water damage, plans to purchase a new home.

"Before we won, we were trying to figure out what to do," he shared. "After the flood, all you could see was the roof. It was devastating. We salvaged what we could."

Gateway Newsstand #293 in Atlanta's Cumberland Mall sold the winning ticket.

"I said, 'Oh my goodness,' " he recalled. "I almost fell out."

Millionaire Jumbo Bucks is an instant game with cash prizes up to $2.5 million.
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1 November 09

Euro Millions lottery

Jun. 18, 2009, 10:33 a.m.
Euro Millions: Euro Millions lottery winner is gardener and 'nice chap'

Onion-growing granddad Brian Caswell will jet to Rio and buy a flash car after claiming a £25 million (US$40.8 million) Euro Millions lottery jackpot.
But the 74-year-old, who won half the Euro Millions jackpot last Friday, said he and wife Joan, 72, would not move far from their modest home in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
CCTV footage captured the happy winner punching the air at his local newsagent on learning he had won on Saturday.
He is Britain's third-biggest Lotto winner ever — and the biggest solo winner to go public.
Today the couple spoke of their win, which will secure the futures of their two daughters and four grandchildren.
"I travelled a lot for work but never got to go to South America and I have always wanted to go to Rio,", Caswell said.
"Joan isn't a keen flyer but it will be much easier to persuade her now we can afford to go in the front of the plane. Also, I would like to stand at the foot of Everest. I once flew over it and would love to see it from the other end."
The retired export manager said he will also splurge on a new Range Rover Vogue.
However Joan revealed she is contemplating spending a fortune on getting her hair and make-up done.
Brian and Joan have two daughters — Helen, 47 and Angela, 45. The grandad learned he had won £24,951,269.40 in Friday's Euro Millions when he popped into his newsagent to check his Lucky Dip ticket on Saturday morning.
The pensioners want to move to a farm with stables and enough property for the whole family, but they insisted they want to stay nearby.
"This is a family win," Caswell said. "Both my daughters are horse fanatics and would love to have a house with a stable. "I will look to get a farm somewhere else with three houses where we can all live."
"It will transform all our lives and it is a lovely feeling to know that we can help out all the people close to our hearts."
Caswell revealed the reaction of his local shopkeeper when he handed in the lucky ticket.
Speaking to international media this week, he said, "I had won £10 the week before so walked in all confident and said to the lad 'I'm on a roll — here's another winner'.
"When he scanned the ticket his mouth dropped open and he went a little ashen. He called for his boss to verify the numbers and told me to contact Camelot [company that operates the U.K. National Lottery].
"I didn't have my glasses on so I couldn't even read the numbers on the ticket he gave me, so I headed home to get it into focus."
The new multi-millionaire was so excited he then struggled to get in touch with Camelot and had to phone his youngest daughter to come over and help him.
After going through security checks, the family were told they had won a staggering £24,951,269.40 (US$40,777,916.04).
After scooping the jumbo jackpot Brian went straight to his prize-winning garden and let the news sink in before telling his astonished family.
Caswell's brother-in-law Ray Flanaghan, 65, said, "He went to the garden to collect his thoughts. He hadn't told the others there he'd won and they were all saying, 'I bet the person who had won last night's jackpot wouldn't be digging holes now — but of course he was. Brian loves his garden."
Brian is chairman of the local Harpers Lane Allotment Society.
The patch he rents from the council for £40 a year has won "best-looking" allotment [garden] five years running. A sign proclaims "Dad's garden".
Joan, 71, has one saying "Mum's Garden" on the next plot — which boasts flowers and a miniature wishing well.
Brian — a retired sales director for a brewery firm — and Joan received their monster check today after Brian refused anonymity.
The friend — who lives near Brian's semi — said: "I'm sure he'll share the money amongst his children. This isn't the sort of bloke who is going to blow it on a fleet of Ferraris.
"It couldn't have happened to a nicer chap.
Just weeks ago — as Brian recovered from pneumonia — he and his wife celebrated their golden wedding. They asked for no gifts — urging charity donations instead. They raised £235 for Guide Dogs For the Blind and £200 for the Alzheimer's Society.
Newsagent Mehboob Bawa, 46, checked the ticket for him. He said, "Brian's a lovely old boy. His wife's lovely as well."
He and a winner thought to live in Ireland split the £50 million jackpot. Both had numbers 6, 14, 16, 34 and 50, with lucky stars 6 and 4.
Dad-of-two Brian was said to be "literally shaking" ahead of today's Euro Millions champagne reception at a hotel.
Another friend said, "The amount was almost too much to take in."
Lottery officials wanted to spirit him into hiding on Saturday. But he went ahead with a Sunday afternoon party for one of his daughters in his garden. Camelot finally got to whisk him away on Monday.
Grandson James said, "I was told he'd won something — but presumed it was a tenner [£10] like the week before."
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