Portal de Las Torres de Cotillas
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We are on the eve of a day of illusion, of a dream that, with golden edges, nests in the hearts of men and women who place their desires in those numbered marbles that come out of the hype thanks to the whim of a subject submitted, it is not surprising , to scrutiny, to mathematical theories of calculation of probabilities to unravel the arcana of the goddess Fortuna who nest in that fate.
The prizes to be distributed are not turkey boogers, an immensely more juicy amount than the 7,500 pesetas that were given in my grandparents' young years - which were enough to buy both house and car in the same money lot - when at the price of one " blonde "of the time bought the ticket at stake.
We Spaniards bet on the National Lottery for the substantial amount of money they can play and also for the commitment and detail of buying participations to clubs, associations, football clubs, ampas of schools and institutes, shops, bars, coffee shops, restaurants, brotherhoods and other groups moved to collect to cover expenses, various purposes of solidarity and charitable reach the most or for the human desire to bring happiness to associates, friends, customers and similar paisanaje.
We are facing an impulse to throw the lottery that, before and now, responds to desire, enthusiasm but also to sacrosanct tradition, this habit that appears with the cold crudes of the general winter, the eagles, the nativity scenes, the shops and large surfaces to overflow with decked out consumer fever, ...
Dreams of abundance, future projects, plans, purposes of a better tomorrow, eagerness to escalate from an economic-social-family position, desire to cover holes in domestic accounting, ..., all that is what entails approaching administrations of lottery that we have on hand to tempt the largest, most extraordinary and famous amount drawn throughout the year and designed to make people rich or get them out of the poverty line - we must distinguish with this nuance.
This peculiar drum and paper roulette divided into tenths and thousandths of pecuniary mana is from a Roman cradle and Murcia scholars say that Christian Alfonso was brought by King Alfonso X El Sabio back in the thirteenth century.
It would be another monarch, this time from the lineage of the Bourbons, Carlos III, who in 1764 would give the current regulatory form and regulation, a form of enrichment, a redistributive wealth policy of which the citizen who does not participate in the Tempting bet.
My paternal grandfather told me that in his years of courtship and courtship, in the thirties of the last century, the raffle was broadcast by the waves of Radio Murcia, in its primitive frequency EAJ-17, and the newspapers of the moment, "The Truth "," El Liberal "," El Tiempo "and" Levante Agrario ", covered the doors of their newsrooms - located in the Plaza de los Apóstoles, Calle Jara Carrillo, Plaza de Martínez Tornel and Calle Granero, respectively, of the capital of the Sure- with white cloth posters printed on the list of winning numbers and the pesetas that corresponded to each of them.
It only remains to tell you that you are lucky with a hype to burst balls that clash like anticipatory Christmas music.
Sources consulted:
Municipal Archive of Murcia
www.loterofilia.es
Source: JJRM
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