Kiosk in the context of "Isla Verde, Puerto Rico"

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⭐ Core Definition: Kiosk

Historically, a kiosk (from Persian kušk) was a small garden pavilion open on some or all sides common in Persia, the Indian subcontinent, and in the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century onward. Today, several examples of this type of kiosk still exist in and around the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, and they can be seen in Balkan countries.

The word is used in English-speaking countries for small booths offering goods and services. In Australia they usually offer food service. Freestanding computer terminals dispensing information are called interactive kiosks.

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👉 Kiosk in the context of Isla Verde, Puerto Rico

Isla Verde (Spanish for ''green island'') is an urbanized, beachfront resort, commercial, and residential district with various upscale hotels and condominiums in the municipality of Carolina, where the main airport of Puerto Rico, the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, is located. Named after a small cay and reef near the shoreline, Isla Verde is about 3 to 6 miles (4.8 to 9.7 km) east of the Hato Rey business center, Condado resort area, and Old San Juan historic quarter in the adjacent capital municipality of San Juan, between Los Corozos and San José Lagoons to the west and Torrecilla Lagoon to the east, which lies next to the state forest, beaches, and street food kiosks of the Piñones ("pine nuts") Afro-Puerto Rican community in the municipality of Loíza.

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Kiosk in the context of Red telephone box

The red telephone box is a telephone kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect responsible for famous sites like Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station.

The telephone box is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, its associated Crown Dependencies, the British Overseas Territories and Malta. Despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years, the traditional British red telephone kiosk can still be seen in many places throughout the UK, and in overseas territories, the Commonwealth and elsewhere around the world. The colour red was chosen to make them easy to spot.

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Kiosk in the context of Sports betting

Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome.

Sports bettors place their wagers either legally, through a sportsbook or bookmaker (colloquially known as "bookies"), or illegally through privately run enterprises. The term "book" is a reference to the books used by wage brokers to track wagers, payouts, and debts. Many legal sportsbooks are found online, operated over the Internet from jurisdictions separate from the clients they serve, usually to get around various gambling laws (such as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 in the United States) in select markets, such as Las Vegas, or on gambling cruises through self-serve kiosks. There are different types of legalized sports betting now such as game betting, parlays props and future bets. They take bets "up-front", meaning the bettor must pay the sportsbook before placing the bet. Due to the nature of their business, illegal bookies can operate anywhere but only require money from losing bettors and do not require the wagered money up front, creating the possibility of debt to the bookie from the bettor. This creates a number of other criminal elements, thus furthering their illegality.

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