Canoga Mission Gallery
Canoga may refer to: Games * Canoga, a nickname for a card game called Shut the Box Places *Canoga, New York, a hamlet located in Seneca County, New York *Canoga Park, California Canoga Park is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. Before the Mexican–American War, the district was part of a Ranchos of California, rancho, and after the American victory it was converted ...

Shut The Box
Shut the box (also called ACKPOT, batten down the hatches or trick-track) is a game of dice for one or more players, commonly played in a group of two to four for stakes. Traditionally, a counting box is used with tiles numbered 1 to 9 where each can be covered with a hinged or sliding mechanism, though the game can be played with only a pair of dice, pen, and paper. Variations exist where the box has 10 or 12 tiles. History Unconfirmed histories of the game suggest a variety of origins, including 12th century Normandy (northern France) as well as the mid 20th century Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey), which one source credits to a man known as 'Chalky' Towbridge. A 1967 edition of ''Brewing Review'' describes the game as being native to the Channel Islands, and records it being played in Manchester pubs in the mid-1960s. Taylor in "Pub Games" from 1976 mentions a claim that the game dates back to at least Napoleonic times. He reports a revival in the United Kingdom ...
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Canoga, New York
Canoga is a hamlet in the Town of Fayette, Seneca County, New York, United States, along Cayuga Lake. It is located southeast of the town of Seneca Falls, at an elevation of . The primary cross roads where the hamlet is located are N.Y. Route 89 and Canoga Road (CR 121). The word Canoga, or "Ga-no-geh" as called by native Cayuga people, means "place of the sweet water".Canoga Creek Farm & Conservancy
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. Canoga and the immediate area is home to some members of the Cayuga Nation.Cayuga Nation
Retrieved Aug. 3, 2018. Nearby at Canoga Cemetery is a historical mo ...
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