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Jack (playing card)

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A jack or knave is a playing card which, in traditional French and English decks, pictures a man in the traditional or historic aristocratic dress generally associated with Europe of the 16th or 17th century. [1]

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AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

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Ace

An ace is a playing card, die or domino with a single pip.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

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All Fours

All Fours, also known as High-Low-Jack or Seven Up, is an English tavern trick-taking card game that was popular as a gambling game until the end of the 19th century.

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Đorđe Balašević

Đorđe Balašević (Ђорђе Балашевић, born 11 May 1953) is a prominent Serbian and former Yugoslav singer-songwriter.

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Belote

Belote is a 32-card trick-taking game played in France and Bulgaria, and is one of the most popular card games in those countries.

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Bezique

Bezique or Bésigue is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Chanson de geste

The chanson de geste, Old French for "song of heroic deeds" (from gesta: Latin: "deeds, actions accomplished"), is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Cribbage

Cribbage, or crib, is a card game traditionally for two players, but commonly played with three, four or more, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points.

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Doppelkopf

See also: Operation Doppelkopf Doppelkopf (lit. double-head), sometimes abbreviated to Doko, is a trick-taking card game for four players.

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Egyptian Ratscrew

Egyptian Ratscrew (also known as Egyptian Ratslap, Egyptian Ratkiller, Egyptian War, ERS and by other names) is a card game of the matching family of games.

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Euchre

Euchre or eucre is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24, 28, or sometimes 32, standard playing cards.

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Forty-fives

Forty-Fives (also known as Forty-Five, Forte Fives, Forty-Fives, Auction Forty-Fives, Auction 120s, 120, Growl, Spoil Five, Maw and Strong Fives) is a trick-taking card game that originated in Ireland.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip.

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Hearts

Hearts is an "evasion-type" trick-taking playing card game for four players, although variations can accommodate between three and six players.

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Hector

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Hector (Ἕκτωρ Hektōr) was a Trojan prince and the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War.

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Iliad

The Iliad (Ἰλιάς, in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer.

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International Playing-Card Society

The International Playing-Card Society (IPCS) is a non-profit organisation for those interested in playing cards, their design, and their history.

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Jack of Diamonds (artists)

Jack of Diamonds («Бубновый валет», Romanized: Bubnovyi Valet), also called Knave Of Diamonds, was a group of avant-garde artists founded in Moscow in 1910.

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Jack of Diamonds (song)

Jack of Diamonds (a.k.a. Jack o' Diamonds and Jack of Diamonds (Is a Hard Card to Play)) is a traditional folk song.

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Jack of Hearts

Jack of Hearts (Jack Hart) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Jass

JassDavid Parlett The Oxford guide to card games, pg.

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Judas Maccabeus

Judah Maccabee (or Judas Maccabeus, also spelled Machabeus, or Maccabaeus, Hebrew: יהודה המכבי, Yehudah ha-Makabi) was a Jewish priest (kohen) and a son of the priest Mattathias.

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Karnöffel

Karnöffel is a trick-taking card game which probably came from the upper-German language area in Europe in the first quarter of the 15th century.

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King (playing card)

The king is a playing card with a picture of a king on it.

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King, Queen, Knave

King, Queen, Knave is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin), while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic in 1928.

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Klaberjass

Klaberjass or Bela is a trick-taking card game that is most popular in German communities.

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Knave of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

The Knave of Hearts is a character from the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

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Knave of Hearts (film)

Knave of Hearts is a 1954 film about the adventures of a French philanderer in Paris and London.

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Knight (playing card)

A knight or cavalier is a playing card with a picture of a man riding a horse on it.

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La Bête

La Bête (1991) is a comedy by American playwright, David Hirson.

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La Hire

Étienne de Vignolles, called La Hire (Préchacq-les-Bains, Landes, 1390 – 11 January 1443 in Montauban), was a French military commander during the Hundred Years' War.

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Lancelot

Sir Lancelot du Lac (meaning Lancelot of the Lake), alternatively also written as Launcelot and other spellings, is one of the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend.

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Lanterloo

Lanterloo or Loo is a 17th-century trick taking game of the Trump family of which many varieties are recorded.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.

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Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

"Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts", is a song by Bob Dylan released on the 1975 album Blood on the Tracks, known for its complex plot and long running time.

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List of Mobile Fighter G Gundam characters

This is a list of characters featured in the Japanese anime television series and subsequent spin-offs.

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List of playing-card nicknames

This list of playing card nicknames has the common nicknames for the playing cards in a 52-card deck, as used in some common card games, such as poker.

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List of poker hands

In poker, players construct sets of five playing cards, called hands, according to the rules of the game being played.

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List of poker variants

The card game of poker has many variations, most of which were created in the United States in the mid-1900's.

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Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)

The Mamluk Sultanate (سلطنة المماليك Salṭanat al-Mamālīk) was a medieval realm spanning Egypt, the Levant, and Hejaz.

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Marjolet

Marjolet is a French 6-card trick-and-draw game for two players using a 32-card piquet pack.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, a publisher of American comic books and related media.

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Mobile Fighter G Gundam

Mobile Fighter G Gundam, also known in Japan as, is a 1994 Japanese animated television series produced by Sunrise and the fifth installment in the long running Gundam franchise.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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Napoleon (card game)

Napoleon or Nap is a straightforward trick-taking game in which players receive five cards each; whoever bids the highest number of tricks chooses trumps and tries to win at least their bidden number of tricks.

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Noddy (card game)

Noddy (O.F. naudin, also Noddie or Nodde) is a 16th-century English card game ancestor of Cribbage.

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Ogier the Dane

Ogier the Dane (Ogier le Danois, Ogier de Danemarche, Holger Danske) is a legendary knight of Charlemagne who appears in many Old French chansons de geste, in particular, as the chief protagonist in La chevalerie Ogier (ca. 1220) which belongs to the Geste de Doon de Mayence ("cycle of the rebellious vassals").

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Pinochle

Pinochle or binocle (sometimes pinocle, or penuchle) is a trick-taking card game typically for two to four players and played with a 48-card deck.

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Playing card

A playing card is a piece of specially prepared heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic, marked with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games.

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Polignac (card game)

Polignac (a.k.a. Jeux des Valets), the version of Knaves, is a French 18th century trick-taking card game ancestral to Hearts and Black Maria.

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Primero

Primero (in English also called Primus, Prime, or in Italian Primiera or Spanish Primera), is a 16th-century gambling card game of which the earliest reference dates back to 1526.

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Pub (Đorđe Balašević album)

Pub (trans. Jack) is the first solo album released by Serbian and former Yugoslav singer-songwriter Đorđe Balašević.

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Queen (playing card)

The Queen is a playing card with a picture of a woman on it.

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René Clément

René Clément (18 March 1913 – 17 March 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter.

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Reversis

Reversis, or more rarely, Réversi, is a very old trick-taking card game of the Hearts group whose origin is supposed to be Italian, transformed into Spain and then in France.

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Ruff and honours

Ruff and honours was an English trick-taking card game that was popular in the 16th and 17th centuries; it was superseded in the 18th century by Whist.

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Samuel Rowlands

Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630) was an English author of pamphlets in prose and verse, which reflect the follies and humours of lower middle-class life in his time.

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Schafkopf

Schafkopf or Schaffkopf, also called Bavarian Schafkopf to distinguish it from German Schafkopf, is a late 18th-century German trick-taking card game most popular in Bavaria, but also played in other parts of Germany as well as other German-speaking countries like Austria.

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Sexually transmitted infection

Sexually transmitted infections (STI), also referred to as sexually transmitted diseases (STD) or venereal diseases (VD), are infections that are commonly spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex and oral sex.

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Sheepshead (card game)

Sheepshead or Sheephead is a trick-taking card game related to the Skat family of games.

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Skat (card game)

Skat is a 3-player trick-taking card game devised around 1810 in Altenburg in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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Snopes.com

Snopes.com, formally known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is one of the first online fact-checking websites.

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Spoil Five

Spoil-Five (also Spoilt Five and Five and Ten) is the traditional book version of the Irish national card game called Twenty-Five, which underlies the Canadian game of Forty-Five.

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Sueca (card game)

Sueca (meaning Swedish (female) in Portuguese) is a 4 player-partnership point trick-taking card game, and a popular variant of the Bisca card game.

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Suit (cards)

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T.N.T. (album)

T.N.T. is the second studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released only in Australia, on 1 December 1975.

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Tarocco Siciliano

The Tarocco Siciliano is a tarot deck found in Sicily and is used to play Sicilian tarocchi.

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Tarot

The tarot (first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi, tarock, and others) is a pack of playing cards, used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot.

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The Jack of Hearts

The Jack of Hearts is a 1919 American short Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason.

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The Playing-Card

The Playing-Card is a quarterly publication, publishing scholarly articles covering all aspects of playing cards and of the games played with them, produced by the International Playing-Card Society.

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Trappola

Trappola is an early 16th-century Venetian trick-taking card game which spread to most parts of Central Europe and survived, in various forms and under various names like Trapulka, Bulka and Hundertspiel until perhaps the middle of the 20th century.

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Twenty-eight (card game)

Twenty-eight, also called "twenty nine" in some places is an Indian trick-taking card game for four players, in which the Jack and the nine are the highest cards in every suit, followed by ace and ten.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Valet

Valet and varlet are terms for male servants who serve as personal attendants to their employer.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.

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500 (card game)

500 or Five Hundred is a trick-taking game that is an extension of Euchre with some ideas from Bridge.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(playing_card)

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