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The moccasin game is a gambling game once played by most Native American tribes in North America. In the game, one player hides an object (traditionally a pebble, but more recently sometimes an old bullet or a ball) in one of several moccasins, but in such a way that the other player cannot easily see which moccasin it is in; that player then has to guess which moccasin contains the object.
Agkistrodon is a genus of pit vipers commonly known as American moccasins. [2] [3] The genus is endemic to North America, ranging from the Southern United States to northern Costa Rica. [1] Eight species are currently recognized, [4] [5] all of them monotypic and closely related. [6] Common names include: cottonmouths, copperheads, and cantils. [7]
Contemporary moccasins Osage (Native American). Pair of Moccasins, early 20th century. Brooklyn Museum. A moccasin is a shoe, made of deerskin or other soft leather, [1] consisting of a sole (made with leather that has not been "worked") and sides made of one piece of leather, [1] stitched together at the top, and sometimes with a vamp (additional panel of leather).
In some schools, exercise books may be colour-coded depending on the subject. For example, biology might be green and algebra blue. The exercise book was also called version book historically, and is called khata in India, scribbler in Canada, jotter in Scotland, [1] and copy book in Ireland. [citation needed] The US equivalent is composition ...
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The Beaded Moccasins: The Story of Mary Campbell (ISBN 9780395853986) is an American historical novel, written by Lynda Durrant in 2000. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is about a settler girl who is kidnapped by Native Americans after she turns twelve.
The Duke lacrosse rape hoax was a widely reported 2006 criminal case hoax in Durham, North Carolina, United States, in which three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape.
After choosing a box at random and withdrawing one coin at random that happens to be a gold coin, the question is what is the probability that the other coin is gold. As in the Monty Hall problem, the intuitive answer is 1 / 2 , but the probability is actually 2 / 3 .