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Black Jack Pershing in Cuba Chapter IV, General of the Armies John J. Pershing, State Funeral, 15–19 July 1948 Archived August 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine in The Last Salute: Civil and Military Funeral, 1921–1969 Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine by B. C. Mossman and M. W. Stark, United States Army Center of Military History
The publication and subsequent notoriety of the book was the cause at the time behind many casinos changing the rules and conditions of how Blackjack was offered – for example, they stopped dealing single-deck Blackjack down to the last card. [14] After players began complaining, most casinos went back to the previous rules and conditions.
The U.S. Army's first heavy usage of Quads was under general John "Blackjack" Pershing in the 1916 Pancho Villa Expedition in Mexico — both as regular transport trucks, and in the form of the Jeffery armored car. Once the U.S. entered World War I, Nash Quads were used heavily in Pershing's subsequent campaigns in Europe, and they became the ...
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The Tupolev Tu-160 (Russian: Туполев Ту-160 «Белый лебедь», romanized: Bely Lebed, lit. 'White Swan'; [1] NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing nuclear-capable heavy strategic bomber and airborne missile platform designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
Blackjack (formerly black jack or vingt-un) is a casino banking game. [ 1 ] : 342 It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. It uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as " twenty-one ".
The 4th Infantry Division is a division of the United States Army based at Fort Carson, Colorado.It is composed of a division headquarters battalion, three brigade combat teams (two Stryker and one armor), a combat aviation brigade, a division sustainment brigade, and a division artillery.
This hand was called a "blackjack", and it is claimed that the name stuck to the game even though the ten-to-one bonus was soon withdrawn. French card historian Thierry Depaulis has recently debunked this story, showing that the name blackjack was first given to the game by prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–99), the bonus being ...