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  2. Ace of spades - Wikipedia

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    During the Vietnam War, the ace of spades was used as a tool of psychological warfare as it was common practice by US soldiers to leave the ace card on the bodies of killed Vietnamese. [12] They thought that the card's connections to French colonial rule of Vietnam and putative symbolism in Vietnamese tradition to mean death and ill-fortune ...

  3. Ace - Wikipedia

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    Four aces from a standard 52-card deck. An ace is a playing card, die or domino with a single pip.In the standard French deck, an ace has a single suit symbol (a heart, diamond, spade, or a club) located in the middle of the card, sometimes large and decorated, especially in the case of the ace of spades.

  4. Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards - Wikipedia

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    The highest-ranking cards, starting with the aces and kings, were used for the people at the top of the most-wanted list. The ace of spades is Saddam Hussein, the aces of clubs and hearts are his sons Qusay and Uday respectively, and the ace of diamonds is Saddam's presidential secretary Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti. This strict correspondence ...

  5. Standard 52-card deck - Wikipedia

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    The ace of spades, unique in its large, ornate spade, is sometimes said to be the death card or the picture card, and in some games is used as a trump card. The queen of spades usually holds a sceptre and is sometimes known as "the bedpost queen", though more often she is called the "black lady". She is the only queen facing right.

  6. Spades (suit) - Wikipedia

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    The word "Spade" is probably derived from the Old Spanish spado meaning "sword" and suggests that Spanish suits were used in England before French suits. [2] The French name for this suit, Pique ("pike"), meant, in the 14th century, a weapon formed by an iron spike placed at the end of a pike. [3] In German it is known as Pik.

  7. List of playing-card nicknames - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of nicknames used for individual playing cards of the French-suited standard 52-card pack.Sometimes games require the revealing or announcement of cards, at which point appropriate nicknames may be used if allowed under the rules or local game culture.

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  9. Bicycle Playing Cards - Wikipedia

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    Current Bicycle playing cards: Ace of spades, joker, and the "Rider Back" in red. Bicycle Playing Cards is a brand of playing cards.Since 1885, the Bicycle brand has been manufactured by the United States Printing Company, which, in 1954, became the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC), now based in Erlanger, Kentucky.