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Rook is a trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards. Sometimes referred to as Christian cards or missionary cards, [1] [2] Rook playing cards were introduced by Parker Brothers in 1906 to provide an alternative to standard playing cards for those in the Puritan tradition, and those in Mennonite culture who considered the face cards in a regular deck inappropriate [3 ...
Siebmachers Wappenbuch ( German: [ˈziːpmaxɐs ˈvapm̩buːx]) is a roll of arms first published in 1605 as two heraldic multivolume book series of armorial bearings or coats of arms of the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire, as well as coats of arms of city-states and some burgher families. Founded and compiled by Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher ...
Hand of cards during a game. The following is a glossary of terms used in card games.Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to bridge, hearts, poker or rummy), but apply to a wide range of card games played with non-proprietary pac
The colour red and the star are symbols of communism; grains are often used to represent agriculture, farmers, or the common people, the cogwheel or other industrial tools represent the industrial proletariat. Socialist-style emblems usually follow a unique style consisting of communist symbolism. Although commonly referred to as coats of arms ...
Turkey has no official national emblem, but the crescent and star ( Turkish: ay-yıldız, lit. 'crescent-star') design from the national flag is in use on Turkish passports, Turkish identity cards and at the diplomatic missions of Turkey . The crescent and star are from the 19th-century Ottoman flag (1844–1923) which also forms the basis of ...
An unofficial or 'artistic' Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Ireland after 1707. Royal arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, still visible at King's Inns, Dublin. This version has the harp with a woman's head and breasts, as well as the arms of the House of Hanover at the centre, dating it to 1816–1837.
Shadows over Camelot is an Arthurian -themed board game designed by Serge Laget and Bruno Cathala, illustrated by Julien Delval and Cyrille Daujean. The game was unveiled by the publishers Days of Wonder at the 2005 American International Toy Fair and was more widely released in May and June 2005. The game was also published in French as Les ...
George Bancroft's bookplate and signature. "εἰς φάος" is Greek for "Toward the Light". The tablet is an ancient Roman tabula ansata.. An Ex Libris from ex-librīs (Latin for 'from the books (or library)'), [1] [2] also known as a bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early 20th century), [3] is a printed or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the front ...