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  2. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada

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    Sometimes they include interior courts. Most Second Empire domestic plans are adapted from prevailing plan types developed for Italianate designs by authors such as Alexander Jackson Davis and Samuel Sloan. The prime distinction between the designs is a preference for a central focus rather than a diffusion of forms.

  3. Deuce (playing card) - Wikipedia

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    The four deuces from a William Tell pack Deuce of Acorns Württemberg pattern deck: deuce of bells Deuce of bells playing card depicting a wild boar sow (1573). The deuce (German: Daus, plural: Däuser) is the playing card with the highest value in German card games.

  4. Deuces (card game) - Wikipedia

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    Deuces or Twos is a patience or card solitaire game of English origin which is played with two packs of playing cards. It is so called because each foundation starts with a Deuce, or Two. It belongs to a family of card games that includes Busy Aces, which is derived in turn from Napoleon at St Helena (aka Forty Thieves).

  5. Deuce - Wikipedia

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    Deuces, a gang in the film South Central; Gaming. Deuce (dice), the side of a die showing 2; Deuce (playing card), the playing card with the highest value in German ...

  6. Andrew Carnegie Mansion - Wikipedia

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    The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is at 2 East 91st Street [5] [6] in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. [7] It stands on 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) of land [8] between Fifth Avenue and Central Park to the west, 90th Street to the south, and 91st Street to the north. [9]

  7. Lyndhurst (mansion) - Wikipedia

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    The mansion interior serves as the home of the character Aurora Fane and her husband, and the Lyndhurst Carriage House is the location of the New York Globe offices. Season 1 also featured the Lyndhurst grounds and greenhouse. The ferry terminal in the series' premiere episode was modeled after the Lyndhurst Bowling Alley.

  8. Glossary of card game terms - Wikipedia

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    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

  9. Mansion - Wikipedia

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    A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word mansio "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb manere "to dwell". The English word manse originally defined a property large enough for the parish priest to maintain himself, but a mansion is usually no longer self-sustaining in this ...