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  2. Thomas Joseph Steed - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Joseph Steed (13 December 1826 – 26 June 1910) was an early Mormon pioneer in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was a polygamist , and author, with his diary being published posthumously in 1925.

  3. Playing card suit - Wikipedia

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    The Muslims renamed the suit of myriads as cups; this may have been due to seeing a Chinese character for "myriad" upside-down. The Chinese numeral character for Ten on the Tens of Myriads suit may have inspired the Muslim suit of swords. [3] Another clue linking these Chinese, Muslim, and European cards are the ranking of certain suits.

  4. Thomas Joseph - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Joseph was born on 8 June 1954, in Eloor, an industrial town in Ernakulam district of the south Indian state of Kerala to Thomas Vadaykkal and Mary Vellayil. [1] He wrote his first short story when he was a 5th standard student and started publishing stories in Malayalam weeklies during his high school and college period.

  5. Clubs (suit) - Wikipedia

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    Its original French name is Trèfle which means "clover" and the card symbol depicts a three-leafed clover leaf.The Italian name is Fiori ("flower"). However, the English name "Clubs" is a translation of basto, the Spanish name for the suit of batons, suggesting that Spanish-suited cards were used in England before French suits were invented.

  6. History of suits - Wikipedia

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    The Beatle suit, inspired by Pierre Cardin's collarless jackets, derived from Edwardian suits and the Indian Nehru jacket. The Mod suit, a fashion of the 1960s, and again in the early 2010s. Characteristics include a very slim cut, narrow lapels, three or four buttons and a strongly tapered waist. Usually single-breasted and grey.

  7. Bridge maxims - Wikipedia

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    A long suit, even if weaker, is often ultimately more powerful and desirable as a contract than a short suit, however good, because long trumps will usually make tricks in the end, and they allow a greater level of control during the game. With a misfit, bid cautiously; with a good fit, bid boldly. Avoids chasing a poor contract with a misfit ...

  8. Thomas Joseph Sugrue - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Joseph Sugrue (1907–1953) was an American writer. He is best known today as the writer of There Is a River, the only biography of Edgar Cayce written during Cayce’s lifetime and the book that made the psychic a household name in 1942. He also lent his writing talents to the Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment for ...

  9. R v Smith (Thomas Joseph) - Wikipedia

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    R v Smith (Thomas Joseph) [1959] 2 QB 35 is an English criminal law case, dealing with causation and homicide.The court ruled that neither negligence of medical staff, nor being dropped on the way from a stretcher twice, constituted breaks in the chain of causation in murder cases.