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gambling card game popular in casinos throughout the world. Its origin is disputed, but it is certainly related to several French and Italian gambling games. In Britain since World War I, the ...
yakuza
in Japan, gangster, a member of a boryokudan (q.v.), or gang of racketeers. The word yakuza, which has come to mean "good for nothing," is derived from a worthless hand in a Japanese card game ...
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a transitional area for plant and animal life. More than 130 species of trees are native: the eastern forests of maple, sweet gum, hickory, oak, and pine change into the cottonwood, elm, ...
playing card
Ranks are indicated by numerals from 1 to 10 on "spot cards." In addition, three court cards designated jack (formerly knave), queen, and king are notionally equivalent to 11, 12, and 13, ...
roulette
(from French: "small wheel"), gambling game in which players bet on which red or black numbered compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball (spun in the opposite direction) will come to rest ...
card game
Intrinsic evidence suggests that a trick-taking game without any special suit, or trump suit, along with playing cards, reached Europe in the 14th century, likely by passage through the Islamic ...
State and Local Affairs
Proponents of state-sanctioned games of chance had mixed luck during the year. Legislators in Florida and New York approved proposals to set up casino gambling in selected areas, subject to voter ...
baccarat
casino card game resembling, but simpler than, blackjack. In basic baccarat the house is the bank. In the related game chemin de fer, or chemmy, the bank passes from player to player. In punto banco ...
The Reeperbahn
As rock and roll made its way to continental Europe in the late 1950s, several nightclub owners in the red-light district of Hamburg, West Germany-the Reeperbahn, named for the street that was its ...
Texas
A great variety of vegetation is found in Texas due to differences in the amount of rainfall and type of soil. Native longleaf, shortleaf, and loblolly pine provide most of the commercial timber in ...
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