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Partner's responses to the 4NT ace-asking bid are made in step-wise fashion: 5 ♣ to indicate 0 or 4 aces; 5 ♦ to indicate 1 ace; 5 ♥ to indicate 2 aces; 5 ♠ to indicate 3 aces; When responding, do not count a void as an ace. Generally, 4NT is ace-asking when your side has bid a suit. There are exceptions:
"The Willows" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature ...
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, ...
Karma is a play that was written by Algernon Blackwood with Violet Pearn and was published in 1918. [1] The play is arranged in five sections: a prologue, epilogue, and three acts. It is at once a romance, an expression of Blackwoods spirituality, and a work of wartime homefront propaganda. [2] It contains many connections to Blackwood's corpus ...
Blackwood's major work was a critique of George Buchanan's dialogue De Iure Regni apud Scotos, (1579), in which Buchanan had intended to justify to the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots. De Conjunctione religionis et imperii libro duo, Paris (1575), (Two books on the union of Religion and temporal power) The Apology for Kings;
The CEO said there was a downed power line at the site of the Hurst fire's ignition, though data show that abnormal electrical activity was spotted at 10:11 p.m. Jan. 7, a minute after the fire ...
Byzantine Blackwood is a bidding convention in the game of bridge. Devised by Jack Marx , it is a complex version of the Blackwood convention (by which a four notrump (4NT) call asks about partner 's honor card holdings). [ 1 ]
Humans are known to answer the distress calls of their cats and dogs -- and there have been studies that show the furry friends may do the same for their people.