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A thrown playing card embedded in an apple. Card throwing is the art of throwing standard playing cards with great accuracy or force. It is performed both as part of stage magic shows and as a competitive physical feat among magicians, with official records existing for longest distance thrown, fastest speed, highest throw, greatest accuracy, and the greatest number of cards in one minute.
The nine of diamonds playing card is often referred to as the Curse of Scotland [16] or the Scourge of Scotland, [17] there are a number of reasons given for this connection: It was the playing card used by Sir John Dalrymple, the Earl of Stair, to cryptically authorise the Glencoe Massacre.
In a deck of playing cards, the term face card (US) or court card (British and US), [1] and sometimes royalty, is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person as opposed to the pip cards. In a standard 52-card pack of the English pattern , these cards are the King , Queen and Jack .
Dodge City (2004): The expansion (referencing 1939 film Dodge City) adds 15 new characters, 40 new playing cards and 8 "role" cards (7 duplicates) allowing up to 8 people to play. It features a new symbol, meaning "discard another card to play this card", and new green-bordered cards that take effect in the next opponent's turn (in case of a ...
Cutting a playing card in half with a rifle bullet at long ranges; Shooting cigarettes in half while they were held by volunteers; Shooting a dime tossed in the air, at range of 90 feet; Shooting long strings of targets tossed in the air; in one instance she hit 4472 out of 5000 in a single day. [1]
The journal was founded in 1972, as The Journal of the Playing-Card Society (until 1980). Since then it has produced an annual volume of four (formerly six) issues. It has an index of its articles for the years 1972–1997, [1] and contents listings for issues from 1980 to the present.</ref> [2]
The two play gin rummy, and Bugs wins the game (by cheating); he rushes Sam onto the stagecoach to the train station accompanied by a rushed rendition of Cheyenne. As he is shoving Sam onto the train, they discover that the passenger car is the Miami Special , full of swimsuit-clad women heading for a beauty contest.
Elmer Merrifield Keith (March 8, 1899 – February 14, 1984) [2] was an American rancher, firearms enthusiast, and author. Keith was instrumental in the development of the first magnum revolver cartridge, the .357 Magnum (1935), as well as the later .44 Magnum (1956) and .41 Magnum (1964) cartridges, credited by Roy G. Jinks as "the father of big bore handgunning."