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Zener card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zener cards may be used to measure the innate ESP of an individual, but they may also be used to indicate the average scores for groups of subjects being tested. Zener cards are cards used to conduct experiments for extra-sensory perception, most often clairvoyance. Elaborate experiments with Zener cards, just as with other forms of testing for ESP, have been designed that use all ways of keeping the subject unable to see the cards or the face of the experimenter, finding ways for the actual cards and responses to be recorded while the two are in different rooms. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zener_card   (875 words)

Yellow card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yellow cards are also in use in other sports, such as volleyball, women's lacrosse, field hockey, rugby union, rugby league in many countries, and handball. Yellow and red cards were first introduced in the game by British referee Ken Aston and their first major use was in the 1970 World Cup. A yellow card is used in many sports as a means of cautioning a player regarding their conduct, or indicating that a player is to receive a certain level of punishment. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yellow_card   (790 words)

Test card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Test card music became popular in its own right when a group of enthusiasts discovered one another and realised they were not alone in enjoying the music played during the day in the 1950s, 60s and 70s while the test card was broadcast on BBC. The most famous British test card is Test Card F which incorporates a colour photograph of Carole Hersee (daughter of BBC engineer George Hersee) playing noughts and crosses with a doll, used on the BBC and ITV from the beginning of colour broadcasts in the late 1960s. A test card, also known as a test pattern in North America, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active, but no program is being broadcast (often at startup and closedown). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Test_card   (1295 words)

Card scraper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Card scrapers are available in a range of shapes and sizes, the most common being a rectangular shape of around postcard size. The main cutting component of a card scraper is the burr. Card scrapers are most suitable for working with hardwoods, and can be used instead of sandpaper. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Card_scraper   (623 words)

Punch card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Punch card based voting systems, the Votomatic system in particular, use special cards where each possible hole was pre scored, allowing perforations to be made by the voter pressing a stylus through a guide in the voting machine. The punch cards were 7 and 3/8 inches long by 3 and 1/4 inches high and were 0.007 inch thick with one of the upper corners cut at an angle. In that year, punched cards were made a standard size, exactly 7-3/8 inch by 3-1/4 inch (187.325 by 82.55 mm), dimensions almost identical to the large-sized notes used as U.S. currency until 1929. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Punch_card   (1871 words)

Business card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Business cards are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid. Business cards are frequently used during sales calls to provide potential customers with a means to contact the business or representative of the business. Business cards evolved from a fusion of traditional trade cards and visiting cards. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Business_card   (1134 words)

Info and facts on 'Baseball card' While baseball cards may be of any size, the standard size in the industry is 2-½ inches by 3-½ inches (on most cards, the image is oriented vertically so that 2-½ inches would be the width, and 3-½ inches the height). Starting in about 1886, baseball cards were often included with cigarette (Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking) s, partly for promotional purposes and partly because the card served to reinforce the packaging and protect the cigarettes from damage. Some early baseball cards could be used as part of a game (A contest with rules to determine a winner), which might be either a conventional card game (A game played with playing cards) or a simulated (additional info and facts about simulated) baseball game. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/baseball_card.htm   (1129 words)

Andrew Card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Card served in President Ronald Reagan's administration as Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and subsequently as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, where he was liaison to governors, statewide elected officials, state legislators, mayors and other elected officials. Card was active in the Boy Scouts of America during his youth. Card graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Card   (645 words)

Visiting card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Visiting card of Johann van Beethoven, Brother of Ludwig van Beethoven Visiting cards also known as calling cards first appeared in China in the 15th century, and in Europe in the 17th century. As an adoption from French and English etiquette, visiting cards became common amongst the aristocracy of America and Europe. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Visiting_card   (325 words)

Smart card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Smart cards were invented and patented in the 1970s. Smart cards have been advertised as suitable for these tasks, because they are engineered to be tamper resistant. Smart cards are often carried in wallets or pockets — a fairly harsh environment for a chip. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smart_card   (2052 words)

Playing card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An early mention of a distinct series of playing cards is the entry of Charles or Charbot Poupart, treasurer of the household of Charles VI of France, in his book of accounts for 1392 or 1393, which records payment for the painting of three sets or packs of cards, which were evidently already well known. Playing cards are often used as props in magic tricks, as well as occult practices such as cartomancy, and a number of card games involve (or can be used to support) gambling. Until August 4, 1960, decks of playing cards printed and sold in the United Kingdom were liable for taxable duty and the Ace of Spades carried an indication of the name of the printer and the fact that taxation had been paid on the cards. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Playing_card   (4145 words)

Card marking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Card marking is the process of altering playing cards such that the suit, rank or both are only apparent to the person marking the cards or potentially another conspirator. Card marking example Sells a variation of the marked deck. To be effective the distinguishing mark or marks must be done on the obverse side which are normally uniform. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Card_marking   (139 words)

Card game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It consists of 52 cards, each card having a suit (one of spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs) and a rank (a number between 2 and 10, or one of jack, queen, king and ace). Although many games have special decks of cards, the 52 card pack is known as the standard deck, and is used in a wide variety of games. In addition to games that use the standard deck, there are also games that use some modification of the standard deck, for example excluding all cards of rank lower than some rank (e.g., a pinochle deck), or adding a special card, joker, to the standard deck. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Card_game#The_pack_or_deck   (2023 words)

Card counting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In card games, card counting is the process of gaining an advantage by tracking the cards which have been played, so the player has an idea of the value of the cards remaining to be dealt. A common system (the Hi-Lo Count) is to assign positive one (+1) to the 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 cards, and negative one (-1) to the 10, J, Q, K, and A. The 7, 8, and 9 are not counted in the Hi-Lo system. Counting is most popular with blackjack, though it can be utilized in any card game where the deck has a memory. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Card_counting   (2243 words)

Ambitious card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The "ambitious card" is bent so that it is seen to be physically different from all the other cards, making it clear that it is placed into the middle of the deck, and increasing the amazement of the spectator as it is seen to rise to the top. The Ambitious Card is a magic effect in which a playing card seems to return to the top of the deck after being placed elsewhere in the middle of the deck. The spectator is handed the "ambitious card" and asked to put it in the middle, then asked to hold the deck and do some type of magic move, essentially calling the card to the top of the deck himself. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ambitious_card   (562 words)

Wild card (poker) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The common rule in casinos is that a wild card plays as a bug, which is given the rank of ace unless designating it as a different card would complete a straight, flush, or straight flush. Wild Card Poker Paradox - curiouser.co.uk This pages explains the paradox that arises in the ranking of hands when wild cards are introduced to poker. There is a tendency among some players to regard wild cards as "impure" or treat wild card games as silly or amateurish. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wild_card_(poker)   (549 words)

Test Card F - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Test Card F is a test card, an image used to determine the quality of a broadcast television picture. On the updated Test Card J, the 'X' on the noughts-and-crosses board is an indicator for aligning the centre of the screen. Test Card J and Test Card W, which also feature Hersee, have replaced it. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Test_Card_F   (351 words)

Sports card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sports card is a generic term for a trading card with a sports-related subject, as opposed to non-sports trading cards. Cards from this period are commonly known as cigarette cards or tobacco cards, because many were produced by tobacco companies and sold as inserts in packages of cigarettes. Sports cards were among the earliest, and remain one of the most popular, forms of collectibles. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sports_card   (393 words)

Card sharp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Card sharps are often common characters in caper films, since the questionable legality and morality of their hobby also plays well with that of their occupation. Card sharps typically use methods also employed by magicians to keep control of the order of the cards or sometimes to control one specific card. The etymology of the term "card sharp" is debated. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Card_sharp   (340 words)

Card Sharks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Card Sharks was revived for 13 weeks in the fall of 2001, but was not well received by critics due to its gameplay, which was changed from the 1978 and 1986 versions. Card Sharks was an American television game show in which contestants guessed whether a playing card was higher or lower than the card that preceded it. Contestants played rows of three cards in the tiebreaker instead of five, and three questions were asked instead of four, with the third being sudden death (by 1988 the tiebreaker was changed to only one sudden death question). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Card_Sharks   (2670 words)

Card model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Card models, also sometimes called paper models, are models of real-world objects made usually of heavy paper or card stock as a hobby, or sometimes as a craft for children. Printed card models became common in magazines in the early part of the 20th century. The popularity of card modeling boomed during World War II, when paper was one of the few items whose use and production was not heavily regulated, but as plastic model kits became more commonly available, interest in paper decreased. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Card_model   (440 words)

Punch card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cards were inexpensive and provided a permanent record of each transactions. One notorious problem with a punched card system of tabulation is the incomplete punch; this can lead to a smaller hole than expected, or to a mere slit on the card, or to a mere dimple on the card. One reason punch cards persisted into the early computer age was that an expensive computer was not required to encode information onto the cards. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Punch_card   (440 words)

Hollerith's Punched Cards Hollerith's early cards were punched with round holes, because his prototype machine employed cards with holes created using a tram conductor's ticket punch. By the early 1900s, Hollerith's cards supported 45 columns, where each column could be used to represent a single character or data value. Whatever the case, we do know that these cards were eventually standardized at 7 and 3/8 inches by 3 and 1/4 inches, and Hollerith's many patents permitted his company (which became International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924) to hold an effective monopoly on punched cards for many years. www.maxmon.com /punch1.htm   (440 words)

Greeting card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Greeting cards derive from postcards which are single sided without the fold. Although greeting cards are usually given on special occasions such as birthdays, Christmas or other holidays, they are also sent on 'non-occasions' to say 'hello' or 'thank you'. Greeting cards, usually packaged with an envelope, come in a variety of styles, are manufactured and/or hand-made by hundreds of companies big and small. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greeting_card   (192 words)

Rules of Card Games: Red Dog If you have a card in your hand which is the same suit as the dealt card and higher in rank, you show this card, take back your stake, and the dealer gives you an equal amount out of the pot. When the player has bet, the dealer burns one card (faces it and puts it on the bottom of the pack), and turns up the next card, and the player's three cards are exposed. If you have no card which is the same suit as and higher than the dealt card, you must show your whole hand, and the dealer sweeps your stake into the pot. www.pagat.com /banking/reddog.html   (192 words)

Debit card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Debit cards may be considered similar to stored-value cards in that they represent a finite amount of money owed by the card issuer to the holder. Overall, the online debit card is generally viewed as superior to the offline debit card because of its more secure authentication system and live status, which alleviates problems with processing lag on transactions that may have been forgotten or not authorized by the owner of the card. Debit cards and secured credit cards are popular among college students who have not yet established a credit history, or the "unbanked". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Debit_card   (2111 words)

Credit card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The cardholder of a secured credit card is still expected to make regular payments, as he or she would with a regular credit card, but should he or she default on a payment, the card issuer has the option of recovering the cost of the purchases paid to the merchants out of the deposit. The major credit card companies have been accused of targeting a younger audience, in particular college students, many of whom are already in debt with college tuition fees and college loans, and who typically are less experienced at managing their own finances. The card number's prefix, called the Bank Identification Number, is the sequence of digits at the beginning of the number that determine the credit card network to which the number belongs. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Credit_card   (3342 words)

Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia First introduced to the general public in 2003, the card was first put into use at the end of 2003 (in part possibly due to the impact of SARS that year, which brought minor delays), when Beijing subway Line 13 switched to the AFC ticket inspection system. The card can be bought by locals and foreigners in the city against a deposit of CNY 30; identification is required prior to the first purchase. Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card (北京市政交通一卡通) store-value swipe card is a card used in Beijing, China, for public transportation and related uses. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yikatong_card   (3342 words)

Trading card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Trading cards are traditionally associated with sports; baseball cards are especially well-known. In some jurisdictions, trading cards (particularly baseball cards) are distributed by police officers to children in order to boost public relations. A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card which is intended for trading and collecting. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trading_card   (171 words)

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