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    A card sharp (also card shark, sometimes hyphenated or spelled as a single word) is a person who uses skill and/or deception to win at card games (such...
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    The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds is an oil-on-canvas painting produced c. 1636–1638 by the French artist Georges de La Tour. It is now in the Louvre...
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    A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that...
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    A person who practices card manipulation may be called a card sharp, card shark, or card mechanic. Dealing Bottom dealing Second dealing Shuffling Faro...
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  • whether the next card drawn is higher or lower. The title Card Sharks is a play on the term "card sharp", a person skilled at card games. The concept...
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  • Look up Sharp or sharp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sharp or SHARP may refer to: SHARP (helmet ratings) (Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme)...
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  • heist involving a confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three-card brag, prompting him to pay off his...
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    an English actor and filmmaker, best known for his role as Eddie the card sharp in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He appeared as Scabior in Harry...
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    anthropomorphized dogs, but the eleven in which dogs are seated around a card table have become well known in the United States as examples of kitsch art...
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  • The queen of spades (Q♠) is a face card in decks of French-suited playing cards and Tarot, depicting a queen of the spades (♠) suit and associated with...
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    X68000 (redirect from Sharp X68000)
    MC68882, with 6 MB RAM Sound card: Sharp CZ-6BM1: MIDI card System Sacom SX-68M: MIDI card System Sacom SX-68M-2: MIDI card Marcury-Unit: 16-bit stereo...
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    Simon Lovell (born 1957) is an English comedy magician, actor, and card sharp, who specialises in magic using playing cards. Lovell was a regular performer...
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    Financial Corp.: Card sharp". Institutional Investor. January 14, 2005. Retrieved May 22, 2024. "COMPANY NEWS; SIGNET BANKING TO SPIN OFF CREDIT CARD BUSINESS"...
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  • school teacher, Sarah Bunting, and Tom begin a friendship. Sampson, a card sharp and previous guest at Downton, steals a letter written by the Prince of...
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    of hand easier in the process. List of card manipulation techniques Card flourish Card marking Card sharp Card throwing Sleight of hand Trick deck Citations...
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    Chow's apprentice beats an overweight card sharp in a "fixed" high-stakes poker game. When taunted, the card sharp jumps onto the playing table and defeats...
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  • High Card (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese multimedia franchise created by Homura Kawamoto, Hikaru Muno, and TMS Entertainment. It consists of a manga...
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  • included one mission ("Memory") where Dan Briggs got his instructions on a card from a street photographer, which he then crumpled and presumably burned;...
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    such as by bending or adding visible marks to a card. This allows different methods for card sharps to cheat or for magicians to perform magic tricks...
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    1837–1877) was an English-born confidence artist, riverboat gambler and card sharp in Canada and the United States. He has been described by historians,...
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    it is not until 1408 that the first card game is described in a document about the exploits of two card sharps; although it is evidently very simple...
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  • from a "profession to be ashamed of", one with a "(ranking) lower than a card sharp on the Western scale of worthwhile citizens", to one of heroic respectability...
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  • James as Brad Marion, a hedge fund manager Bill Camp as Harlan Eustice, a card sharp who gets in over his head Graham Greene as Judge Dustin Foxman Justin...
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    Bath; The Valpinçon Bather La Tour: The Adoration of the Shepherds; The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds; Joseph the Carpenter; Magdalene with the Smoking...
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  • manual of card sharps, the book is considered to be one of the most influential works on magic or conjuring with cards. The Expert at the Card Table covers...
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  • Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin in 1854, based on a rumor in Moscow society about a card sharp who received a large sum of money from a usurer by pawning a false diamond...
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  • author and visual artist, who is perhaps best known for her role as young card sharp and trouble-maker, Lexie Patterson in television series Prisoner (1985–86)...
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    stacks the card(s) while doing a riffle shuffle. This form of stacking is the most difficult to master and the most respected under the card sharps and magicians...
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    Bath; The Valpinçon Bather La Tour: The Adoration of the Shepherds; The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds; Joseph the Carpenter; Magdalene with the Smoking...
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  • by many of Deadwood's citizens and the service is conducted by former card sharp Andy Cramed, who has returned to Deadwood an ordained minister. George...
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