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| | Playing card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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. | | | A playing card is a typically hand-sized rectangular (in India, round) piece of heavy paper or thin plastic used for playing card games. | | | Wilkinson suggests in The Chinese origin of playing cards that the first cards may have been actual paper currency which were both the tools of gaming and the stakes being played for. |
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| | creativepro.com - Heavy Metal Madness: It's All in the Cards |
| | The taxation of playing cards was eliminated in 1960. | | | Card playing is documented as early as the 10th century, though the Chinese version was more like paper dominoes, which were shuffled and dealt in various games. | | | From China playing cards spread to the Islamic cultures, where cups and swords were added to represent various "suits" and "court" cards. |
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| | dotpattern - playing card joker collection |
| | The World Web Playing Cards Museum may be the largest collection of cards and jokers on the internet. | | | The joker card is registered as a trademark, an opportunity for the card publisher to add something unique to their deck of cards. | | | More information is available on the Playing Card FAQ about the origin of the joker, plus an article exploring the symbolism of the images. |
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http://www.dotpattern.com/gamecard/jokers
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| | The International Playing-Card Society - Introduction |
| | The composition of the pack often changes with the game which is being played; a Swiss players sitting down to play jass expects to find 36 cards in their pack, German skat players use 32 cards, while the dealer of French Tarot has to cope with 78 large cards in their hand. | | | Maybe you have been on holiday and have seen an unfamiliar game being played with an unusual pack of cards and wondered how to find out the name and rules of the game, and where you might buy similar cards. | | | Playing cards are common, everyday objects which we take for granted. |
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http://i-p-c-s.org
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| | Card Games |
| | Index of games arranged by country where they are played, and the types of cards they are played with. | | | Alphabetical index to rules of traditional card and tile games for two or more players, giving the number of players required. | | | Links to sources of card games software, places to play cards online, other collections of card game rules, information about playing-cards, sources of cards and equipment, books, discussion groups, gambling and casinos and other resources. |
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http://www.pagat.com
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| | Rules of Card Games: Euchre |
| | Any card may be led, and each player in clockwise order must follow suit by playing a card of the same suit as the card led if possible. | | | When playing with a double pack, if two equally high cards are played to a trick, the second to be played beats the first. | | | If all four players are in the game, the play begins with the player to the dealer's left leading to the first trick. |
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http://www.pagat.com/euchre/euchre.html
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| | The World of Playing Card Design |
| | The reduction of Playing Card duty from one shilling to threepence in 1862 led to expansions in playing card sales, and no doubt new players were tempted to enter the market. | | | The Ace of Spades and Jokers are not the only cards to receive the attention of the playing card designer. | | | At around this period card players began to want indices and often these are found pencilled in the corners of packs dated around 1870 onwards. |
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http://www.wopc.co.uk/cards/design.html
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| | Games on Playing Cards |
| | These are not the games one plays with a standard deck of suited playing cards, such as Bridge, Poker, Skat, Jass, etc. Rather, these are individual games that could have been manufactured as board games, tile games, etc. | | | Because of the flexibility of a playing card deck during use and the small space in which decks can be stored, it is not surprising that game manufacturers selected a playing card format for some games as early as the 19th century. | | | Still later, in order to cater to the children's market, some games that might be played with standard suited playing card decks, were redesigned as individual games on playing cards. |
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http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~museum/vexhibit/cardgames/crd.html
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| | Card Playing. |
| | Parents sometimes permit cards in their house on the plea that if they do not let their boys play at home they will go elsewhere to play. | | | Most of them begin with the stout resolve, that their playing shall be no more than "just a little social game," and shall never go as far as gambling. | | | The reason why, in many places, card playing is permitted by good people, not without, we may believe, some inward protest, is because of an erroneous idea of what their social position demands of them. |
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http://www.covenanter.org/Practical/TheLot/cardplaying.htm
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| | CARD GAMES |
| | CARD PLAYERS COMPANION - Gyles Brandreth: Rules for all card games with strategy for play plus history of cards and game origin. | | | OFFICIAL RULES OF CARD GAMES - US Playing Card Co.: Choice of games, children's card games, general rules, game etiquette, card parties, family games, technical terms used in card games. | | | SCARNE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CARD GAMES - John Scarne: All the rules for all the games you will ever want to play. |
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http://www.casinocom.com/playcrds.html
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| | Playing Card Collections |
| | During level flight, at their not busy time, you can ask "Do you have playing cards on board ?" In a minute, cards will be in your hand. | | | There is a case that Goddes of misfortune plots no playing cards on your flight. | | | At the flight, I demmand playing cards, but a crew replied "No cards on board". |
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http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~athena/pcard/pcarde.html
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| | International Playing-Card Society - Brief History of Playing-Cards |
| | To the best of our knowledge, the first packs of cards in Europe comprised 52 cards in four Italian-type suits each with three court cards (king, knight, and foot-servant), and were used for games of skill involving trick-taking, as well as for gambling games, which were often prohibited. | | | The resulting cards were, of course, totally unusable for play when they had no corner-indices, and indeed the publishers of early packs recommended that the blank backs should be used as visiting cards (a very important item in high society). | | | In parts of India, games are played with packs of circular cards with eight, ten or more suits, whose designs reflect either the departmental structure of an Indian rajah's court or the incarnations of Vishnu (or other more complex systems), and are played something like Whist with no trumps but with extra complications. |
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http://i-p-c-s.org/history.html
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| | Card Throwing: A course on how to throw playing cards |
| | Cards for games, fortune telling, and so on have been popular around the world for a very long time. | | | Other cards like the key cards of some hotels aren't woven, and are thicker, but not as wide. | | | Alternative cards are not a good idea until you've mastered the "normal" card. |
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http://www.knifethrowing.info/throwing_cards.html
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| | Bicycle Playing Cards |
| | Bicycle Playing Cards are one of the oldest - they've been around since 1885 - and most recognizable brands of playing cards sold in the United States. | | | It's from a two-deck set of Canasta playing cards, and the modern bicycle on an old-fashioned fan is a subtle way of coordinating the bicycle theme with a card game that has a South American heritage. | | | In celebration of the Millennium, the United States Playing Card Company issued Bicycle 2000, a limited edition of two decks of playing cards in a tin. |
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http://www.djmcadam.com/bicycle-playing-cards.html
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| | Playing Card System |
| | Each playing card is associated with a planet in a particular order. | | | is the card furthest to the left, the next card has to be the furthest card to the right on the next row down because we are reading from right to left and from top to bottom. | | | After clicking on a playing card in the grid, you can then read a description for any day of birth associated with that card. |
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http://www.russellrowe.com/the_playing_card_system.htm
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| | R. Somerville (Playing Cards) - dealers in playing cards, Tarot cards & fortune telling cards. |
| | We have a range of around 2,500 different packs of playing cards, tarot cards and fortune telling cards which we sell over the internet and by mail order to card players and collectors all over the world. | | | Somerville (Playing Cards) - dealers in playing cards, Tarot cards and fortune telling cards. | | | As well as our considerable general catalogue, we also have a range of packs in a number of speciality areas which include packs for magicians, packs in unusual shapes and sizes, packs with large indices, packs of tarot cards for fortune telling and the game of tarot and standard regional pattern packs. |
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http://www.playingcardsales.co.uk
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| | CARD ART |
| | Main >> Entertainment & Games >> Card Games | | | Despite any number of books devoted to playing cards, their history is | | | playing cards has been defined as an object belonging to the |
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http://members.aol.com/alanta98/cardart.html
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| | Playing Cards Display |
| | Issue 1, 10/96 - 11/96: Handmade Playing Cards | | | Especially in Europe, where card playing is even more popular than in the US, packs made specially for tourists abound. | | | A celebration cum documentary on cannabis culture across the world, Laurence Cherniak's Hemp Culture Playing Cards are a joyful and irreverent slice of the social, agricultural, political and psychological world of cannabis. |
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http://www.guntheranderson.com/cards.htm
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| | Newt's Playing Cards |
| | COPAG playing cards are the hottest plastic playing cards on the market right now and you're going to love the price. | | | At Newt's you'll find shufflers, card holders, playing cards, poker chips and just about anything to do with playing cards! | | | Share your thoughts, favorite card game, playing card jokes and graphics about card playing or collecting with other folks of Newt's community! |
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| | Playing-Card Societies |
| | As many of our members have playing card interests which go far beyond this narrow range, we hope to appeal to all interests by not restricting the activities of the Club to American decks. | | | Awards annual Modiano Prize for a recently-published article or monograph which has contributed to the knowledge of some aspect of the origins and history of playing-cards or card games and their rules. | | | Chartophilia Sueciae, The Swedish Playing Card Society (Svenska spelkortssallskapet) |
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| | playing card publishers |
| | It took 400 years after the first playing cards were used in Europe (circa 1450 A.D.) for the first "double ended" court cards to appear. | | | Created to avoid re-arranging the cards with the "heads up" - and giving away your hand to other players, who could tell that you held court cards. | | | In addition, there's a stipulation in the contract that the US Playing Card Company and its 510 employees will remain in town. |
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http://www.dotpattern.com/gamecard/jokers/cardmakers/cardmakers.html
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| | USPC - Card Game Rules |
| | Over the years, card playing has brought pleasure to millions of people, but it wasn’t until 1887, that the United States Playing Card Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, issued the first edition of The Official Rules of Card Games. | | | Grandma playing Solitaire on a Sunday night...tuxedoed gentlemen and elegantly attired ladies indulging in Baccarat at Monte-Carlo... | | | giggling children playing a boisterous round of I Doubt It or Slapjack... |
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| | PC - Playing Cards and Card Games |
| | Information about playing cards, card games, playing card manufacturers, history and origin of playing cards and card games, links to playing card sites, a collection of playing cards. | | | The Reference Site for Card Games and Playing Cards. |
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http://playing-cards.us
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| | About the Cards |
| | All card elements are hand designed and antialiased, with all elements symmetrically aligned and centered. | | | The current version of the card pack lets you automatically reassemble the card elements into card images and runs of cards using Perl and PNM-tools. | | | Microsoft games such as Windows Solitaire, on the other hand, use the system font, are not antialiased, and are not even symmetrical, let alone evenly spaced. |
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http://www.waste.org/~oxymoron/cards
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| | The Playing Card Page |
| | Artists in Playing Cards - Published article about decks of playing cards designed by well-known artists. | | | It's In The Cards - Published article about political playing cards throughout history and from around the world. | | | My Love: Looking for Playing Cards - Published article about the history of playing cards, and the art and joy of collecting them. |
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http://www.bostin.com/cards
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| | Chicago Playing Card Collectors, Inc. |
| | This website is our latest venue for our members, also prospective members: people who, just like us, have found some facet of the playing cards "interesting" or "appealing." Here we also welcome friends, some old, perhaps some new. | | | There is something in the cards for every interest -- and for each, CPCC has much to offer. | | | While we offer further information, tips and help in most respects, please note: Per general policy we can not appraise specific old cards online. |
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http://www.cpccinc.org
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| | Jerry "The Flourishman" Cestkowski - Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes |
| | Jerry "The Flourishman" Cestkowski - Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes - Discussions | | | Jerry "The Flourishman" Cestkowski - Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes Difficulty of Tricks Taught | | | Jerry "The Flourishman" Cestkowski - Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes Appearance |
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http://www.21ace.com/Encyclopedia-Of-Playing-Card-Flourishes.php
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| | Playing card fonts |
| | His Playing Cards font can be found at Fontastic, Uncle Bear's, or Fontazm. | | | American designer of Hoyle Playing Cards Font (2004). | | | Check out Gyula Zsigri's cards font called "Cards" (1998). |
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| | E.P.C.S. Homepage |
| | A talk is usually given on an interesting topic relating to playing cards, and refreshments are available. | | | The Society Motif (left) is from "The History of Playing Cards" by Rev. E.S. Taylor (1865). | | | he purpose of the Society is to bring together collectors, researchers, manufacturers, museums and libraries, and all persons interested who wish to increase their knowledge of English playing cards and card games, their makers and designers. |
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http://wopc.co.uk/epcs
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| | Here's The Deal |
| | Some of the designs make clear reference to playing cards; others are more abstract. | | | All 55 Minnesota artists donated their artwork, and we placed no limitations upon them beyond requiring that works be of the size ratio to fit the playing card format. | | | It takes between 2 and 30 seconds to "deal all of the cards" depending on your connection, but it's well worth the wait. |
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http://www.theredeye.org/cardproject/heresthedeal.htm
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| | The Playing Card Oracles by Ana Cortez |
| | The Playing Card Oracles/Picture Book of Ana Cortez is 52-card Divination deck, accompanied by an inspiring and beautifully illustrated 280-page book containing a wealth of insights and ideas on playing card symbolism and meanings. | | | We are pleased to be featured on the World of Playing Cards web site, a great resource for anyone interested in playing cards! | | | The accompanying essays (stories) found throughout the book by C. Freeman (who, by the way, is the illustrator of the beautifully intriguing accompanied deck of playing cards!) are historically and mythologically enchanting! |
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http://theplayingcardoracles.com
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| | Card Playing Reading Tarot ... tarot modern playing cards ... |
| | I've used playing cards for reading for a number of years. | | | Gypsy tarot card reading allows one to read regular playing cards for predictions of the future, finances, health, love life and more. | | | The word 'spread' refers to the pattern in which the Tarot cards are lain for reading. |
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http://card-playing-reading-tarot.rikmedia.ru
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| | Parnell Playing Cards! Wyatt Earp, 1852-1887 Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson |
| | Faro was the most popular game in the American Wild West, as well as one of the wildest played in the wild saloons of the era. | | | We offer fine Faro Playing Cards wrapped in Packaging which showcases the legends of the era including Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday. | | | We offer a wide variety of products, specializing in authentic faro playing cards and faro games from the Wild West. |
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| | Extreme Programming Playing Cards |
| | Explanations, XP War, Retrospective Roulette and Value Squares are educational games you can play with your deck of cards. | | | This game, which is based on the old family card game War, is a fun way to learn about XP solutions and how some are more important than others. | | | We're working on new games all of the time and if you invent a game or give us valuable feedback on a game, we'd be happy to send you a gift, such as a deck of our Design Patterns Playing Cards. |
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http://www.industriallogic.com/games/eppc.html
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| | Andy's Playing Cards - Playing Card Picture Gallery Index |
| | Andy's Playing Cards - Playing Card Picture Gallery Index | | | China : the historical notes about Chinese cards have been revised and lengthened. | | | Japan : the cartoon Hanafuda page features a new edition, and has been split into two parts, for an easier loading; also the thin cards page features two new editions. |
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http://a_pollett.tripod.com/cardpgal.htm
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| | "55 Most Wanted" Playing Card Deck for U.S. Regime Change |
| | Now, in the hopes of accelerating this process, the TRO is issuing a brand new card deck along with a game that can be played in groups of two or more, and whose aims are: | | | In an effort to involve larger numbers of citizens in the discovery process that will lead to U.S. regime change, the Trade Regulation Organization has issued an educational board game called "Try 'em." | | | "55 Most Wanted" Playing Card Deck for U.S. Regime Change |
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| | Handmade Playing Cards |
| | to the internet site of the Mount Hood Playing Card Company. |
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| | PLAYING CARD |
| | The public release of SynthKit will take Korg along a similar path to the one that Creamware are already treading with their SCOPE and Pulsar cards. | | | 56 Rogue-ish: rich, springy Moog-style bass/lead sound, using the Pro Synth Mod model, played mono legato with last-key priority. | | | The card's DSP power constrains the number of simultaneous Programs and Effects. |
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http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr00/articles/korgoasys.htm
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| | Drew Perry |
| | Then I placed the batteries back where they should go and tucked all the wires into place. | | | Then I got out my glue again and stuck the card case back together again. | | | Basically I made a little bit of card which held onto all the sides of the firewire socket and was also stuck to two sides of the card case. |
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| | Custom printed playing card Manufacturer, custom card games, photo playing cards, custom playing cards, customized ... |
| | Custom printed playing card Manufacturer, custom card games, photo playing cards, custom playing cards, customized playing cards, personalized playing cards, calendar cards and promotional products | | | Printers, Ad agencies, Design Shops Ask us for reseller discounts |
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| | Playing Cards |
| | To use Tux or the BSD Daemon as the Ace of Spades, save the appropriate card image above, and replace "2.png". | | | To the best of my knowledge, the images used in any "standard" French/British 52 card deck are public domain. | | | The "Windows" cards were originally designed by Susan Kare for Microsoft. |
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| | Encyclopedia Performance DVD |
| | We bet "The Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes: Cover to Cover" will be prove to be one of your most watched and re-watched sets of DVDs. | | | This means that except for the preliminary lessons about care and treatment of cards, there aren't any teaching sequences. | | | There are also instructions for powdering cards, working in the deck and avoiding card-condition pitfalls. |
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| | Playing Cards |
| | Your cards need to be protected and secured. | | | The ideal album for old and modern playing cards. | | | All material that comes in contact with your playing cards is archival quality and is 100% free of plasticizers (chemical softening agents) and free of stearates. |
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http://www.safepub.com/Catalog/cards/playcard.htm
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| | The Flourishman |
| | The Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes is the first of its kind. | | | This current, comprehensive treatment of fancy card manipulation will teach you everything from the Charlier Pass to juggling cards. | | | With 2,800 photographs and a wealth of informative accompanying instructions, this massive book will keep you busy for years. |
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http://www.flourishman.com
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