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  2. Spanish-suited playing cards - Wikipedia

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    Spanish-suited playing cards. Castilian pattern introduced by Heraclio Fournier. Spanish-suited playing cards or Spanish-suited cards have four suits, and a deck is usually made up of 40 or 48 cards (or even 50 by including two jokers ). It is categorized as a Latin-suited deck and has strong similarities with the Portuguese-suited deck ...

  3. Major Arcana - Wikipedia

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    The Major Arcana cards redesigned by Roberto Viesi. The Major Arcana are the named cards in a cartomantic tarot pack. There are usually 22 such cards in a standard 78-card pack, typically numbered from 0 to 21 (or 1 to 21, with the Fool being left unnumbered). Although the cards correspond to the trump cards of a pack used for playing tarot ...

  4. Tarot - Wikipedia

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    Tarot ( / ˈtæroʊ /, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini. From their Italian roots, tarot-playing cards spread to most of Europe, evolving into a family of games that includes German ...

  5. Ace of Cups - Wikipedia

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    The Ace of Cups is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards (Italian, Spanish and tarot decks ). It is the ace from the suit of cups. In Tarot, it is part of what card readers call the "Minor Arcana", and as the first in the suit of cups, signifies beginnings in the area of the social and emotional in life. Tarot cards are used throughout much ...

  6. Cups (suit) - Wikipedia

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    Invented. 15th century. The suit of cups from an 18th-century Venetian pack. The suit of cups is one of the four card suits used in Latin-suited playing cards alongside coins, swords and batons. These suits are used in Spanish, Italian and some tarot card packs. Symbol on Italian pattern cards: Symbol on Spanish pattern cards: Symbol on French ...

  7. The High Priestess - Wikipedia

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    The High Priestess (II) is the second Major Arcana card in cartomantic Tarot decks. It is based on the 2nd trump of Tarot card packs. In the first Tarot pack with inscriptions, the 18th-century woodcut Tarot de Marseilles, this figure is crowned with the Papal tiara and labelled La Papesse, the Popess, a possible reference to the legend of Pope ...

  8. Tarot card games - Wikipedia

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    Tarot card games. Hungarian statesmen playing tarokk in 1895, the preferred card game of the pre-communist era. [1] Tarot games are card games played with tarot packs designed for card play and which have a permanent trump suit alongside the usual four card suits. The games and packs which English-speakers call by the French name tarot are ...

  9. Alfredo Galán - Wikipedia

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    Alfredo Galán was born in Puertollano, province of Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. Galán became class president in high school, but was remembered as unremarkable and introverted. In September 1998, he joined the Spanish Army and became a corporal in the 31st Mech Regiment "Asturias" of Madrid and participated in humanitarian missions ...