All point-trick games are played with tarot decks or stripped decks, which in many countries became standard before 1600, and neither point-trick games nor stripped decks have a tradition in England.

The game of tarot has many cultural variations.

The novel is an exploration of how meaning is created, whether that be written via words ( by the author, via the book, since the characters in the book cannot speak to each other ) or by images ( the tarot cards — considered prophetic to some and are themselves open to many symbolic interpretations ).

The Rider-Waite tarot deck has been vastly influential in the development of later divinatory tarot decks to the extent that many are called ' Rider-Waite clones ' because they closely follow the symbolism and imagery of the Rider-Waite deck.

Examples of Rider-Waite clones ( some arguably so ) include the Universal Waite tarot deck, Golden Tarot, Aquarian tarot deck, Nigel Jackson Tarot, Gilded Tarot, Golden Rider, and many more.

Some traditions of Stregheria use the ritual tools of cup, wand, pentacle and blade, which are seen in the suits of occult or divinatory tarot cards and amongst many systems of Western occultism.

Like many of Powers ' novels, Last Call features a detailed magic system, here based on divinatory tarot, and draws on mythical or historical events and characters, in this case Bugsy Siegel and the development of Las Vegas casinos as well as the legend of the Fisher King.

The novel has always been popular with readers, many of whom have found it, for all its social subtleties, a roller-coaster of a read ; but it took a decade-and-a-half for cyberpunk writers and readers to begin praising its handling of drugs, tarot cards, and its off-hand presentation of racial variety, its narrative energy and sense of historical sweep, and finally its exploration of the relationship between politics and art — indeed, for the cyberpunk writers it soon became an iconic text.

This little spot has been referred to as Singapore's " Bohemian " enclave because of its variety of art and craft shops, art galleries, art framing specialists, street cobblers, gift shops, novelty shops, gourmet takeaway outlets, wine cellars, organic food outlets, custom-made shoes shop, imported kitchenware store, body waxing specialists, international school uniform tailors, master tailors, theme party clothing store, tarot card readers, ethnic home decor articles, fine dining restaurants and many other interesting shops.

" Like its predecessor, The Fool and His Money will contain many different types of logic and word puzzles that center around a story with a medieval tarot deck theme.

The considerable complexity and additional hardware limited VHS Hi-Fi to high-end decks for many years.

The steel plates and superstructure on the upper decks were torn to pieces, and the splinters caused many casualties.

While the flight decks of U. S. and European airliners do have ex-military pilots, many pilots are civilians.

In English-speaking countries, a standard deck of Anglo-American bridge / poker playing cards ( i. e., 52-card, four-suit set ) can be used in the cartomancy reading ; the deck is often augmented with jokers, and even with the blank card found in many packaged decks.

Although many variations exist for 2, 3, 5 or 6 players, it is most commonly played by four in two partnerships with two standard decks of cards.

In many decks, each has a number ( usually in Roman numerals ) and a name, though not all decks have both, and some have only a picture.

The earliest decks bore unnamed and unnumbered pictures on the Majors ( probably because a great many of the people using them at the time were illiterate ), and the order of cards was not standardized.

The Minor Arcana are illustrated with detailed scenes and images by Smith, again a departure from many earlier decks with much simpler designs for the Minor Arcana ( but aligning this deck with, for example, the Sola Busca Tarot ).

* Magician cards from many decks + iconographical articles

In the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck, upon which many modern decks are based, The High Priestess is identified with the Shekhinah, the female indwelling presence of the divine.

* " Popess " cards from many decks and articles to " Popess " iconography

The islands are surrounded by shipwrecks, and even today many containers wash ashore that are blown off the decks of cargo ships in the North Sea.

In many decks she can be shown as pregnant.

* " Empress " cards from many decks

* " Pope " cards from many decks and articles to " Pope " iconography

Historically, the ace had the lowest value and this still holds in many popular European games ( in fact most European decks, including the French Tarot Nouveau, do not use the " A " index, instead keeping the numeral " 1 ").

Cassette decks were eventually manufactured by almost every well known brand in home audio, and many in professional audio,

This was used in many higher-end decks.

Balsa wood is also used in laminates with glass-reinforced plastic ( fiberglass ) for making high-quality balsa surfboards and the decks and topsides of many types of boats, especially pleasure craft under in length.

A major activity in many unit record shops was sorting decks of punch card into the proper order as determined by information punched in the card.

Research, on the other hand, has shown many stepmothers to be eminently successful, some far better than the real mothers.

Some are fishing, some driving the team, and many are sitting indolently on the banks of the river.

This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.

When these fields are surveyed together, important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence, a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions, primarily literary, religious, and philosophical, but frequently including contact with the fine arts and even, to some extent, with science.

In this play there were some thirty or more named characters and I don't know how many more unnamed.

He smoked, as did everybody, and imbibed the various alcoholic beverages of that day, although his protestations while at Cambridge and after that he was no drunkard point to reasonable abstinence from the wild drinking bouts of some of the undergraduates and, we must add, of some of their elders including many of the regents or teachers.

To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

There were not many chairs, so that some preferred to sit on the edge of the porch, resting their feet on the ground, and others liked to sit where they could lean back against the wall.

With the existence of these many factors, some of them variable, it obviously has never been and is not now possible for the Commission to make assignments of AM stations on a case-to-case basis which will insure against any interference in any circumstances.

In the allocation pattern worked out for these frequencies, the provision of long-range service has to some extent been subordinated to the other two objectives -- assignment of multiple facilities, and assignment of stations in as many communities as possible.

And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.

Of special interest this anniversary year of the war between the states are the many Civil War battlefields where, likely as not, you'll catch some memorial re-enactments.

Foliage is the outstanding photo subject in many of the Southern locales mentioned above and some specific tips on how and where to shoot it are in order.

Try some closeups on Southern blossoms to provide a welcome contrast with the many long-view scenics you'll be making.

There is much that many industries can continue to learn from some of the more recent developments described below.

Even though the registers may have an incomplete record of persons present in a particular area or include persons no longer living there, they contain precise information on ages, by date of birth, for some of the persons present ( especially children in relatively stable communities ) and supplementary information ( such as records of marital status ) for many others.

This `` grand division '' permits many costs to be assigned in their entirety to some one class, such as street lighting, or at least to be excluded completely from some important class or classes.

It is a matter of some disappointment to me that still many of my own countrymen are too shortsighted to ascribe any symbolic significance to the plight of a minority, such as artists, in any social order.

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).