Games scholar David Parlett has written that the Western card games Conquian and Rummy were derived from Mahjong.

David Parlett ( born 1939 ) is a games scholar from South London, who has studied both card games and board games.

Culbertson has regularly appeared live on many radio stations including KTWV in Los Angeles and the UK's Solar radio with Michael J. Parlett.

In the late 1940s Parlett was also a writer and artist for J. Arthur Rank's GB Animation ' Animaland ' cartoons.

Penguin is a solitaire card game, invented by David Parlett, which uses a deck of 52 playing cards.

Hare and Tortoise is a German-style board game designed by David Parlett in 1974 and first published by Intellect Games.

The Mexican game of Conquian is considered by David Parlett to be ancestral to all rummy games, which itself is derived from a Chinese game called Khanhoo and, going even further back, Mahjong.

Invented by David Parlett, this game belongs to the family of solitaire games that includes Spider and Scorpion.

According to David Parlett, the game is still very much played in central Europe and Spain with Italian-suited cards under the name of Goffo or Bambara, remaining the major native vying game of Italy.

Invented by David Parlett, this game's objective is to compress the entire deck into one foundation.

* 2 August-Reg Parlett, English comics artist ( d. 1991 ).

* 18 November – Reg Parlett, English comics artist ( b. 1904 ).

Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

In addition, our way of dealing directly with natural phenomena has also changed.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

Today the private detective will also investigate insurance claims or handle divorce cases, but his primary function remains what it has always been, to assist those who have money in their unending struggle with those who have not.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

He has also enjoyed a successful career as an entertainer ( his records have sold in the millions ) and is a sharp businessman.

He has also an extraordinary conscience.

Mercer has also written both music and lyrics for several songs.

A slow and painful trend toward unification has taken hold, a trend which may at any time be arrested and reversed but which may also lead to a binding federation of Europe.

His successor, Secretary Goldberg, also has been guessing wrong on a drop in the unemployment rate which has been holding just under 7 per cent for the last 11 months.

St. Louis county under its present leadership also has largely closed its eyes to the need for governmental reform, and permitted parochial interests to take priority over area-wide interests.

Since the Connally amendment has the effect of giving the same right to the other party to a dispute with the United States, it also prevents us from using the court effectively.

But a realization that each group has much of substance to learn from the other also developed, and a strong conviction grew that each had insights and dimensions to contribute to ethically acceptable solutions of urgent political issues.

And so, let us remember on this day not only to thank the Almighty Who gave hope and courage to the Pilgrims, but also to place our trust in Him that He will continue to protect us in the future as He has in the past.

It has also been observed, in helium 2, that large discrepancies can exist between surface vapor pressures and those pressures measured by a vapor pressure thermometer.

I am also pleased to note that Mr. John B. Oakes, a member of the Times staff since 1946, has been appointed as editorial page editor.

Since then, there has been a notable increase in the number of stations and also the accumulation of additional data and the development of new techniques for using it, leading to a better understanding of propagation phenomena.

The president has little influence in day-by-day curricular changes, but if he looks ahead two, three, or five years to anticipate issues and throw out challenging ideas, he can open the way for innovation, and he can also have a great deal to say as to what path it will take.

If the superintendents do not receive more cooperation from Handlers, it has been suggested that licensed Judges also be qualified to judge this Class.

A beginner's shotgun has also been introduced this year.

Originally invented in the 1980s in the Eastern Asia region, bubble tea has since become popular in Australia, USA and Europe.

The term BIOS ( Basic Input / Output System ) was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP / M operating system in 1975, describing the machine-specific part of CP / M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware ( a CP / M machine usually has only a simple boot loader in its ROM ).

He invented the Labyrinth, the main setting of the book, and has a pet Hell Hound called Mrs. O ' Leery.

The " okedō " has its own upright stand which was invented by Asano Taiko Drum Company.

( The term " ambigram " was invented by Hofstadter in 1984 and has since been taken up by many ambigrammists all over the world.

Since about year 2000, with the power of computers to crunch vast quantities of data, a new career has been invented.

Chesterfield Museum in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, has a gallery of Stephenson memorabilia, including the straight thick glass tubes that he invented for the purpose of growing straight cucumbers.

Roller hockey, also known as quad hockey, international-style ball hockey, and Hoquei em Patins is an overarching name for a roller sport that has existed since long before inline skates were invented.

First invented in 1883, the six-stroke engine has seen renewed interest over the last 20 or so years.

In the 1970s, Canadian Keith Johnstone invented Theatresports that has become a staple of modern improvisational comedy.

Aasen holds perhaps an isolated place in literary history as the one man who has invented, or at least selected and constructed, a language which has pleased so many thousands of his countrymen that they have accepted it for their schools, their sermons and their songs.

Mullis has also invented a UV-sensitive plastic that changes color in response to light, and most recently has been working on an approach for mobilizing the immune system to neutralize invading pathogens and toxins, leading to the formation of his current venture, Altermune LLC.

However, the La Marle interpretation of Linear A has been rejected by John Younger of Kansas University showing that La Marle has invented erroneous and arbitrary new transcriptions based on resemblances with many different script systems at will ( as Phoenician, Hieroglyphic Egyptian, Hieroglyphic Hittite, Ethiopian, Cypro-Minoan, etc.

Mark Nelson, frustrated over many cranks trying to claim having invented a magic compression algorithm appearing in comp. compression, has constructed a 415, 241 byte binary file () of highly entropic content, and issued a public challenge of $ 100 to anyone to write a program that, together with its input, would be smaller than his provided binary data yet be able to reconstitute (" decompress ") it without error.

The only aether which has survived is that which was invented by Huygens to explain the propagation of light.

However, by now most such languages have borrowed the numeral system or part of the numeral system of a national or colonial language, though in a few cases ( such as Guarani ), a numeral system has been invented internally rather than borrowed.

The theory has been advanced that New Coke, as the reformulated drink came to be known, was invented specifically in response to the Pepsi Challenge.

Originally invented in Naples, Italy, the dish has since become popular in many parts of the world.

The possibility of aquatic locomotion via swimming has been discussed briefly in several papers ( Bennett 2001, 1994, and Bramwell & Whitfield 1974 ), and has been studied in detail at Michigan State University through the use of morphometrics and an extant phylogenetic bracket ( a morphologically comparative technique invented by Larry Witmer ).

In his work, Antidosis, Isocrates states, " we have come together and founded cities and made laws and invented arts ; and, generally speaking, there is not institution devised by man which the power of speech has not helped us to establish ".

Roller Hockey is the overarching name for a rollersport that has existed long before inline skates were " re-invented " in the 70s ( They were actually invented before quads, in the 1760s ).