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500 Rum is a card game variation of rummy in which points are scored for cards melded, and lost for unmelded cards remaining in a player's hand when someone goes out. The game is won by the first player to reach a cumulative score of 500 or more over a series of hands. In this game you are not restricted to taking only the top card of the discard pile - more than one card can be taken in order to reach a card lower down which you can use in a meld.
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A.C. Milan are an Italian Association Football club. They were founded in 1889. They won the Italian Championship in 1901 next in 1951.
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Aberdeen F.C. are a Scottish Association Football club. They were formed in 1903, entering the Scottish league in 1905, continuously playing in the top division. They were the first team to win the Scottish League Cup in 1946 when the competition was started. Aberdeen F.C. play at Pittodrie Park, Aberdeen.
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In gambling, an accumulator bet a single bet which is linked on a number of other wagers, and the outcome is dependent on all the wagers winning. Odds for the accumulator are higher than those in a single bet, however they are below that of the true odds. The accumulator bet provides the gambler with a potentially high return for a relatively low stake, at an obviously reduced probability of realising a win.
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In tennis terms an ace is a non-returnable serve.
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In card games, the term ace high refers to an ace as being the top scoring card.
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In card games, the term ace low refers to an ace as being the lowest scoring card with a value of one.
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The Actian Games were games instituted by Augustus to celebrate his naval victory over Antony, and held every five years.
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The Admiral's Cup is a yachting trophy competed for biennially by representative three-boat teams of offshore racing yachts. The competition is comprised of two offshore and two inshore races which are sailed on odd-numbered years coinciding with Cowes Week.
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Agurk (cucumber) is a kind of trick taking card game, where the player to take the last trick of each deal receives a penalty. The game was played extensively at DIKU in the 1970s. Even before then, variants of it were popular with bridge players in Denmark and Southern Sweden. A similar game, Ogorok (also meaning cucumber) is played in Poland.
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The Alabama Angels are an American Association Football team based in Birmingham, Alabama.
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In golf, an albatross (also known as a double eagle) is three strokes less than par.
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Alcalde is a card game variation of Brisca for three players, played with the 40-card Spanish deck.
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Alkort is an Icelandic card game for four players, who play in two partnerships of two. An ordinary pack of cards is used but the 10s and 5s are taken out (leaving 44 cards).
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All Fives is the name of a card game and also a domino game (Five-Up). The card game All Fives is a variation of All Fours for two or three players, in which additional points are scored for taking certain trump cards in tricks: Ace=4; K=3; Q=2; J=1; 10=10; 5=5. Having introduced these extra points, some players have dropped the original points for high, low jack and game.
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All fours is a game at cards, which derives its name from the four chances of which it consists, for each of which a point is scored. These chances are high, or the ace of trumps, or next best trump out; low, or the deuce of trumps, or next lowest trump out; jack, or the knave of trumps; game, the majority of pips collected from the tricks taken by the respective players. The player who has all these is said to have all-fours. It is played by two or four persons with the full pack. The ace counts four, the king three, queen two, knave one, and the ten card ten.
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Aluette (or la Vache, 'The Cow Game') is a card game played in Vendee and the coasts of Brittany, using a 48- card Spanish suited deck with special designs.
Aluette is a very peculiar trick-taking game where suits are irrelevant. Partners use mimics to signal their hands. The mechanism is similar to that of early games like Truc / Trut and Put. The use of Spanish suited cards is surprising, but there is a theory that these suits were originally used throughout France and were displaced in most of the country by French suits when those were invented.
Aluette may be an extremely old game: some late 15th-century records from the South-West of France mention a card game called Luettes. However, Nantes clearly appears as the modern cradle of the game: until c. 1700 there was in Nantes a large group of Spanish merchants, and Spanish suited cards made in Thiers (Auvergne) were conveyed on the Loire river up to Nantes where they were shipped to Bilbao and Navarra. The hypothesis of a late introduction (perhaps during the 17th century) through Spanish merchants in Nantes is not unlikely.
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American Football is an 11-a-side team game played with an oval leather ball on a rectangular field of grass or artificial turf.
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Angel-beast was a round game of cards popular in the 19th century, which enabled gentlemen to let the ladies win small stakes. Five cards are dealt to each player, and three heaps formed - one for the king, one for play, the third for Triolet. The name of the game was la bete (beast). Angel was the stake.
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In gambling card games the ante is the initial amount each player places into the pool at the start of the game.
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Aquabobbing is a water sport performed on a vehicle like a tricycle, with three water skis in place of wheels, which is towed over the water by a motor launch on the same principle as water-skiing.
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Archery is the sport of shooting with a bow and arrow. An ancient sport, originally employed for hunting and then for warfare, it originated the English game of darts and is the national sport of Bhutan. There are two main games of
archery - target archery which involves shooting arrows at circular targets; and field archery which involves shooting arrows at targets resembling game animals, such as deer.
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The Arizona Phoenix are an American Association Football team based at Glendale, Arizona.
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Arsenal F.C. is an Association Football Club which was founded in 1886 by a group of workmen in a section of the Royal Arsenal establishment at Woolwich, London, and called Dial Square. The club became professional in 1891 and was elected to the Second Division of the Football League in 1893. It became Woolwich Arsenal in 1896 and adopted its present name in 1913 when it moved from Plumstead in south London to Highbury, north of the river Thames. Arsenal won the FA Cup in 1993 and again in 1998.
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The Art Ross Trophy is an ice hockey trophy awarded annually in the national hockey league of North America to the player who leads the league in scoring points at the end of the regular season.
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The Ascot Gold Cup is an English horse racing meeting. It was first held at Ascot in 1807, and is still run each June over 2.5 miles. At the 1907 centenary race, the prize cup was stolen from the grand stand.
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Association Football is a variation of football played at Cambridge in the first half of the 19th century. A code of rules forbidding the use of hands was drawn up in 1863, and officially adopted by the Football Association, the governing body of the game, which was formed in the same year.
Association football is played by teams of 11 a side with a spherical inflated leather ball 27-28 inches in circumference and about 14 ounces in weight. The ground is 120 yards long and 80 yards wide having a goal at each end 8 yards wide with a cross bar 8 feet above the ground. The match is played in two halves each of 45 minutes with a 5 minute interval at half-time.
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Aston Villa F.C. is an Association Football club which was founded at Villa Cross, Handsworth in Birmingham in 1874 by some youths connected with a Wesleyan church, and was one of the original members of the Football League in 1888. Aston Villa F.C. won the Birmingham Association Cup in 1880 and first won the League Championship in 1893-4 and won it four more times before the Great War. Aston Villa F.C. played at Pery Bar until 1887 when they moved to Aston and won the FA Cup in the same year.
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Athletics is the sport of physical games.
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The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team. The team first played in the National League in 1966 following the transfer of the franchise from Milwaukee. In 1969 they won the Western Division title.
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The augustales were games held in honour of Augustus at Rome and other parts of the Roman empire. After 11BC the senate decreed their celebration annually on the birthday of Augustus.
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Aunt Sally was a game in which a wooden head was mounted upon a pole. The fun of the game was to knock the nose off the figure, or break the pipe stuck in its mouth. This was done by throwing a short club at the figure from a stated distance.
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Aust Ball is a German bat-and-ball team game of the fives-tennis type and a forerunner of volleyball. It is played between two teams of five players each. The ball is 25-28 inches in diameter and weighs about 12 ounces and is hit with one fist. The object of the game is to hit and return the ball over a rope two meters high.
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The Austin Lone Stars are an American Association Football team based at Austin, Texas. They joined the USISL in 1987.
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Australian Rules Football is a fast moving team game with few rules. A team consists of 18 players. A game consists of four quarters of 25 minutes each and is played on an oval pitch 110 meters wide and 135 meters long.
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In patience card games, an available card is a card that can be used to play.
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The Lithuanian game Avinas ('Rams' in English) is a trick-taking card game for two pairs of players. Each player sits opposite his partner. It is especially popular around the town of Jurbarkas (on the river Niemen, between Kaunas and the western border). On holidays players left off playing only to go to Mass.
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The AVUS Race Track was a German motor racing track used to host the 1926 and 1959 German Grand Prix. It was opened in September 1921, and fell into disuse in 1967.
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The axel is a standard movement in figure skating named after its inventor,
Axel Paulsen. It is a jump involving one and a half turns in the air. The take-off begins from an outside edge of one skate, landing on the back outside edge of the other skate.
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The axel lift is a movement in pairs figure skating. The woman is turned one and a half times completely over her partner's head. After holding hands on one side, she is supported in the lift by the man's hand under her armpit. The lift begins from the woman's outside forward edge and is completed on the outside back edge of her opposite skate. The man rotates beneath the woman throughout the movement.
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