Playing Cards Around the World and Through the Ages
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The complicated lineage of our ubiquitous decks. The standard 52-card deck (54 with these guys) is common, but not universal. Toni Reed/Unsplash – by Dan Nosowitz, 2020 Jul 13 – The history of playing cards is, in one major way, just like the …