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Poker 
 A player can decide to throw away a number of these cards and then take (draw) new cards to replace them.
Poker 
 In stud poker (for example, seven-card stud), some of each player's cards are laid (face-up) on the table so that the other players can see them.
Poker 
 In community card poker (for example, Texas hold 'em), players share some of their cards in the center of the table.
Poker 
 The name of the game likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ('to knock'), but it is not clear whether the origins of poker itself lie with the games bearing those names.
Poker 
 It closely resembles the Persian game of as nas, and may have been taught to French settlers in New Orleans by Persian sailors.
Poker 
 It is commonly regarded as sharing ancestry with the Renaissance game of primero and the French brelan.
Poker 
 The English game brag (earlier bragg) clearly descended from brelan and incorporated bluffing (though the concept was known in other games by that time).
Poker 
 It is quite possible that all of these earlier games influenced the development of poker as it exists now.
Poker 
 English actor Joseph Crowell reported that the game was played in New Orleans in 1829, with a deck of 20 cards, four players betting on which player's hand was the most valuable.
Poker 
 Jonathan H. Green's book, An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling (G. B. Zieber, Philadelphia, 1843), described the spread of the game from there to the rest of the country by Mississippi riverboats, on which gambling was a common pastime.
Poker 
 During the American Civil War, many additions were made, including draw poker, stud poker (the five-card variant), and the straight.
Poker 
 Further American developments followed, such as the wild card (around 1875), lowball and split-pot poker (around 1900), and community card poker games (around 1925).
Poker 
 Spread of the game to other countries, particularly in Asia, is often attributed to the U.S. military.
Poker 
 Such phrases as ace in the hole, beats me, blue chip, call the bluff, cash in, pass the buck, poker face, stack up, up the ante, when the chips are down, wild card, and others are used in everyday conversation even by those unaware of their origins at the poker table.
Poker 
 Modern tournament play became popular in American casinos after the World Series of Poker began in 1970.
Poker 
 It was also during that decade that the first serious strategy books appeared, notably The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky (), Super System by Doyle Brunson (),  and The Book of Tells by Mike Caro ().
Poker 
 Poker’s popularity has experienced an unprecedented spike in recent years, largely due to the introduction of online poker and the invention of the hole-card camera which finally turned the game into a spectator sport.
Poker 
 Viewers can now follow the action and drama of the game, and broadcasts of poker tournaments such as the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour have brought in huge audiences for cable and satellite TV distributors.
Poker 
 The game of poker is played in hundreds of variations, but the following overview of game play applies to most of them.
Poker 
 Depending on the game rules, one or more players may be required to place an initial amount of money into the pot before the cards are dealt.
Poker 
 In a casino a "house" dealer handles the cards for each hand, but a button (any small item used as a marker, also called a buck) is rotated among the players to determine the order of dealing and betting in certain games.
Poker 
 In a home game, the right to deal the cards typically rotates among the players clockwise, but a button may still be used.
Poker 
 Between rounds, the players' hands develop in some way, often by being dealt additional cards or replacing cards previously dealt.
Poker 
 During a round of betting, there will always be a current bet amount, which is the total amount of money bet in this round by the player who bet last in this round.
Poker 
 To keep better track of this, it is conventional for players to not place their bets directly into the pot (called splashing the pot), but rather place them in front of themselves toward the pot, until the betting round is over.
Poker 
 After the first betting round is completed (every participating player having called an equal amount), there may be more rounds in which more cards are dealt in various ways, followed by further rounds of betting (into the same central pot).
Poker 
 At any time during the first or subsequent betting rounds, if one player makes a bet and all other players fold, the deal ends immediately, the single remaining player is awarded the pot, no cards are shown, no more rounds are dealt, and the next deal begins.
Poker 
 At the end of the last betting round, if more than one player remains, there is a showdown in which the players reveal their previously hidden cards and evaluate their hands.
Poker 
 Straight flush:  Five cards of the same suit in sequence (if those five are A, K, Q, J, 10; it is a Royal Flush)
Poker 
 Modern poker traces its roots towards the 1800s, and in those days, players used what you could to help keep a tally.
Poker 
 Coins, gold dust and nuggets were used until they considered replacing with something which would indicate them.
Poker 
 With time, other manufacturers could use many other materials for making casino chips, for example, plastic and metal.
El Salvador 
 El Salvador borders the Pacific Ocean on the south, and the countries of Guatemala to the west and Honduras to the north and east.
El Salvador 
 In 2010 El Salvador ranked in the top 10 Latin American countries in terms of Human Development Index.
El Salvador 
 Also, tropical forests and overall forests have expanded by nearly 20% from the year 1992 to 2010, making it one of the few countries experiencing reforestation.
El Salvador 
 In September 2021, the country began accepting Bitcoin as an official currency, making it the first country to do so.
El Salvador 
 The civilization of El Salvador began around 1500 B.C., leaving an evidence that would be the Tazumal Ruins and Chalchuapa Ruins.
El Salvador 
 The first habitants were Pocomanes, Lencas and Pipiles; they stayed in the middle and east zone of El Salvador until about the eleventh century.
El Salvador 
 The Spaniard Andrés Niño led an expedition from Central America and arrived in Meanguera Island in the Gulf of Fonseca on May 31, 1522.
El Salvador 
 In June of 1524, Pedro de Alvarado began a war of conquest against Cuzcatlán (Land of beautiful things) that was populated by native tribes of the country.
El Salvador 
 Pedro de Alvarado, deterred and injured, left the battle and set off to Guatemala, leaving his brother, Gonzalo de Alvarado, to continue the conquest of Cuzcatlan.
El Salvador 
 After this, their cousin, Diego de Alvardo established the San Salvador Ville on April 1525 in a site named La Bermuda, near Suchitoto City.
El Salvador 
 On the morning of November 5th, 1811, the priest José Matías Delgado rang the bells of La Merced Church in San Salvador, calling for an uprising.
El Salvador 
 After many internal conflicts, the Declaration of Independence of Central América was signed in Guatemala on September 15th, 1821.
El Salvador 
 As the smallest country in continental America, El Salvador is sometimes called Pulgarcito de America (the "Tom Thumb of the Americas").
El Salvador 
 The capital San Salvador was destroyed in 1756 and 1854, and it suffered heavy damage in the 1919, 1982, and 1986 tremors.
El Salvador 
 Of these six nest on the coasts of Central America, and four make their home on the Salvadoran coast: the leatherback turtle, the hawksbill, the Galapagos green turtle and the olive ridley sea turtle.
El Salvador 
 It is estimated that there are 500 species of birds, 1,000 species of butterflies, 400 species of orchids, 800 species of trees, and 800 species of marine fish in El Salvador.
El Salvador 
 There are 4 national parks in El Salvador: El Imposible, Los Volcanes, Montecristo, and San Diego y San Felipe Las Barras.
Fragaria 
 is the Latin name used in science for the genus of about 20 species of strawberries, plants in the rose family that grow small sweet red fruit.
Fragaria 
 Name is a Latin word for the group of "strawberry-like" plants, formed by putting  ("strawberry") together with the ending , which here means something close to the English "-like".
Fragaria 
 Dutch people learned how to eat them through most of the year by planting their seeds at different times, letting them harvest for 9 months out of 12.
Fragaria 
 The Alpine strawberry became popular around the 1650s because it was a little bigger and could grow in places with less strong sunlight, like the British islands in the late fall.
Fragaria 
 Today's bigger "garden" strawberry was first made around Brest in Brittany (northwest France) in the 1750s.
Fragaria 
 It was made by joining the Virginia strawberry from eastern North America to the European Hautbois and the Chilean strawberry from western South America.
Fragaria 
 The real fruit of the strawberries are the achenes, which people usually think of as the little seeds around the outside of the larger red "fruit".
Fragaria 
 This kind of fruit, where different ovaries grow into a single larger fruit, is called an "aggregate fruit".
1859 
 January 24 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions are still missing at that time).
Paul Simon 
 He is of Jewish descent and became famous as a member of Simon and Garfunkel, with his friend, Art Garfunkel.
Paul Simon 
 The two went their separate ways in the early 1970s and since then Simon has become a successful solo artist.
Paul Simon 
 Paul Simon had his first success in 1958 when his song "Hey Schoolgirl" got to Number 49 on the US charts.
Paul Simon 
 Some of Simon's most famous songs include "Slip Sliding Away", "American Tune", "Late in the Evening", "Still Crazy After All These Years", "Me and Julio Down By the School Yard" and "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover".
Paul Simon 
 Simon has received three honorary doctorates in music, including one from Yale University and one from Berklee College of Music.
Shirley Jones 
 She was married to Jack Cassidy, from 1956 to 1977, and had three sons with him, Shaun, Patrick, and Ryan.
DeForest Kelley 
 Kelley is most famous for his role as Dr. Leonard McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek and the six movies that followed.
DeForest Kelley 
 Also known as well as an older Admiral Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Fleet Surgeon General Emeritus, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television pilot, "Encounter at Farpoint".
Forestry 
 They makes sure that forests are not destroyed by wildfires before they are ready to use for timber production (cutting down trees to use the wood).
Forestry 
 They are very important today because humans produce a lot of carbon dioxide and the trees in forests help to turn this back into oxygen, which we breathe to live.
List of United States soccer teams 
 Formed in 2021, starting play in 2022, as a dedicated MLS developmental league also at the third level.
List of United States soccer teams 
 Of the 21 teams in the first season, only Rochester New York FC is not owned and operated by an MLS team.
List of United States soccer teams 
 BYU Cougars – owned and operated by Brigham Young University, but not part of the school's NCAA athletic department
List of United States soccer teams 
 The first, the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), was founded in 2001, but folded due to large debts after the 2003 season.
List of United States soccer teams 
 The second, Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), was effectively a successor to WUSA, although it did not begin until 2009.
List of United States soccer teams 
 Like WUSA before it, WPS played three seasons, but also lost large amounts of money; it first decided not to play its planned 2012 season, and then completely folded in May of that year.
List of United States soccer teams 
 After WPS folded, the effective top level of women's soccer in the U.S. was WPSL Elite, a "semi-pro" league that had both professional and amateur teams.
List of United States soccer teams 
 WPSL Elite was created by the Women's Premier Soccer League, one of two second-division women's leagues, as an outlet for former WPS teams, as well as WPSL teams that wanted to play professionally.
List of United States soccer teams 
 In late 2012, a totally new top-level league was created, known as the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
List of United States soccer teams 
 It was run by U.S. Soccer until 2020, and started play in 2013 with eight teams, four of which had been members of WPS.
List of United States soccer teams 
 The league added teams in 2014 and 2016 to become a 10-team league, making it the first professional women's league in the U.S. to have more than eight teams and last more than three seasons.
List of United States soccer teams 
 The league dropped to 9 teams in 2017, but returned to 10 in 2021 and further expanded to 12 for 2022.
List of United States soccer teams 
 Chicago Red Stars (dropped to the WPSL after the 2010 season; later in WPSL Elite, and now in the NWSL)
List of United States soccer teams 
 Western New York Flash (an offshoot of the WPSL's Buffalo Flash, and playing home games in Rochester; joined WPS in 2011, later moved to WPSL Elite, still later to the NWSL; now a youth-only operation)
List of United States soccer teams 
 Indoor soccer is a form of soccer played inside a building, sometimes called an arena, instead of in a stadium on a grass field.
List of United States soccer teams 
 There is one league playing indoor soccer in North America, and that is the Major Arena Soccer League.
Oregon 
 Salem is the capital (where most of the state government works), and Portland is the city with the most people.
Oregon 
 Oregon was a long way from the United States of America, which was east of the Mississippi river in the 1830s and 1840s.
Oregon 
 To get to Oregon, settlers had to cross the Great Plains, which were empty except for a few forts and groups of Native Americans.
Oregon 
 They called it the "Great American Desert", because crossing it was long and dangerous; however, thousands did anyway.
Oregon 
 Mountain men (people who knew a lot about living in mountainous places) had found a passway over the Rocky Mountains, and they named it the South Pass.
Oregon 
 This proved that it was possible for others with women and families to go too, and because of this, Oregon suddenly became the place pioneers wanted to make a trip to.
Oregon 
 But still, lots of pioneers traveled so much that it is still possible to see the wagon ruts in some places today.
Oregon 
 But these were hard to find, and so sometimes they got mad at each other and fought with fists and guns.
Oregon 
 They were so eager to have Oregon all for themselves, they supported James Polk as president because he claimed to have similar thoughts with them as well.
Oregon 
 The British also realized that the Americans would soon have enough settlers in Oregon to easily drive out the British defenders.
Oregon 
 In 1846 the British offered to divide Oregon by giving most of the border land between the USA and what is now Canada.
Oregon 
 President Polk accepted this, and so now the Americans had power over Oregon as well as the other states.
Oregon 
 The four-year universities with the most students are Portland State University, Oregon State University, and the University of Oregon.
Arkansas 
 Arkansas, nicknamed the Land of Opportunity or The Natural State, is a state in the United States of America.
Arkansas 
 It has been estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015 that around 2,978,204 people live in Arkansas.
Arkansas 
 During the American Civil War, Arkansas was one of the Confederate states, however, it was the second state to be put back in to the U.S. in the Reconstruction.
Arkansas 
 Arkansas borders Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, Oklahoma to the west, Missouri to the north, and Tennessee and Mississippi on the east.
Arkansas 
 Arkansas has few natural lakes but many reservoirs such as Bull Shoals Lake, Lake Ouachita, Greers Ferry Lake, Millwood Lake, Beaver Lake, Norfork Lake, DeGray Lake, and Lake Conway.
Arkansas 
 More than 43,000 Native American living, hunting and tool making sites have been catalogued by the State Archeologist.
Arkansas 
 This is done by members of the public with primitive digging tools for a small daily fee, not by commercial interests.
Arkansas 
 These areas are set aside for outdoor recreation and are open to hunting, fishing, hiking, and camping.
Arkansas 
 The largest denominations by number of followers in 2000 were the Southern Baptist Convention with 665,307; the United Methodist Church with 179,383; the Roman Catholic Church with 115,967; and the American Baptist Association with 115,916.
Arkansas 
 Arkansas has two university systems: Arkansas State University System and University of Arkansas System.
Arkansas 
 Some other public institutions are Arkansas Tech University, Henderson State University, Southern Arkansas University, and University of Central Arkansas.
Arkansas 
 One of them being Hendrix College, one of the nation's top 100 liberal arts colleges, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Arkansas 
 Notable Arkansans include Bill Clinton, who was governor of Arkansas before he became the President of the United States, Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, Johnny Cash, a famous guitarist known as "The Man In Black", and Rodger Bumpass, Who voices Squidward Tentacles on the Nickelodeon show SpongeBob SquarePants.
Henry IV of France 
 Henry IV (13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610.
Henry IV of France 
 He was baptised in a Catholic ceremony, but as he grew up, his mother led him to become a Protestant.
Henry IV of France 
 Since 1562, there had been a a series of wars in France which were mostly fought between Catholics and Protestants, and sometimes with more than one groups of Catholics fighting each other.
Henry IV of France 
 This led to the War of the Three Henrys between Henry of Navarre, the existing Catholic king Henry III and Catholic League leader Henry, Duke of Guise.
Henry IV of France 
 Henry of Navarre could now be crowned King of France, but he still faced opposition from the Catholic League.
Henry IV of France 
 Henry's children were Louis XIII and Henrietta Maria of France, who married Charles I and became the Queen of England.
Henry IV of France 
 Although this mostly ended once he joined the Catholic Church, some Catholics called him a liar, while some Protestants called him a traitor.
Henry IV of France 
 It was only after his death that he became known as Good King Henry (in French, le bon roi Henri) and one of France's most popular kings.
Henry IV of France 
 During the early years of the French Revolution, Henry IV was celebrated as an example of what a king should be.
Henry IV of France 
 Henry IV is remembered for being the king who ended the French Wars of Religion, and for his policy of allowing more than one church in his country, which was unusual in those days.
Henry IV of France 
 In 2010 scientists found part of his embalmed head and used forensic tests to prove that it was his.
Henry IV of France 
 It had been stolen from the tombs of the French kings and queens in Saint Denis in 1793 at the time of the French Revolution.
Margaret of Valois 
 Margaret of Valois (May 14, 1553 – May 27, 1615) was a Princess of France and a member of the house of Valois.
Queen Margot 
 The same author wrote many other books including The Man in the Iron Mask, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Henrietta Maria of France 
 Henrietta Maria of France (November 25, 1609 - September 10, 1669) was the youngest daughter of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Madonna Louise Ciccone, commonly known as Madonna (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, author, director, philanthropist, businesswoman, record producer, film director, and humanitarian.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Madonna was born in Bay City, Michigan, but she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 During her career, she has sold over 300 million records worldwide and is the top-selling female artist of all time.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Some of her most famous albums are Like a Virgin, True Blue, Like a Prayer, Ray of Light and Confessions On a Dance-Floor.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Madonna is considered the  "Queen Of Pop" due to her extremely successful career on music and for being the most selling female singer in history.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 She has been in many movies; she received positive reviews for her role in Desperately Seeking Susan (1985).
Madonna (entertainer) 
 She received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Evita (1996).
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Her next album, Like a Virgin (1984), sold over 6 million copies in the United States only and overall 10 million copies worldwide.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Her album Like a Prayer caused controversy, as it had to do with Christianity but the album sold over 15 million records worldwide.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Songs like Like a Virgin, Material Girl, Into the Groove, Papa Don't Preach, Holiday, Lucky Star, La Isla Bonita, and Like a Prayer are believed to be classics.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 In 1990, she released her best selling greatest-hits album The Immaculate Collection which sold over 30 million copies, and this album became the most-sold greatest-hits album in music history.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Madonna starred in the film A League of Their Own, alongside American actor Tom Hanks and comedienne Rosie O'Donnell.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 She also performed in the movie Evita, which was very successful and released a soundtrack album of the same name.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Her 1998 album Ray of Light is considered to be a masterpiece and sold over 18 million copies worldwide.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Some of her most famous and classic songs of the '90s are Vogue, This Used to Be My Playground, Erotica, Take a Bow, Don't Cry for Me Argentina, You Must Love Me, Frozen and Ray of Light.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 In 2000, her album Music sold over 15 million copies worldwide, helped by the global hit song of the same name.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Her 2003 album, American Life, reached #1 in many countries but it was criticized by some, as it was against war in Iraq and sold 5 million copies.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 In 2005, her album Confessions on a Dance Floor, helped by the singles Hung Up and Sorry that reached #1 in 45 countries, sold 12 million copies.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 In 2008 she released her album Hard Candy which reached #1 in almost every country in the world and has sold over 4 million copies worldwide.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Trinidadian-born American rapper Nicki Minaj was featured on the lead single, Give Me All Your Luvin''', which reached the top ten in the United States and reached number one in Canada.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 It featured the singles Living For Love and Bitch I'm Madonna featuring frequent collaborator Nicki Minaj.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Her fourteenth studio album, Madame X, was released on June 14, 2019, and became her ninth number-one album in the US.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Her 1993 "The Girlie Show Tour" was very controversial—some thought of it as bad—but was a great success.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 The "Drowned World Tour" and the "Re-Invention World Tour" were the most successful tours of their years.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 The "Confessions Tour" was very successful and the "Sticky & Sweet Tour," with over $408 million earned, became the most successful tour of all time for a solo artist.
Madonna (entertainer) 
 Madonna is the third of six siblings and was named after her mother, Madonna Fortin, who died of breast cancer when Madonna was only five years old.