You’re at a party. It’s getting a bit boring. Someone suggests a game of cards or – if you move in astrologically-inclined circles – offers to read fortunes. The host produces a deck. As they slide ...

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Playing cards are known and used the world over—and almost every corner of the globe has laid claim to their invention. The Chinese assert the longest pedigree for card playing (the “game of leaves” ...

The first record of playing cards dates back to 9th-century China, which would place their invention around the same time as gunpowder and more than 500 years before the printing press. But their ...

Our love of playing cards dates farther back than you think—perhaps as far back as the T’ang Dynasty. Here’s a look at their colorful past. It is not known how these cards were played, but almost all ...

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Picking out a design for your P.E.I. library card just got a little harder. Patrons will now have four more designs to choose from, after the P.E.I. Public Library Service unveiled new designs this ...