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  • Thumbnail for List of poker hands
    highest-ranking hands win. In low games, like razz, the lowest-ranking hands win. In high-low split games, both the highest-ranking and lowest-ranking hands win,...
    26 KB (3,367 words) - 12:59, 19 November 2024
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    to lay hands upon one's sacrificial animal by applying one's full body weight on a Festival Day. In the New Testament the laying on of hands was associated...
    15 KB (1,600 words) - 06:45, 25 November 2024
  • one's hand (or to the board of community cards) after a betting round in which no player opened. One is thereby being given a chance to improve one's...
    100 KB (14,196 words) - 07:22, 24 November 2024
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    2007, full-body scanners started supplementing metal detectors at airports and train stations in many countries. Three distinct technologies have been...
    85 KB (9,505 words) - 20:02, 6 November 2024
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    Handcuffs (redirect from Hand cuff)
    applying massive amounts of force from one's arms to cause the device to split apart or loosen enough to squeeze one's hands through; however, this takes exceptional...
    23 KB (2,948 words) - 06:02, 12 November 2024
  • a spiritual family since "one looked at the enlightened activities of one's lineal forebears in order to understand one's own identity." The practice...
    109 KB (14,194 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2024
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    Most hands have blemishes such as scrapes, scars, spots, or discolorations which would stand out in a close up and detract from the product. Hand models...
    3 KB (397 words) - 13:18, 6 March 2022
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    Sages of Israel have exempted them from washing their hands prior to breaking bread. Rabbinic sources discuss a practice to wash hands after a meal, before...
    31 KB (4,260 words) - 18:07, 25 October 2024
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    position by balancing on the hands. In a basic handstand, the body is held straight with arms and legs fully extended, with hands spaced approximately a shoulder-width...
    20 KB (2,413 words) - 20:34, 1 November 2024
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    cold. Hands up is a gesture expressing military surrender by lifting both hands. This may have originated with the concept of exposing one's hands to show...
    57 KB (7,251 words) - 16:49, 6 November 2024
  • killing of one's own wife. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out. It can also be used in the context of the killing of one's own girlfriend...
    33 KB (4,107 words) - 13:21, 22 October 2024
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    century on. Waulking could be done with the hands and feet. In medieval Europe, it was done in water-powered fulling mills. After the Industrial Revolution...
    11 KB (1,237 words) - 12:42, 27 October 2024
  • third best possible hands. The term applies mostly to community card poker games where the individual holding the strongest possible hand, with the given...
    5 KB (728 words) - 06:53, 10 April 2024
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    suggests an overly elegant "sweetness". To this day, a reference to someone as one's "Dulcinea" implies idealistic devotion and love for her. An unidentified...
    7 KB (795 words) - 18:14, 22 November 2024
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    "hundred") and χείρ (cheir, "hand" or "arm"). Although the Theogony describes the three brothers as having one hundred hands (ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες), the collective...
    82 KB (9,059 words) - 19:20, 17 November 2024
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    certain situations, a "split pot" or "tie" can occur when two players have hands of equivalent value. This is also called "chop the pot". Texas hold 'em...
    66 KB (7,663 words) - 12:36, 20 October 2024
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    activity that excludes penetration, and often includes rubbing one's genitals on one's sexual partner. This may include the partner's genitals or buttocks...
    47 KB (5,673 words) - 02:00, 27 September 2024
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    anything, as long as it can hit the ball and can be suitably held in the hands. However, usage of a bat is necessary. A ball is the other essential item...
    23 KB (2,913 words) - 12:39, 10 September 2024
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    a winner's hand can score, full limit hands score that maximum. Table rules dictate if these rare and special hands are allowed, which ones, and the limit...
    121 KB (13,189 words) - 01:00, 31 October 2024
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    by surrendering one's cards. (Some games may have specific rules regarding how to fold: for example in stud poker one must turn one's upcards face down...
    78 KB (13,514 words) - 09:24, 19 September 2024
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