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Why did King Mithridates want to but could not commit suicide?

King Mithridates V of Pontus was poisoned by unknown people at a feast. His son Mithridates VI, who sat on the throne, from his youth began to take various poisons in small doses in order to develop immunity. Being at an advanced age and under the threat of captivity by the insurgent people, he himself wanted to commit suicide, but the poison, as one might expect, did not work. Mithridates had to ask for the favor of his guard, who killed him with a sword.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Who Invented Playing Cards?

Today, eight out of every ten houses in the UK play card games, but even the rest, if you look carefully, you can find a deck of cards. Playing cards is so familiar to most of us that it even seems to us that they have always existed.

Perhaps playing cards have been known since the creation of fine art by man. Their history goes back so far that no one can say exactly when and where they first appeared.

For a long time, it was believed that playing cards were invented by the Chinese, since earlier paper money and playing cards in China were almost identical. We know that playing cards existed in China a thousand years ago! But still, at present it is not clear who should give priority to the invention of maps: the Chinese, the Egyptians, the Arabs or the Indians.

Since its inception, cards have become one of the ways to predict fate. It is possible that they were used for this purpose before they were used for various gambling. In the Middle Ages, using playing cards, sorcerers predicted the future.

When did playing cards get to Europe? Some believe that the crusaders brought them from their campaigns. Others say that through the Saracens they got to Spain or Italy, others say that the gypsies brought them to Eastern Europe. There is no doubt, however, that playing cards have been known in Europe since the XNUMXth century.

Originally there were many different kinds of playing cards. For example, curly cards were common (there were 22 of them in the deck, and there were no numbers among them) and digital cards (there were 56 cards in this deck - and not a single picture). The French were the first to create a deck of 52 cards. They used digital cards and retained the king, queen, jack from face cards. This 52-card deck was adopted by the British.

The earliest cards were drawn by hand, but with the development of woodcarving, playing cards became cheaper and spread very quickly among the common people.

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