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    In playing cards, we know what the King, Queen, and even the Joker is, but what the heck is a Jack?

    Question #38679. Asked by Hamlet.. (Sep 11 03 5:25 PM)


    sequoianoir

    		The Jack is also known as the KNAVE.
    A knave is a villan or a rogue

    Sep 11 03, 5:52 PM
    Flem-ish

    		The modern day deck of playing cards is believed to have come from the tarot.The face cards of the tarot deck are the King, Queen, Knight and Page. Occasionally Knight and Page are also represented as Prince and Princess. In the modern day playing card deck the Knight was dropped and replaced by the Page, whose new name was the Jack.
    In some languages the Jack's "social rank" was lowered to that of a "fool" or a "peasant".
    See Wikipedia on-line encyclopedia.

    Sep 11 03, 6:07 PM

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