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Who are People on the Playing Cards?

King of spades: David / Dawood pbuh: An Israeli prophet according to Islam, but according to Jewish beliefs, he is an Israeli king not a prophet. • You can watch video instead of reading article King of clubs: Alexander III of Macedon / Alexander the great / Alexander of Macedon: A King of Greek Macedonia, he was considered one of the most famous military leaders in history. King of hearts: Charlemagne / Charles: The king of the Franks (768-800) , and the king of Holy Roman Empire .(800-814) King of diamonds: Julius Caesar: The Roman Emperor ( 49 B.C- 44 Bc), the first person to acquire the title of "Emperor". Queen of spades: Pallas / Athena: A synonym of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and strength, and the goddess of war, and the protector goddess of the city in Greek mythology. Queen of clubs: Regina / Argine: An ambiguous unknown person. Argine is the anagram of the
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Children For Sale "Full Story"

In the  20 Th century forties, living conditions of Americans were not so good because of the Second World War. Although the USA witnessed an economic boom by the end of the war the result wasn`t reflected on all Americans. In addition, living conditions of many were bad. One of those who suffered was Ray Chalifoux: a truck driver who, unfortunately, was fired of his job, so he couldn`t supply food to his four children and wife or pay the house fare, so his family was threatened of expulsion and becoming homeless, so Ray and his wife decided to sell their children ! • You can watch video instead of reading story On 5 August 1948 , The Viddette Messenger of Valparaiso newspaper published a photo of Mrs. Lucille Chalifoux offering her children for sale on the stairs of entrance of her house in Chicago! In this tragic photo, the mother was shown hiding her face from the camera ashamed of her deed. Her four children were shown at the stairs of the house entrance, up is

Strange Coincidences From World

Two American sisters were living in different American cities, they didn't meet for few years , so the Youngest sister "Sheila Wentworth, 45 years old" decided to drive her car to visit her sister "Doris Jean Hall 51 , years old at the same time , the elder sister decided to drive her car to visit   her youngest sister , and none of them told her sister about the visit the two sisters were driving their Jeeps on the same highway. but, in opposite directions when one of them lost the control and her vehicle crossed the median strip and collided her sister , and died together !!! • You can watch video instead of reading stories In 1971 , George Feifer’s personal copy of his novel "The Girl from Petrovka" heavily annotated in the margins, had been stolen from his car in a London street. Two years later , the film rights of the novel were sold and Anthony Hopkins was cast to play the Lead. Hopkins tried to buy a copy of the novel , but

Anime History

History of Anime The start of the Anime in Japan was in the early 20th century when some Japanese producers practiced the animation technologies which began to appear in France, Germany and The USA in 1907 the firs Anime "Katsudu Shashin" was introduced in Japan, its duration was three seconds time only; it consisted of 50 frames. Then many Animes were made, but they were lost as a result of the Great Kantō earthquake that struck Japan in 1923 on the first of September causing a vast destruction of many cities including the capital Tokyo. Two films were found in 2008: "Namakura Gatana" made in 1917, and "Urashima Tarō" in 1918. • You can watch video instead of reading article Japanese anime makers suffered great difficulties from 1923 to 1939: they had to rival foreign producers, for example: Disney which began collecting the revenues of its films, Until the middle thirties of the 20th century, most of the Japanese anime makers didn't u

Cartoon History

Vienna 1833, the Belgian Josef Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer invented the Fantascope: a simple device for displaying anime. The device comprises a disk on which a series of pictures are drawn When the disk rotates the sequence of the rotating pictures creates a visual sense of animation Only one year later, in 1834 William George Horner invented the Zoetrope, which It was based on the principle of Fantascope nearly, it was different in being cylindrical in shape. it rotates displaying a series of pictures drawn on its inner surface, When viewed across one of its outside slots the drawings seem animated. • You can watch video instead of reading article A new invention came to light in 1868 in Birmingham, the flipbook. The patent was registered as John Barnes Lynnette although the real inventor was Pierre Hubert Desvignes. Charles Emile Reynaud, a science teacher, invented the praxinoscope in France, 1877, It was very similar to the Zoetrope, but the side v