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How did gamblers in the 1800s determine the ordering of the poker hands? Was probability theory sufficiently well understood at the time that they were able to correctly compute the likelihood of being dealt each hand? Was there any debate about which hands should beat which?

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Is it coincidental that our names for the five largest islands of the North Atlantic (England, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland) all end in "land", or is this the result of a deliberate choice made by some cartographer(s) in the past?

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How did gamblers in the 1800s determine the ordering of the poker hands? Was probability theory sufficiently well understood at the time that they were able to correctly compute the likelihood of being dealt each hand? Was there any debate about which hands should beat which?	1738
Is it coincidental that our names for the five largest islands of the North Atlantic (England, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland) all end in "land", or is this the result of a deliberate choice made by some cartographer(s) in the past?	6