Friday 19 February 2010
Question for Feb 19th, 2010
In X, the medieval society was represented through concepts related to the church, military, merchants, and peasantry. The French method of using stencils dominated the German and eventually became de-facto standard throughout Europe. A certain set in X was initially represented by Solomon, Augustus, Clovic and Constantine. But during the 16th century, they became standardized to Charlemagne, David, Caesar, and Alexander. Another set was represented by La Hire, Ogier, Hector and Lancelot. However, the French revolution brought an end to all such representations. What is X.
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playing cards
4 suits of playing cards.
Graffiti?
Movable type?
The answer is indeed playing cards. Earlier, in the European version cards were divided into 4 suits - cups (representing the Church), swords (the military), coins (the merchants) and batons (the peasants).
Later, after the French method of card making became standard, the 4 king cards represented the 4 kings - Charlemagne (hearts), David (spades), Caesar (diamonds) and Alexander (clubs). The knaves or knights were La Hire (hearts), Ogier (spades), Hector (the hero of Troy, diamonds) and Lancelot (clubs).
Congrats Ankur and Rahul !
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