JQT says: Christopher Columbus, the now-famous Italian explorer, sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, indeed made four separate trips across the Atlantic Ocean between the years 1492 and 1504. Although horses probably originated many millions of years ago in what is now North America, they were thought to have largely become extinct around 10,000 or 11,000 years ago, during the most recent Ice Age that covered a large portion of the continent. Thus Columbus often gets credit, and probably rightly so, during his second and third voyages, for being one of the first (of many) explorers to unknowingly "return" horses to the North American continent. Martin Luther, the German theologian who instigated the Protestant Reformation, which began precisely 500 years ago in 1517, was born in 1483, and therefore would have been about nine years of age when Columbus first sailed West! And therefore, those trips by Columbus all occurred approximately 70 years before the existence of both Galileo and Shakespeare (who were both born in 1564). And thus Columbus' journeys were over 100 years before the birth of the one called Sir John Suckling. Who? Sir John Suckling, that's who: he who was born in 1609, and who was known to be a prolific gambler and womanizer, and sharp wit and provocative poet, and who later took his own life in 1641 by way of poison, and did so before he would reach the not-so-ripe age of thirty-three, and who invented the game known today as "Cribbage" (or rather he "adapted" the earlier known game of "Noddy," using its familiar board, which became what was then to be called "Cribbidge"). Suckling had distributed "marked" cards throughout areas in which he would later visit, and then he would often play his game of Cribbage for money against many players who were caught unawares. It is estimated that Sir John Suckling raised about 20,000 pounds by mostly cheating at Cribbage, or what is the modern-day equivalent of over $5 million USD! As an aside, the U.S. currency is currently (as of 2017) enjoying its fastest rise in many decades, and the U.S. dollar has been strengthening dramatically against virtually all of the world's other major currencies. In fact, since the start of 2015 alone, the USD has gone up about 14%, so while a million dollars is of course a lot of cash, it's certainly not what it used to be.

Inushtuk1 says: On the 8 reply to my 3 lead I’ll dump the 5. The 2 goes on the 9 reply

Inushtuk1 says: Hi Ras. You and Dan like the 10 lead on offense. Could you give us an example of the type of hand the Dealer would have to have, where we could score a run with the remaining 2-3-5, given the fact that Dealer will be playing *defense* here. thanking you in advance.