Joker (playing card)

The Joker is a playing card found in most modern card decks, as an addition to the standard four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades). Originating in the United States during its civil war, the card is unique in that it lacks an industry-wide standard appearance. Created as a trump card for Euchre, it has since been adopted into many other card games where it may function as a wild card.

Origin

In the game of Euchre, the highest trump card is the Jack of the trump suit, called the right bower (from the German Bauer); the second-highest trump, the left bower, is the Jack of the suit of the same color as trumps. Around 1860, American Euchre players may have devised a higher trump, the "Best Bower", out of a blank card.

Samuel Hart is credited with printing the first illustrated "Best Bower" card in 1863 with his "Imperial Bower". Best Bower-type jokers continued to be produced well into the 20th-century. Cards labelled "Joker" began appearing around the late 1860s with some depicting clowns and jesters. It is believed that the term "Joker" comes from Juker or Juckerspiel, the original German spelling of Euchre. One British manufacturer, Charles Goodall, was manufacturing packs with Jokers for the American market in 1871. The first joker for the domestic British market was sold in 1874.

Joker (Anna Rossinelli song)

"Joker" is a song performed by Swiss singer Anna Rossinelli from her debut studio album Bon Voyage. The single was released on 14 October 2011 as a digital download in Switzerland. The song was written by Phillipa Alexander, Ellie Wyatt, Alex Ball, Vicky Nolan and produced by Fred Herrmann. It's a cover of "The Joker" by Kato, a Belgian artist, it was her first single after her participation at Idols 2011. The single was released in June 2011

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List of Batman television series characters

The following is an overview of the characters who appeared in the 1966–1968 live-action Batman television series.

Series regulars

Supporting characters

Recurring enemies

Additional characters

Additional enemies

"Batclimb" cameos

Aside from the super-criminals, another coveted spot was the Batclimb Cameo. In 14 episodes of the first two seasons and the 1966 film, a window would be opened by a celebrity for a short conversation as the Dynamic Duo scaled a building using Batarangs and Bat-ropes. The scenes were actually filmed on a horizontal surface with the camera rotated by 90 degrees to give the illusion that the Duo were on a vertical wall. Their capes were held up by strings (usually off-camera, but on occasion visible). The Batclimb cameo scenes were discontinued for the third season.

Instigator

Instigator may refer to:

Instigator (album)

Instigator is the debut album by Pop and R&B singer Kaci Brown. The album was released on August 9, 2005. "Unbelievable" was the first single released from the album. The second single was "Instigator", which features VA Slim and El Fudge.

Brown wrote most of the songs on the album.

Critical reception

The Chicago Tribune wrote that Instigator "is loaded with the sort of sassy, danceable songs Britney Spears used to do really well."USA Today's review gave the album two and a half stars out of four, and said that Brown "has a breathy but fluid voice that nods to influences ranging from Jewel to Mariah Carey."The Morning Call wrote, "For the bubblegum pop aficionado... it's not a bad album."PopMatters gave the album a rating of two out of ten, and wrote, "With the exception of two songs that demonstrate a burgeoning talent both as a writer and a vocalist, the rest of Kaci’s CD is positively puerile."

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