Uses of Playing Card Suit Symbols
Card suit symbols occur in places outside card playing:
- The four suits were famously employed by the 101st Airborne Division during World War II to distinguish its four constituent regiments:
- Clubs (♣) identified the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment; currently worn by the 1st Brigade Combat Team.
- Diamonds (♦) identified the 501st PIR. 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment is now part of the 4th Brigade (ABN), 25th Infantry Division in Alaska; the Diamond is currently used by the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade.
- Hearts (♥) identified the 502nd PIR; currently worn by the 2d Brigade Combat Team.
- Spades (♠) identified the 506th PIR; currently worn by the 4th Brigade Combat Team.
- British Navy Fleet Air Arm search and rescue units (helicopters, etc.) sport an "ace of clubs" symbol.
- The United States Navy's Strike Fighter Squadron 41 (VFA-41) is nicknamed "The Black Aces" and their insignia is a playing card with the spade present and numbered "41".
- The Japanese television series Kamen Rider Blade uses the playing cards and their symbols as an overall motif for the series. Each of the four Kamen Riders derives his name from the Minor Arcana that parallels the four suits: Blade represents Spades, Garren (based on the word "Galleon") represents Diamonds, Chalice represents Hearts, and Leangle (a type of Aborigine war-club) represents Clubs.
- The Bartle Test uses the four suits in order to distinguish different player personalities that arise typically in a video game:
- Clubs (Killers) (♣) enjoy competition and take pleasure in causing physical destruction in the virtual environment.
- Diamonds (Achievers) (♦) enjoy gaining "points", levels, or any physical measure of their in-game achievement.
- Hearts (Socializers) (♥) enjoy playing games for the social aspect or by interacting with other players.
- Spades (Explorers) (♠) enjoy digging around, discovering new areas, or learning about easter eggs or glitches in the game.
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Famous quotes containing the words playing, card, suit and/or symbols:
“Lovely,
this plowman’s son
with the good-looking wife
has gone so thin over you
that the woman,
though jealous,
is playing the go-between herself!”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party—any party at all—until it is all over and the lights are being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I’ll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Calm is the morn without a sound,
Calm as to suit a calmer grief,
And only through the faded leaf
The chestnut pattering to the ground:”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)