Curse of Scotland on the eve of the Battle of Culloden (1746). However he went on to remark that the book claims that "The curse of Scotland must be something which that nation hates and detests. The Scots held in the utmost detestation the Pope." In the card game Pope Joan, very popular in the 19th century, the 9 is the most powerful card, and it is called the "Pope". The game is played on a special board on which the middle is marked "Pope Joan", and it is used in association with this card. The game uses 51 cards (the 8 is
Diamonds (suit) symbol ♦ is already in the CP437 and therefore also part of Windows WGL4. In Unicode a black ♦ and a white ♢ diamond have been defined: Diamonds (suit) Diamonds or (four-colour deck) is one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard French deck. It corresponds to Bells in the German deck. The original French name of the suit is Carreau; in German it is known as Karo. In older German-language accounts of card games, Diamonds are frequently referred to as "Eckstein" ("cornerstone"). In Switzerland, the suit is still called "Egge" (="Ecke" i.e. "corner") today. The term