In most card games, the king was once the highest card in a suit. But after the French Revolution, the ace was introduced as an act of civil defiance, as the power of nobility declined.
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In 1852, the U.S. imported house sparrows from Germany to control canker worms that were infesting trees in Central Park. More pairs of sparrows were introduced in other states and today they are the most abundant songbirds on the continent.