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		<title>The World of Playing Cards</title>
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		<description>The small rectangular pieces of cardboard have been a medium for games of luck and skill, as well as a focus for design, advertising, political propaganda, art, history and much more... a miniature encyclopedia of social anthropology</description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Greenpeace Skeleton Playing Cards]]></title>
			<link>https://www.wopc.co.uk/switzerland/greenpeace-skeleton-playing-cards</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A blunt warning from a successful anti-nuclear power plant campaign. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 16:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Lev Golinkin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Les Yvelines]]></title>
			<link>https://www.wopc.co.uk/france/grimaud/les-yvelines</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Writers, composers and other historical figures associated with the department of Les Yvelines. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Roddy Somerville</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nirmal Dashavatar Ganjifa]]></title>
			<link>https://www.wopc.co.uk/india/nirmal-dashavatar-ganjifa</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A deck with an animated style.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2026 02:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Lev Golinkin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Casino by Dertor]]></title>
			<link>https://www.wopc.co.uk/poland/casino-by-dertor</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dertor’s distant relative of the Rhineland pattern, redesigned and updated. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 16:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Roddy Somerville</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cartes d'un jeu espagnol au portrait à deux têtes]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A French-inspired interpretation of the Spanish pattern. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Simon Wintle</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A 16-Suit Dashavatar Ganjifa by Banamali Mahapatra]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A masterpiece from a ganjapa virtuoso]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 05:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Lev Golinkin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Asha Industries’ Poker Español]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Curious concoction of a 52-card Spanish-suited pack with the addition of French suits.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Roddy Somerville</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Leonora Carrington’s Tarot]]></title>
			<link>https://www.wopc.co.uk/tarot/leonora-carringtons-tarot</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Leonora Carrington rejected the logical, conventional and cerebral approach to life in favour of spontaneous vision.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 08:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Simon Wintle</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Brahmapur Dashavatar Ganjifa]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A folksy take on the classic Indian pattern.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 04:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Lev Golinkin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[WeimaRommé]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Famous citizens of Weimar on a pack created by Artwerk Designgruppe Weimar. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Roddy Somerville</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Château des Avenières Tarot]]></title>
			<link>https://www.wopc.co.uk/tarot/the-chateau-des-avenieres-tarot</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Tarot as a pathway between the earthly and heavenly realms. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Simon Wintle</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Indiana & Purdue University playing cards]]></title>
			<link>https://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/indiana-purdue-university-playing-cards</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Kings, queens, and jacks suit up for the game. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Lev Golinkin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Good Neighbor Inca & Maya playing cards]]></title>
			<link>https://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/brown-and-bigelow/good-neighbor-inca-y-maya-playing-cards</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Incan and Mayan culture represented in striking designs by Ariel Baynes. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 21:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Roddy Somerville</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mughal Ganjifa by Tab Creations]]></title>
			<link>https://www.wopc.co.uk/india/tab-creations-mughal-ganjifa</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Tab Creations brings Mughal Ganjifa to new audiences with a printed deck, explored in this review and an interview with co-founder Matthew Pennell.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Lev Golinkin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Russian Patience Pack of the Four Continents]]></title>
			<link>https://www.wopc.co.uk/russia/imperial-patience-of-the-four-continents</link>
			<description><![CDATA[How a BnF curio reveals an uncatalogued masterpiece attributable to Adolf Charlemagne. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Simon Wintle</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wiener Veduten Tarock]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Austrian Tarock by C. Titze & Schinkay with late 19th century views of Vienna. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Roddy Somerville</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rockfish of Alaska]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A charmingly fishy deck, courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Lev Golinkin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[DOT-Chain Defence Procurement]]></title>
			<link>https://www.wopc.co.uk/ukraine/dot-chain-defence-procurement-platform</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Unmanned aerial vehicles, electronic warfare equipment and ground-based robotic systems.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Peter Burnett</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The National Gallery Playing Cards]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Details from 54 famous artworks in The National Gallery, London. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Roddy Somerville</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Emperors of Russia]]></title>
			<link>https://www.wopc.co.uk/russia/the-emperors-of-russia</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Three decks celebrating the House of Romanov. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Lev Golinkin</dc:creator>
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