The noun woof is derived from Middle English wof, oof, owf (“threads in a piece of woven fabric at right angles to the warp, weft, woof; also sometimes the warp; transverse filaments of a spider web”) [and other forms] (the forms beginning with w were influenced by warp and weft), from Old English ōwef, āwef, from ō-, ā- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; off; out’) + *wef (“web”) (only attested in the form gewef (“woof”); from wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban (“to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid; to weave”)). The verb is derived from the noun.   woof (plural woofs)  (weaving)  The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft. quotations ▼  (by extension) A woven fabric; also, the texture of a fabric. quotations ▼  (by extension, loosely, chiefly poetic) The thread or yarn used to form the weft of woven fabric; the fill, the weft. quotations ▼  (obsolete, rare) Synonym of weaving (“the process of making woven material on a loom”) quotations ▼  (figurative)  Something which is interwoven with another thing. quotations ▼ An underlying foundation or structure of something; a fabric.  quotations ▼  Derived terms  warp and woof  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/woof#English   

WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?  Bridge size cards are 57 x 89 millimeters or 2.25 by 3.5 inches while poker size cards are 64 x 89 millimeters or 2.5 by 3.5 inches.  Both decks consist of 52 cards including some Jokers, but one set of cards is relatively thin compared to the other.  When playing with bridge size cards, the player holds up to thirteen cards and that extra 0.25 inch can add up fast when holding poker size playing cards.  Simply put, bridge cards are smaller and thinner because you have to hold more of them.  You can use bridge size playing cards to play poker.  And in actual fact, most poker rooms in professional casinos use these cards because of their cost and size.  The cards are more affordable than poker size playing cards.  Moreover, KEM, the most popular casino card manufacturer, focuses on bridge size playing cards.  Interestingly, players use poker cards to play blackjack and use bridge cards in poker rooms.  https://greatbridgelinks.com/poker-size-cards-vs-bridge-size-cards/   

On November 14th, 1889, a newspaper reporter named Nellie Bly (a pen name; she was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran) set out from New York City on a quest to beat the record of Jules Verne’s fictional Phileas Fogg, who traveled around the world in 80 days in Verne’s 1872 adventure novel, Around the World in 80 Days.  Initially, her superiors at Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World didn’t want to let Bly go.  “It is impossible for you to do it,” the managing editor told her.  “In the first place you are a woman and would need a protector, and even if it were possible for you to travel alone you would need to carry so much baggage that it would detain you in making rapid changes . . . no one but a man can do this.”  “Very well,” Bly replied.  “Start the man and I’ll start the same day for some other newspaper and beat him.”  They didn’t doubt that, and eventually they relented.  Bly boarded the Augusta Victoria with nothing but the clothes on her back—a dress and overcoat (made specially of sturdy material for the occasion)—and a single handbag.  Bly’s goal was to make the trip in 75 days; she completed it in 72, arriving back in Jersey City to great fanfare (and lots of newspaper sales for the World) on January 25, 1890.  She also beat out a competitor—another female journalist named Elizabeth Bisland who had been attempting the same feat (in the opposite direction) for Cosmopolitan.  Literary Hub  November 12, 2023   

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president, occurred on November 22, 1963, while Kennedy was riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.  Kennedy was the fourth U.S. president to be assassinated and the most recent to have died in office.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page   

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? - George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (22 Nov 1819-1880)   

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