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1. Authors

   Authors or, The Game of Authors is a card game for three to five players. The first Game of Authors was published by G. M. Whipple & A. A. Smith of Salem, Massachusetts in 1861, and later published by Parker Brothers in 1897. The deck of cards consists of eleven sets of four cards each representing the works of eleven famous authors. The object of the game is to form complete sets of the four cards comprising the works of a particular author. The winner is the player with the most sets. The game is the creation of Anne Abbott, a Beverly, Massachusetts clergyman's daughter and editor of a young people's literary journal. Abbott also designed the hugely popular mid-19th century card game, Dr. Busby. Later decks included additional authors, but the authors represented in the original deck were: ⁕Louisa May Alcott ⁕James Fenimore Cooper ⁕Charles Dickens ⁕Nathaniel Hawthorne ⁕Washington Irving ⁕Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ⁕Sir Walter Scott ⁕William Shakespeare ⁕Robert Louis Stevenson ⁕Alfred, Lord Tennyson ⁕Mark Twain

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1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'authors' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3703

How to pronounce authors?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of authors in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of authors in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of authors in a Sentence

1. Fabrice:

   It's always the same authors who are quoted; it's not surprising that they are famous!...

2. Marc Lipsitch:

   This was likely an error of being inadequately careful by the authors, an error that is understandable in a crisis situation, but is still problematic.

3. Chris Griffiths:

   These are avoidable deaths. Most concerning is that deaths relating to pollution occur at levels below international recommended pollution limits, the authors provide the strongest evidence yet that target air pollution levels are set too high.

4. Vice President Joe Biden:

   As the the authors of this letter must know, the vast majority of our international commitments take effect without Congressional approval.

5. Juergen Hammerstaedt:

   It's a philosophical library of Epicurean texts from a time when this philosophy influenced the most important classical Latin authors, such as Virgil, Horace and Cicero, there needs to be much work before one can virtually unroll carbonized papyrus because one will have to develop a digital method that will allow us to follow the layers.

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