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Literature | Back-stair Influence Private or unrecognised influence. It was customary to build royal palaces with a staircase for state visitors, and another for those who sought the sovereign upon private matters. If any one wanted a private interview with royalty, it was highly desirable to conciliate those appointed to guard the back stairs, as they could admit or exclude a visitor. "Once, we confess, beneath the patriot's cloak, From the cracked bag the dropping guineas broke, And, jingling down the back stairs, told the crew Old Cato is as great a rogue as you." Pope: Epistle to Lord Bathurst, 35--8. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-e-e-f-i-i-k-l-n-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-5 letters: sacrificeable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 43 4B 2D 53 54 41 49 52 49 4E 46 4C 55 45 4E 43 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 00101101 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001001 01010010 00100000 01001001 01001110 01000110 01001100 01010101 01000101 01001110 01000011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A C K - S T A I R   I N F L U E N C E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0043 004B 002D 0053 0054 0041 0049 0052 0049 004E 0046 004C 0055 0045 004E 0043 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)363537451553543543522434840465539483739 |
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