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Definition: Concepcion |
ConcepcionNoun1. An industrial city in Chile south of Santiago. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Concepcion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Battle of Concepcion Aguila (1988) | |
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 | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 30. Rives du Bio Bio a six milles de Concepcion. Chili. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | University of Concepcion School of Medicine, Chile. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1951, painted for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume I. Built in Scotland in 1860 as the commercial steamship Giraffe, Robert E. Lee was captured on 9 November 1863 and later became USS Fort Donelson. Sold after the Civil War, she was renamed Isabella. In 1869 she became the Chilean Navy ship Concepcion. Credit: NAVY. | ||
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Civil Liberties | Paraguay | In one case, on September 21, a judge in Concepcion convicted "ABC Color" reporter Telmo Tomas Ibanez of libel and slander and fined him $4,130 (19 million guaranies). (references) |
Human Rights | Paraguay | Press reports also connected Bower to the torture of eight peasants in Concepcion in March 2000; police reportedly beat them in Bower's presence after they were arrested for illegally cutting down trees. (references) |
Honduras | There were no developments in the 2000 murder cases of social activist Jairo Amilcar Ayala Nunez; community leader Ruben Elvir; forestry cooperative officials Marciano Martinez Ramirez and Victor Manuel Almendares; or of the 2000 murders of Concepcion Alvarez and his family, Copan mayor Hugo Alvarado, or the 1999 murder of Cabanas mayor Juan Ramon Alvarado--all of whom were killed in land disputes. (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | It currently has 110 users, all first line companies, such as Minera Alumbrera Ltd., Bucyrus (U.S.), Abraservice (France), Esco (U.S.), Commercial Hill (Chile), Railcars Heavy Corp (Scania), Compania Azucarera Concepcion S.A., Citromax S.A., Citrusvil, Tensolie S.A., Bacco y Cia. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Concepcion" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Concepcion | First name Female | 14,000 | 748 |
| Concepcion | Last name | 3,000 | 3,690 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Concepcion, TX 2. Concepcion , Chile |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-c-e-i-n-n-o-o-p" | |
-4 letters: conine, ionone. | |
-5 letters: cocci, conic, conin, copen, nonce, onion, opine, penni, pinon, ponce. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 6E 63 65 70 63 69 6F 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01101110 01100011 01100101 01110000 01100011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o n c e p c i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 006E 0063 0065 0070 0063 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37818069718269758180 |
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