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Literature | Day of the Dupes in French history, was November 11th, 1630, when Marie de Medicis and Gaston Duc d'Orléans extorted from Louis XIII. a promise that he would dismiss his Minister, the Cardinal Richelieu. The cardinal went in all speed to Versailles, the king repented, and Richelieu became more powerful than ever. Marie de Medicis and Gaston were the dupes who had to pay dearly for their short triumph. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: DAY OF THE DUPES |
| Specialty definitions using "DAY OF THE DUPES": Dupes. (references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-f-h-o-p-s-t-u-y" | |
-3 letters: softheaded. | |
-4 letters: dopeheads. | |
-5 letters: adoptees, athodyds, dopehead, dustheap, fadeouts, outspeed, phaseout, potheads, softhead, taphouse, teahouse. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 59 4F 46 54 48 45 44 55 50 45 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000001 01011001 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000100 01010101 01010000 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A Y   O F   T H E   D U P E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 0059 004F 0046 0054 0048 0045 0044 0055 0050 0045 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38355924940254423923855503953 |
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