Francis Scott Key

Definition: Francis Scott Key

Francis Scott Key

Noun

1. United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843).

Specialty Definition: Francis Scott Key

Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 or 1780 - January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer and amateur poet. He is buried in Frederick, Maryland.

During the War of 1812, Key was detained on a British ship during the battle for Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland harbor. Upon seeing the US flag still flying at dawn, he was inspired to write a poem celebrating the American victory. His poem was later set to music as The Star-Spangled Banner, and was adopted as the American national anthem in 1931.

Key was a collateral ancestor of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Photo Album: Francis Scott Key

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	Sketch of John Ross Key by James McNeill Whistler Sketched in the Coast Survey office in 1854 Key was a nephew of Francis Scott Key He was a draughtsman in the office at the time of the drawing. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Francis Scott Key. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Plans for proposed building projects in Washington, D.C. Plan of Francis Scott Key Parkway, Georgetown, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.		Francis Scott Key. Portrait of Francis Scott Key. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Sounds Captioned with "Francis Scott Key".

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	Star Spangled Banner; Francis Scott Key; American; America; patriotism.
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Expression: Francis Scott Key

Expression using "Francis Scott Key": Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Francis Scott Key

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Anagrams: Francis Scott Key

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-f-i-k-n-o-r-s-s-t-t-y"
	-4 letters: concretists, confiscates.
	-5 letters: accretions, anorectics, arccosines, astrocytes, astrocytic, carnotites, concretist, confiscate, constricts, cornetists, craftiness, crayonists, cryostatic, fornicates, recontacts, stationers, stationery, stockinets, syncretist, syntactics, transfects, tyrosinase.
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Alternative Orthography: Francis Scott Key

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
francis scott key mall	28
francis scott key star spangled banner	7
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Francis Scott Key

Definition: Francis Scott Key