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Literature | John Drum's Entertainment Hauling a man by his ears and thrusting him out by the shoulders. The allusion is to "drumming" a man out of the army. There is a comedy so called, published 1601. "When your lordship sees the bottom of his success in't ... if you give him not John Drum's entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed." - Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well, iii. 6. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 4F 48 4E 44 52 55 4D 27 53 45 4E 54 45 52 54 41 49 4E 4D 45 4E 54 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01001111 01001000 01001110 00100000 01000100 01010010 01010101 01001101 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 01010100 01000001 01001001 01001110 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J O H N   D R U M ' S   E N T E R T A I N M E N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 004F 0048 004E 0044 0052 0055 004D 0027 0053 0045 004E 0054 0045 0052 0054 0041 0049 004E 004D 0045 004E 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)44494248238525547953239485439525435434847394854 |
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