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Definition: Mobile Bay |
Mobile BayNoun1. A bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Mobile Bay |
| English words defined with "Mobile Bay": mobile, Mobile River. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The city of Mobile, Alabama, is situated at the head of the bay on the western shore. On the eastern shore of the bay are found several small communities, including Daphne, Fairhope, and Point Clear. In the summer the residents of these eastern shore communities sometimes enjoy the fruits of a mysterious natural phenomen called a jubilee, when fish and crabs swarm toward shore and can be easily harvested by people wading in the shallows.
On August 5, 1864 during the American Civil War, Admiral David Farragut led a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and sealed one of the last major Southern ports of the bay in the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Note: This article needs at the very least a listing of the rivers that feed into the bay. There are at least two and possibly three, but I'm not willing to look them up at the moment. -- SteveSmith, originator
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mobile Bay."
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 | Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. An aerial view of the Fish River emptying into Weeks Bay which in turn opens to Mobile Bay. View looking south southwest. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Reproduction of an 1864 pen & ink drawing by George S. Waterman, C.S.N., depicting the action as seen from above and inside the entrance to Mobile Bay. Confederate ships present are (as identified on the drawing): Selma, Morgan, Gaines (shown twice, in the battle line, and beached off Fort Morgan after the battle) and Tennessee. Union monitors shown are (from the front of the line): Tecumseh (sinking after striking a mine), Manhattan, Winnebago and Chickasaw. The leading two steam sloops in the Union line are Brooklyn and Hartford. Small diagram in the lower right represents the various efforts by Union ships to ram the Tennessee later in the action. Credit: NAVY. |
 | View of the office's left wall, 6 January 1953, while Dan A. Kimball was Secretary of the Navy. Hanging on the wall are the official Secretary of the Navy portraits of James Forrestal (left) and Benjamin Stoddert (right) and a painting of the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864. Credit: NAVY. |  | Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken in the Mobile Bay area, Alabama, in March 1865, showing the ship with an anti-mine "torpedo rake" mounted over her bow. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism aboard USS Hartford during the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Credit: NAVY. |  | Late 19th Century line engraving by "Tab". He commanded CSS Tennessee during the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Credit: NAVY. |
 | 19th Century phototype by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, depicting Kanawha "cutting out a blockade runner from under the guns of Fort Morgan", at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama. There is no record of Kanawha capturing a steam blockade runner as depicted here, though she took several prizes while enforcing the blockade of Mobile Bay. Credit: NAVY. |  | Probably photographed in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in early 1865. Note awnings spread over her decks and anti-mine "torpedo rake" deployed at her bow. Credit: NAVY. |
 | A Civil War period photograph. He commanded CSS Selma during the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Note sword in his right hand. Credit: NAVY. |  | Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 65, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts Federal sailors in boats rescuing survivors of USS Tecumseh off Fort Morgan, Alabama, as the Battle of Mobile Bay rages around them. Credit: NAVY. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-i-l-m-o-y" | |
-2 letters: beamily. | |
-3 letters: bailey, bilboa, blimey, emboli, emboly, lambie, mobile, obelia. | |
-4 letters: abbey, aboil, amble, amole, babel, balmy, beamy, belay, bialy, bible, bilbo, bimbo, biome, blame, blimy, bombe, boyla, email, embay, lamby, limba, limbo, limby, limey, loamy, lobby, maile, maybe, mealy, obeli. | |
-5 letters: abbe, able, ably, abye, alme, aloe, ambo, amie, amyl, babe, baby, bail. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 62 69 6C 65 42 61 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01100010 01101001 01101100 01100101 00100000 01000010 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o b i l e   B a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0062 0069 006C 0065 0042 0061 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4781687578712366791 |
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