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Captain James Cook

Definition: Captain James Cook

Captain James Cook

Noun

1. English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779).

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Synonym: Captain James Cook

Synonym: cook (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Captain James Cook

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Movie/TV Titles

Captain James Cook (1987)

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Commercial Usage: Captain James Cook

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Books

  • Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (reference)

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Image Slideshow: Captain James Cook

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Photo Album: Captain James Cook

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The death of Captain James Cook at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. In: "A Collection of Voyages round the World ... Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages ...." Volume VI, London, 1790. Page 1969. Call Number G160 .C64 1790 v. 6.Credit: Treasures of the Library.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Captain James Cook

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Economic History

New Zealand

English Captain James Cook thoroughly explored the coastline during three South Pacific voyages beginning in 1769. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, lumbering, seal hunting, and whaling attracted a few European settlers to New Zealand. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Captain James Cook

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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captain james cook

149
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Anagrams: Captain James Cook

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-e-i-j-k-m-n-o-o-p-s-t"

-5 letters: accompanies, accompanist, compactions.

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Alternative Orthography: Captain James Cook


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

43 61 70 74 61 69 6E      4A 61 6D 65 73      43 6F 6F 6B

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

        

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

01000011 01100001 01110000 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101110 00100000 01001010 01100001 01101101 01100101 01110011 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101111 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#112 &#116 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#32 &#74 &#97 &#109 &#101 &#115 &#32 &#67 &#111 &#111 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0070 0074 0061 0069 006E      004A 0061 006D 0065 0073      0043 006F 006F 006B

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

3767828667758024467797185237818177

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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