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Literature | Golden Ball (The). Ball Hughes, one of the dandies in the days of the Regency. He paid some fabulous prices for his dressing cases (flourished 1820-1830). Ball married a Spanish dancer. He shirked a duel and this probably popularised the pun Golden Ball, Leaden Ball, Hughes Ball. The three golden balls. (See Balls.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Williamsburg, Virginia. The capitol of the Virginia colony during the eighteenth century which was reconstructed and restored to its original state by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. during the 1930s. The Golden Ball metalsmith and pewter shop. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
golden ball | 10 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-l-l-l-n-o" | |
-3 letters: allonge, bondage, dogbane, galleon. | |
-4 letters: albedo, angled, balled, ballon, bandog, banged, bangle, begall, beglad, belong, blonde, bodega, bolled, bonged, dangle, doable, dongle, gabled, galled, gallon, gaoled, global, globed, goaled, golden, lagend, lalled, loaned, lolled, longed. | |
-5 letters: abode, adobe, agone, aldol, allod, alone, along, angel, angle, anode, anole, badge, bagel, baled, baned, beano, began. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-g-l-l-l-n-o" | |
+4 letters: radiolabelling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 4F 4C 44 45 4E 42 41 4C 4C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001111 01001100 01000100 01000101 01001110 00100000 01000010 01000001 01001100 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G O L D E N   B A L L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 004F 004C 0044 0045 004E 0042 0041 004C 004C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)414946383948236354646 |
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