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Definition: John Glenn |
John GlennNoun1. Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921- ). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: John GlennSynonyms: Glenn (n), John Herschel Glenn Jr. (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: John Glenn |
| Specialty definitions using "John Glenn": Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You tell them that- that Astronaut John Glenn told you to say that. (The Right Stuff; writing credit: Philip Kaufman; Tom Wolfe) | |
Lyrics | Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson (We Didn't Start The Fire; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The John Glenn Story (1962) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Astronaut John Glenn being Honored. Credit: NASA. |  | German Titov, John Glenn and JFK at the White House. Credit: NASA. |
 | John Glenn Entering Friendship 7. Credit: NASA. |  | JFK, John Glenn and General Davis in Cocoa Beach Parade. Credit: NASA. |
 | U.S. Air Forces in Europe commander Gen. Gregory Martin; his wife, Wendy; Secretary of Defense William Cohen; his wife, Janet Langart Cohen; and former astronaut John Glenn, lead the troops and family members in celebrating the Secretary of Defense Holida. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For the first time, a previously experienced, but now elderly astronaut, Senator John Glenn, participated. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| 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 |
john glenn | 253 |
john glenn high school | 40 |
astronaut john glenn | 10 |
elwood john glenn high school | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-j-l-n-n-n-o" | |
-4 letters: longe. | |
-5 letters: enol, glen, gone, helo, hole, hone, hong, jeon, john, jole, leno, loge, lone, long, neon, noel, none, ogle. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 6F 68 6E 47 6C 65 6E 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01101111 01101000 01101110 00100000 01000111 01101100 01100101 01101110 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J o h n   G l e n n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 006F 0068 006E 0047 006C 0065 006E 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4481748024178718080 |
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