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Definition: Mason And Dixon's Line |
Mason And Dixon's LineNoun1. The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania; symbolic dividing line between North and South before the Civil War. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Mason and Dixon's Line The southern boundary-line which separated the free states of Pennsylvania from what were at one time the slave states of Maryland and Virginia. It lies in 3943' 26' north latitude, and was run by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two English mathematicians and surveyors (between November 15th, 1763, and December 26th, 1767). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: Mason And Dixon's LineSynonyms: Mason and Dixon Line (n), Mason-Dixon Line (n). (additional references) |
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| Words within the letters "'-a-a-d-d-e-i-i-l-m-n-n-n-n-o-o-s-s-x" | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 73 6F 6E      41 6E 64      44 69 78 6F 6E 27 73      4C 69 6E 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110011 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000100 01101001 01111000 01101111 01101110 00100111 01110011 00100000 01001100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a s o n   A n d   D i x o n ' s   L i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0073 006F 006E      0041 006E 0064      0044 0069 0078 006F 006E 0027 0073      004C 0069 006E 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767858180235807023875908180985246758071 |
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