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MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE

Specialty Definition: MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE

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Mississippi Bubble The French "South-Sea Scheme," and equally disastrous. It was projected by John Law, a Scotchman, and had for its object the payment of the National Debt of France, which amounted to 208 millions sterling, on being granted the exclusive trade of Louisiana, on the banks of the Mississippi. (1717-1720.) (See South Sea .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Crosswords: MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE

Specialty definitions using "MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE": South-Sea Scheme. (references)

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Modern Usage: MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE

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Movie/TV Titles

John Law and the Mississippi Bubble (1978)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE

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.
 
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the mississippi bubble

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Alternative Orthography: MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE


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

4D 49 53 53 49 53 53 49 50 50 49      42 55 42 42 4C 45

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

    

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

01001101 01001001 01010011 01010011 01001001 01010011 01010011 01001001 01010000 01010000 01001001 00100000 01000010 01010101 01000010 01000010 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#73 &#80 &#80 &#73 &#32 &#66 &#85 &#66 &#66 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 0053 0053 0049 0053 0053 0049 0050 0050 0049      0042 0055 0042 0042 004C 0045

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

47435353435353435050432365536364639

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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