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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | New Year's Gifts The Greeks transmitted the custom to the Romans, and the Romans to the early Britons. The Roman presents were called strenae, whence the French term étrenne (a New, Year's gift). Our forefathers used to bribe the magistrates with gifts on New Year's Day- a custom abolished by law in 1290, but even down to the reign of James II. the monarchs received their tokens. N.B. Nonius Marcellus says that Tatius, King of the Sabines, was presented with some branches of trees cut from the forest sacred to the goddess Strenia (strength, on New Year's Day, and from this happy omen established the custom. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Buying New Year's gifts, Chinatown, San Francisco. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-e-e-f-g-i-n-r-s-s-t-w-y" | |
-4 letters: earwitness, eyestrains, eyestrings, stingarees, wateriness. | |
-5 letters: agentries, arsenites, asserting, astringes, estranges, estraying, eyestrain, farseeing, fasteners, festering, figeaters, ganisters, giftwares, gratinees, greasiest, greatness, greenways, infesters, irateness, refastens, reseating, resinates, safetying, seesawing, sergeants, sergeanty, stearines, sternways, stingaree, stingrays, sweetings, synergias, synergies, synergist, wasteries, waterings, weariness, westering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 45 57 59 45 41 52 27 53 47 49 46 54 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01000101 01010111 00100000 01011001 01000101 01000001 01010010 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000111 01001001 01000110 01010100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N E W   Y E A R ' S   G I F T S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0045 0057 0059 0045 0041 0052 0027 0053 0047 0049 0046 0054 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48395725939355295324143405453 |
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