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PHLEGETHON

Date "PHLEGETHON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definition: PHLEGETHON

Domain	Definition
Literature	Phlegethon A river of liquid fire in Hades. (Greek, phlego, to burn.) "Fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage." Milton: Paradise Lost, ii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Phlegethon

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon {"(river of) fire") was one of the five rivers of the underworld. It flowed with fire that burned but did not consume fuel.

Virgil VI, 265, 551.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Phlegethon."

Frequency of Internet Keywords: PHLEGETHON

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
phlegethon	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: PHLEGETHON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-h-l-n-o-p-t"
	-2 letters: ethephon, phenetol.
	-3 letters: potheen.
	-4 letters: gentle, holpen, length, lepton, phenol, pongee, poteen.
	-5 letters: elope, genet, gleet, helot, hotel, lento, leone, lethe, longe, netop, pelon, pengo, phone, tenge, thegn, thole, thong, topee, tophe.
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Alternative Orthography: PHLEGETHON

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

50 48 4C 45 47 45 54 48 4F 4E

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010000 01001000 01001100 01000101 01000111 01000101 01010100 01001000 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0048 004C 0045 0047 0045 0054 0048 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

50424639413954424948

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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