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QUEEN'S DAY

Specialty Definition: QUEEN'S DAY

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Queen's Day November 17th, the day of the accession of Queen Elizabeth, first publicly celebrated in 1570, and still kept as a holiday at the Exchequer, as it was at Westminster school.
Nov. 17 at Merchant Taylors' school is a holiday also, now called Sir Thomas White's Founder's Day.
"A rumour is spread in the court, and bath come to the eares of some of the most honourable counsell, how that I on the Queen's day last past did forbidd in our college an $$$ to bee made in praise of Her Majesty's government, etc."- Dr. Whittaker to Lord Burghley (May 14th, 1590). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: QUEEN'S DAY

Specialty definitions using "QUEEN'S DAY": November 17. (references)

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Anagrams: QUEEN'S DAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-d-e-e-n-q-s-u-y"

-4 letters: aeneus, endues, ensued, queans, queasy, queens, sundae, unease, uneasy, usneae, yeaned.

-5 letters: aedes, deans, denes, dense, dunes, dynes, eased, endue, ensue, needs, needy, nudes, quads, quays, quean, queen, queys, sandy, saned, sedan, seedy, squad, suede, undee, unsay, usnea, yauds, yeans, yuans.

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Alternative Orthography: QUEEN'S DAY


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

51 55 45 45 4E 27 53      44 41 59

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

    

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

01010001 01010101 01000101 01000101 01001110 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000100 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#81 &#85 &#69 &#69 &#78 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#68 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 0055 0045 0045 004E 0027 0053      0044 0041 0059

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

51553939489532383559

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