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WHITE COMPANY

Specialty Definition: WHITE COMPANY

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Literature

White Company (The ). "Le Blanche Compagnie. " A band of French cutthroats organised by Bertrand du Guesclin and led against Pedro the Cruel.
"Se faisoient appeller `La Blanche Compagnie.' parce quils portoient tous une croix blanche sur I'epaule, comme voulant temoigner qu'ils n'avoient pris les armes que pour abolir le Judaisme en Espagne, et combattre le Prince qui le protegesit."- Memoires Historiques. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Photo Album: WHITE COMPANY

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Firing a salute to President Theodore Roosevelt, during the Naval Review at Oyster Bay, New York, 2-4 September 1906. The ship is dressed with flags, and her crew is manning the rails in the President's honor. Photo mounted on a stereograph card, published by the H.C. White Company. Credit: NAVY.

The White Company Bldg., Park Av. and 57th St. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: WHITE COMPANY

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Human Rights

South Africa

In 2000 a black platoon commander murdered his white company commander at an army base near Phalaborwa; at the beginning of the year, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WHITE COMPANY

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

white company

34

david white company

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: WHITE COMPANY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-m-n-o-p-t-w-y"

-2 letters: phonematic, pitchwoman, pitchwomen.

-3 letters: copayment, cymophane, hypomanic, impotency, myopathic.

-4 letters: camphine, cenotaph, champion, chowtime, coinmate, empathic, emphatic, eponymic, haptenic, hypnotic, inchoate, pentomic, phonemic, phonetic, phytonic, pitchman, pitchmen, ptomaine, pythonic, tympanic, typhonic, watchmen, whitecap, yachtmen.

-5 letters: achiote, aconite, amenity, amniote, anytime, aphetic, aphonic, aphotic, apnoeic, apomict, apothem, campion, caption, centimo, chantey, chapmen, chayote, chimney, chopine.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WHITE COMPANY


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

57 48 49 54 45      43 4F 4D 50 41 4E 59

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

    

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

01010111 01001000 01001001 01010100 01000101 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01000001 01001110 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#72 &#73 &#84 &#69 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#77 &#80 &#65 &#78 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0048 0049 0054 0045      0043 004F 004D 0050 0041 004E 0059

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

5742435439237494750354859

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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