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Definition: Sir Francis Drake |
Sir Francis DrakeNoun1. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Sir Francis DrakeSynonyms: Drake (n), Francis Drake (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sir Francis Drake |
| English words defined with "Sir Francis Drake": Golden Gate. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sir Francis Drake (1962) | |
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![]() | Sir Francis Drake. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Revenge of Sir Francis Drake. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Cape Verde | Sir Francis Drake sacked Ribeira Grande in 1585. After a French attack in 1712, the city declined in importance relative to Praia, which became the capital in 1770. (references) |
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| 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 |
sir francis drake | 247 |
sir francis drake hotel | 135 |
sir francis drake hotel san francisco | 42 |
sir francis drake san francisco | 16 |
sir francis drake high school | 9 |
explorer sir francis drake | 5 |
history sir francis drake | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-f-i-i-k-n-r-r-r-s-s" | |
-4 letters: irradiances. | |
-5 letters: cinerarias, irradiance, radiancies, ransackers, scarifiers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 72      46 72 61 6E 63 69 73      44 72 61 6B 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000110 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01101001 01110011 00100000 01000100 01110010 01100001 01101011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i r   F r a n c i s   D r a k e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 0072      0046 0072 0061 006E 0063 0069 0073      0044 0072 0061 006B 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53758424084678069758523884677771 |
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