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Date "BIXBY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
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Screenplays | Bixby and Ealer now, midnight's as good as daylight for them. (Life on the Mississippi; writing credit: Philip H. Reisman Jr.; Mark Twain) | |
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 | Ship's Medical Officers and Paymaster, circa late 1864 or early 1865. Those present are (as numbered on the print): 1. Acting Assistant Surgeon James T. Field, 2. Acting Assistant Paymaster Alexander W. Pearson, 3. George Lawrence, 4. Acting Assistant Surgeon George H. Bixby, 5. Assistant Surgeon James S. Knight, 6. Fleet Surgeon Ninian Pinkney, 7. Assistant Surgeon Michael Bradley. Credit: NAVY. |  | S.S. W.K. Bixby after the launch. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Launch of the S.S. W.K. Bixby. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | W.K. Bixby on the ways. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "BIXBY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bixby | Last name | 2,000 | 7,430 |
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1. Bixby, MO 2. Bixby, OK (city, FIPS 6400) |
| 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. |
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"BIXBY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baxby, Biiab, Bimbim, Bisby, Brisby, Fixby, Ibby, rixby, Xixb. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-i-x-y" | |
-2 letters: bib. | |
-3 letters: bi, by, xi. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 49 58 42 59 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. -..- -... -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001001 01011000 01000010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I X B Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 0058 0042 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3643583659 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Cities 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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