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"BLACK FLAGS" is a plural of: black flag. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Black Flags Moslem soldiers. The banner of the Abbasides (3 syl.) is black; that of the Fatimites (3 syl.) green; and that of the Ommiades (3 syl.) white. Hence the banner of the Kalif of Bagdad is black, but that of the Sultan of Damascus is green. (Gibbon, chap. iii.) Black Flags. Pirates of the Chinese Sea who opposed the French in Tonquin, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Raise high the black flags, my children! (Waterloo; writing credit: Sergei Bondarchuk; Vittorio Bonicelli) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Flags on bell and whistle buoys Using harbor buoys for signals for survey work off the BACHE Black flags showed up best. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-f-g-k-l-l-s" | |
-1 letter: fallbacks. | |
-2 letters: fallback. | |
-4 letters: blacks, cabals, callas, flacks. | |
-5 letters: aback, alack, albas, alfas, algal, algas, baals, backs, balas, balks, balls, balsa, basal, black, cabal, calfs, calks, calla, calls, clags, falls, flabs, flack, flags, flask, galas, galls, lacks, salal, scall, slack. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 41 43 4B 46 4C 41 47 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01000110 01001100 01000001 01000111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L A C K   F L A G S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0041 0043 004B 0046 004C 0041 0047 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364635374524046354153 |
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