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Definition: HERCULES POWDER |
HERCULES POWDER1. An explosive containing nitroglycerin; -- used for blasting. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | Weak form of dynamite, based on nitroglycerin and a semiactive carryingdope. (references) |
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 | FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housing project seen from the acreage of an old homestead which will be included in the expanding home village of the Hercules Powder Company workers. Radford, Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | FSA (Farm Security Administration) planning provided Hercules Powder Company workers with substantial homes and "space for living". FSA defense housing project. Radford, Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Backyards of Hercules Powder Company workers homes providing space for gardens and playgrounds. FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housing project. Radford, Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-h-l-o-p-r-r-s-u-w" | |
-3 letters: preschedule, sepulchered. | |
-4 letters: pewholders, procedures, reproduces, reschedule, sepulchred. | |
-5 letters: decouples, deplorers, ecosphere, horseweed, lecherous, operceles, opercules, pewholder, powderers, precludes, preluders, prescored, preshowed, procedure, producers, recoupled, recouples, repowered, reproduce, resecured, scheduler, sepulcher, sepulchre, supercede, superhero, upholders, wheedlers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 52 43 55 4C 45 53 50 4F 57 44 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01010010 01000011 01010101 01001100 01000101 01010011 00100000 01010000 01001111 01010111 01000100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E R C U L E S   P O W D E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0052 0043 0055 004C 0045 0053 0050 004F 0057 0044 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42395237554639532504957383952 |
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