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Literature | House that Jack Built (The). There are numerous similar glomerations. For example the Hebrew parable of The Two Zuzim. The summation runs thus: - 10. This is Yavah who vanquished 9. Death which killed 8. The butcher which slew 7. The ox which drank 6. The water which quenched 5. The fire which burnt 4. The stick which beat 3. The dog which worried 2. The cat which killed 1. The kid which my father bought for two zuzim. (A zuzim was about = a farthing.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Movie/TV Titles | The House That Jack Built (1939) By the House That Jack Built (1911) The House That Jack Built (1900) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Malt Bitters : The House That Jack Built / Forbes Co., Boston. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | This is the house that Jack built. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "This is the house that Jack built ...". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Broadhurst's hilarious sufficiency, What happened to Jones by Geo. H. Broadhurst, author of Why Smith left home, The wrong Mr. Wright, The house that Jack built, etc. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Around the world with Broadhurst's globe-circling success, What happened to Jones by Geo. H. Broadhurst, author of Why Smith left home, The wrong Mr. Wright, The house that Jack built, etc. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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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 |
house that jack built | 23 |
this is the house that jack built | 4 |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 55 53 45 54 48 41 54 4A 41 43 4B 42 55 49 4C 54 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01010101 01010011 01000101 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000001 01010100 00100000 01001010 01000001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01000010 01010101 01001001 01001100 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O U S E   T H A T   J A C K   B U I L T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 0055 0053 0045 0054 0048 0041 0054 004A 0041 0043 004B 0042 0055 0049 004C 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)424955533925442355424435374523655434654 |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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