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Definition: Big Sur |
Big SurNoun1. A picturesque coastal region of California south of San Francisco. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Big Sur |
| English words defined with "Big Sur": California redwood, coast redwood ♦ Sequoia sempervirens. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The first Europeans to see Big Sur were the Spanish conquistadores, who called it el Sur Grande, or the Big South. They built a series of missionss there, but otherwise took little interest. Under Americann rule, the prohibiting terrain kept settlers out, except for a few ranchers. It remains sparsely populated today, over six decades after the Pacific Coast Highway was put through with the use of New Deal funds and prison labor. The only two towns in Big Sur, excepting the relatively flat southern reaches, are Big Sur and Lucia. Most of the land along the very coast is privately owned, but the vast Los Padres National Forest encompasses the inland portions, and there is a number of small state parks. The area is still quite inaccessible compared to many of California's other natural tourist attractions, but it has a low capacity for visitors and becomes very crowded during major vacation periods.
Big Sur has attracted and inspired a number of writers and artists. most notably Robinson Jeffers and Edward Weston.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Big Sur."
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Movie/TV Titles | Celebration at Big Sur (1971) The Big Sur (1965) | |
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 | Big Sur coastline from Point Lobos looking south.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Point Sur along the Big Sur coastline about 25 miles south of Monterey. In: Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory . By George Davidson, 1869. P. 45. Library Call Number VK947.D4 1869.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Big Sur, California 1989 October.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Coastal fog creeping in to the Big Sur coastline.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | The Big Sur coastline as seen while traveling along Highway 1.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Point Lobos and the mountains of Big Sur as seen from Carmel Bay.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Looking over the edge from Highway 1 along the Big Sur coastline.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ||
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1. Big Sur, CA |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: brigs, burgs, grubs. | |
-2 letters: bigs, brig, bris, bugs, burg, burs, gibs, grub, ribs, rigs, rubs, rugs, urbs. | |
-3 letters: big, bis, bug, bur, bus, gib, rib, rig, rub, rug, sib, sir, sri, sub, urb. | |
-4 letters: bi, is, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: rubigos, rugbies, subring. | |
+2 letters: broguish, bruising, brushing, burnings, bursting, curbings, firebugs, rubbings, subrings. | |
+3 letters: becursing, beguilers, bourgeois, buggeries, bullrings, drubbings, grubbiest, obscuring, rumblings, scrubbing, suborning, subregion. | |
+4 letters: aubergines, becrusting, bescouring, blustering, bourgeoise, brogueries, burglaries, burgundies, burnishing, crumblings, debruising, disbursing, disturbing, febrifuges, furbishing, grubbiness, jitterbugs, kurbashing, litterbugs, lugubrious, neighbours, seaborgium, slubbering, slumbering, suberising, suberizing, submerging, submersing, subregions, subserving, subverting, sunburning, urbanising. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 67 53 75 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100111 00100000 01010011 01110101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i g   S u r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0067 0053 0075 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3675732538784 |
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