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BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

Specialty Definition: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

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Agriculture

A bureau within the Department of the Interior, whose mission is to manage, develop, and protect water and related resources. The agency replaced the Reclamation Service, which was established pursuant to the Reclamation Act of 1902 to "reclaim (arid lands) throughout the West through irrigation." The Bureau built, operates, and maintains more than 300 storage dams on rivers throughout the western United States. (BOR). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

Specialty definitions using "BUREAU OF RECLAMATION": BORClass I equivalencyFull-cost waterReclamation Act of 1902, Reclamation fund, Reclamation law, Repayment contractU.S. Bureau of Reclamation. (references)

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Commercial Usage: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

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Books

  • Damming the West: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on the Bureau of Reclamation (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

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Man-made "river" in a desert "sea"--California's new river, the All-American Canal, nearing completion by the Bureau of Reclamation along the Mexican border, as seen from the air. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bureau of reclamation

179
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-c-e-e-f-i-l-m-n-o-o-r-r-t-u-u"

-5 letters: neurofibromata.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 55 52 45 41 55      4F 46      52 45 43 4C 41 4D 41 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010101 01010010 01000101 01000001 01010101 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01010010 01000101 01000011 01001100 01000001 01001101 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#85 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#85 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#82 &#69 &#67 &#76 &#65 &#77 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0055 0052 0045 0041 0055      004F 0046      0052 0045 0043 004C 0041 004D 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3655523935552494025239374635473554434948

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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