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Fort Douglas (initially called Camp Douglas) was established in October 1862, during the American Civil War, as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah. Its purpose was to protect the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route .
Fort Caspar Museum and Historic Site: Casper: Natrona: Central: Military: Includes reconstructed log fort buildings and a museum Fort Fetterman Historic Site: Douglas: Converse: Southeast: Military: Trail through mid 19th-century fort ruins, restored officer's quarters and an ordnance warehouse with exhibits Fort Laramie National Historic Site ...
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Fort Nisqually, rebuilt as a living history museum; Fort Okanogan; Fort Simcoe, open to the public; Fort Spokane; Fort Steilacoom, open to the public; Fort Townsend; Fort Vancouver, open to the public; Fort Walla Walla, open to the public; Fort Ward, open to the public; Fort Whitman; Fort Worden, open to the public
During World War II, Utah was home to around 15,000 Italian and German prisoners that were distributed across several camps. Camp Salina was a small, temporary branch camp to accommodate overflow prisoners in Fort Douglas in Salt Lake City. It was occupied from 1944 to 1945 by about 250 Germans, most of whom were from the Afrika Korps. It was a ...
Map of the World or A Map of the World may refer to: World map, a map of most or all of the surface of the Earth; A Map of the World, 1994 novel by Jane Hamilton A Map of the World, 1999 film drama directed by Scott Elliott and based on the novel of the same name by Jane Hamilton; A Map of the World, 1999 album by Pat Metheny and soundtrack of ...
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The International Map of the World (IMW; also the Millionth Map of the World, after its scale of 1:1 000 000) was a project to create a complete map of the world according to internationally agreed standards. It was first proposed by the German geographer Albrecht Penck in 1891. The Central Bureau of the Map of the World was established in London.