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General overview map illustrating how the sheets of the complete map fit together Detail from sheets 11 and 15, depicting the Louvre Palace. In 1734, Michel-Étienne Turgot, the chief of the municipality of Paris as provost of the city's merchants, decided to promote the reputation of Paris for Parisian, provincial and foreign elites by commissioning a new map of the city.
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Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and Romeo R; Conventional abbreviations for US cities and states: for example, "New York" can indicate NY and "California" CA or CAL. The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example:
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Pages in category "Maps of Paris" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E. ... Code of Conduct;
The Merian map of Paris (French: plan de Merian) was created in 1615 by Matthäus Merian the Elder. It presents a bird's eye view looking east with a scale of about 1 to 7,000. The map originally consisted of two engraved plates (50 x 37 cm each) with the left and right halves of the map and was printed with 2 columns of portraits (each 50 x 13 ...
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The run of D-Day codewords as The Daily Telegraph crossword solutions continued: 2 May 1944: 'Utah' (17 across, clued as "One of the U.S."): code name for the D-Day beach assigned to the US 4th Infantry Division . This would have been treated as another coincidence.