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Fort Garry

(Encyclopedia) Fort Garry, two trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company, built on the present-day site of Winnipeg, Man., Canada, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. The first,…

national parks and monuments

(Encyclopedia) CE5 national parks and monuments. The National Park Service, a bureau of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, was established in 1916 to oversee the administration of 40 national parks…

Bam

(Encyclopedia) Bam Bam bäm [key], town, Kerman prov., SE Iran, on the intermittent Bam River. Located…

Cahokia Mounds

(Encyclopedia) Cahokia Mounds, approximately 85 surviving Native American earthworks, most in Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, SW Ill., near East St. Louis; largest group of mounds N of Mexico.…

Karnatic

(Encyclopedia) Karnatic, historic region, India: see Carnatic.

Fezzan

(Encyclopedia) Fezzan: see Fazzan, historic region, Libya.

Amherstburg

(Encyclopedia) Amherstburg, industrial town, S Ont., Canada, on the Detroit River. Fort Malden, built (1797–99) to replace a post lost when Detroit was ceded to the United States, is now…