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11861) Using topographic maps
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Want to know how tall Mount Everest is? Topographic maps use lines to show the height and shape of Earth's surface. But how do you read the lines? Read on to learn all about topographic maps!
11862) Using road maps and GPS
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Looks at how people use maps and GPS to find their way around, including details about routes, landmarks, and sites.
11863) Military battle maps
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Hundreds of spectacular, fully detailed color maps of important military campaigns. Includes maps for the American Revolution, Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, and Arab-Israeli Wars.
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"A Place Called America takes the long view of the land's history from its earliest formation and inhabitants up through today. Meet those indigenous to the deserts, prairies, forests, and shores of the land called Turtle Island and their relatives who contributed to World War II and whose ideas founded the basis of the Constitution. Meet immigrant communities, who came to the land from all around the world-at different times and against all odds,...
11866) Captain Dom's treasure
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Definitely Dominguita volume 2
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"When Dominguita finds an old map in the back of an even older book in her beloved library, she is excited to see a telltale X marking an unknown place. Everyone knows that X marks the spot for treasure--and Dom knows that means a new adventure for her, Pancho, and Steph! But everyone seems to think that the map, while fun, probably isn't real. Dom is determined to prove them wrong. And as the trio starts to uncover the mystery of the map, they realize...
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Grady and his father inherit the town oddball's old tapestry and discover it is a highly coveted treasure map.
When Grady and his dad learn that the town oddball, Eudora "Kooky" Klinch left something for them in her will, they can only imagine what it might be. When it turns out it's an old scrap of 300-year-old tapestry, they are bitterly disappointed. But the cloth comes with a note saying, "This is no ordinary piece of needlework. It's a treasure...