Twittering One wrote:
"Topic:
Amerigo Vespucci

Today we mark the anniversary of the day the new world was put on the
map. We're speaking more figuratively than literally, but it was on
this date in 1507 that German geographer and cartographer Martin
Waldseemuller published his Introduction to Cosmography, with the
Four
Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci...."

~ Word for the Wise

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/wftw.pl



Amrigo Vespucci may have helped put America on the map, but the origin
of the name America is still in doubt.

The Old Norse word "ommerike" means "the remotest land", and since the
Norsemen were in America 500 years before Columbus or Vespucci, this
may be the name that stuck.

For an interesting discussion, see:

http://www.orange-street-church.org/...king.htm#start

Double-A