~ Amerigo Vespucci ...

"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

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

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Fascinating.

It's only been a little while
Since I could make you laugh and smile
A little time has passed away
Since I could talk to you each day

Not long ago when through the park
Lost in a happy kind of lark
We walked together hand in hand
Through Mother Nature's forest land

Or danced together in the night
We held each other oh so tight
And dear I hope that you may know
That that is what I needed so

But now it's lonely in my room
With dusty books and settling gloom
And icy winter comes again
And takes the place where love has been

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