~ 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

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