Amerigo Vespucci
1454-1512
Italian Merchant and Geographer
Amerigo Vespucci was one of the most important personalities of the European Age of Exploration. His vast knowledge of geography would set th...
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Amerigo Vespucci
Born March 18, 1454, Florence, Italy Died February 22, 1512, Seville, Spain
Amerigo Vespucci was the first to determine that South America was a separate, previously unknown contine...
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A Florentine navigator and pilot major of Castile, Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), for whom America is named, is no longer accused of having conspired to supplant Columbus; but interpretation of documen...
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Off about Amerigo--whole continent named after him, but no statues anywhere...Two of his letters Mundus Novus were "the greatest literary successes of the 16th century." Translated and read all over E...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday officially handed over to the United States the 500-year-old map that was the first to tell the world of a new land it called America.Library of Congress h...
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Centuries before it became a continent or country synonymous with wealth, power, freedom or democracy, "America" was coined by a Renaissance cartographer as the catchall designation for a world tha...
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The great idea that led Columbus to conquer the ocean in 1492 was that the world was small enough to reach the riches and spices of the East by sailing west.Columbus always would remain convinced t...
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Today is Wednesday, April 25, the 115th day of 2007. There are 250 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Five hundred years ago, on April 25, 1507, America got its name from German car...
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Christopher Columbus has his big day with a pair of documentaries.The two-hour films premiere in most cities head-to-head on PBS and the History Channel at 9 p.m. EDT Monday (check local listings),...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only surviving copy of the
500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on
permanent display this month at the Library of Congress, but even
as it prepares for...
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Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci
Life of Amerigo Vespucci
U.S. given German map that named America
