[BGHater]

Another interesting Map:

The Piri Reis Map

[BGHater]

General map ping.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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Thank you!

[rfp1234]

Whew - we could have become the United States of Vespuccia.

Vespucci, by the way, is derived from vespa ("wasp").

[SuziQ]

Bump for later Friday reading

[Diver Dave]

Cool map. Doubt Google Maps will incorporate it into their library. :)

[martin_fierro]

There's more. The name America, for example, very probably represents not just a tip of the hat to Amerigo Vespucci but also a multilingual pun that can mean both "born new" and "no-place-land" - a playful coinage that seems to have inspired Sir Thomas More to invent his new world across the ocean, one meaning of which was also "no-place": Utopia.

CONFIRMED!

[SunkenCiv]

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