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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Amruca - Land of the plumed serpent. That’s what the Incas called this land. That’s where we got the name.


50 posted on 01/07/2025 12:42:57 PM PST by youngidiot (Race is irrelevant to everyone except the racists )
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To: youngidiot

The tradition is that it was named after Amerigo Vespucci.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci#Naming_of_America


52 posted on 01/07/2025 12:49:28 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: youngidiot

I was always taught we got the name from the Italian explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci. He was from the Republic of Florence and participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery between 1497 and 1504, first on behalf of Spain and then for Portugal.


53 posted on 01/07/2025 12:51:46 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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