[BGHater]

‘America’ Ping.

[MaineConservative]

I wonder if he saw the west coast — from an alien spaceship!! LOL

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks BGHater! This was, of course, in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine navigator who had sailed to the New World for the Portuguese. (His first name was Latinized to "Americus" and then feminized to "America.") The act of naming was apparently Waldseemueller's alone; there is no evidence that the term was in use at the time. $10 million for this old piece of paper? Spending that money on an old worthless map -- better maps are now available -- is against the Constitution! /sarc To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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