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North America North and South America are generally accepted as having been named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by the German cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann. Vespucci, who explored South America between 1497 and 1502, was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a different landmass previously unknown by Europeans. In 1507, Waldseemüller produced a world map, in which he placed the word "America" on the continent of South America, in the middle of what is today Brazil. He explained the rationale for the name in the accompanying book Cosmographiae Introductio, For Waldseemüller, no one should object to the naming of the land after its discoverer. He used the Latinized version of Vespucci's name (Americus Vespucius), but in its feminine form "America", following the examples of "Europa" and "Asia". Later, when other mapmakers added North America, they extended the original name to it as well in 1538, Gerard Mercator used the name America to all of the Western Hemisphere on his world map.[4]
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The Lessons The Homeless Taught Me About Marketing My Home Based Business
by Chris Stirling
Sep 08, 2005
Copyright 2005 Chris StirlingLike so many people in North America I live in a city that
has too many people living on the streets and who are
homeless or in need of financial assistance. So often these
people approach me asking for "spare...
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