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**Zhgrlpil** · 07-14-2008, 07:12 AM

Originally posted by MOBIUS
Really?

Well if it was named after him, then why isn't the US called Vespuccia, or my personal favourite, Vespucciland (just down the road from Disneyland...

)...? He was a cartographer. Supposedly after making maps of the new world he wrote "America" or something close to that on the big empty spots.

07-14-2008, 07:12 AM	#5
Zhgrlpil Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 456 Senior Member	Originally posted by MOBIUS Really? Well if it was named after him, then why isn't the US called Vespuccia, or my personal favourite, Vespucciland (just down the road from Disneyland...)...? He was a cartographer. Supposedly after making maps of the new world he wrote "America" or something close to that on the big empty spots.
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