Amerike

Historic concerns that the world''s only superpower could have so easily been called Vespucciland are eased by this new volume, which argues persuasively that the USA and all the Americas were named not after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci as conventional wisdom would have it but rather, a wealthy 15th century ...

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