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Right? Waldseemüller labeled the part of the world that he envisioned as explored by Vespucci, America, feminizing the Latin form of Vespucci's given name, Americus. He chose the feminine form to be consistent with the Latinized names of other countries at the time, such as Europa and Asia. It was geographer Gerardus Mercator who extended the ...
Nov 27, 2023 · The Pomeranian breed was named after Pomerania, an area in Northeastern Europe which is now part of Poland and Western Germany, where the breed originated from. The Pomeranian was bred from it’s Spitz breed ancestors, including the Norwegian Elkhound, the Schipperke, the German Spitz, the American Eskimo Dog and the Samoyed.
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Mar 29, 2011 · On a voyage of discovery at the end of the 15th century Christopher Columbus, thinking he had missed China and reached the Indian Ocean, found and named the West Indies. On his third voyage, in ...
Jul 3, 2018 · Born around 1470, Waldseemüller drew his seminal map in 1507 with a colleague, Matthias Ringmann. He created a 32-square-foot woodcut map that had a land mass separate from Europe or Asia, in its ...
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Jan 12, 2024 · Discovering the etymological roots of the Pomeranian breed name origin leads us to the shores of historic Pomerania. The moniker, derived from the coastal region nestled by the Baltic Sea, translates to “on the sea,” mirroring the breed’s geographical origins with its nautical resonance.
Discover how the name America originated from the explorer Amerigo Vespucci in this blog post from the Library of Congress.
In 1715, after the Calvert family had renounced Catholicism and embraced Anglicanism, the colony reverted back to a proprietary form of government. United States - Colonization, Revolution, Constitution: When Columbus arrived, he found the New World inhabited by peoples who in all likelihood had originally come from the continent of Asia.
