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Terra Incognita
the true story of how AMERICA got its name
News Release
July 24, 2001
United States
Library of Congress purchases
Waldseemuller map for $10,000,000
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Rodney Broome
Why "AMERICA"?
Waldseeemuller map
and how the name America came
to be written on it
Quotation from Samuel Eliot Morison "European Discovery of America"
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Richard Amerike (also Ap Meryk) was a wealthy merchant and government official living in Bristol, England, from ca. 1440 - 1503.
He was the principal financial investor in the expedition led by John Cabot.
He sailed from Bristol in 1497 in a ship called
the "Matthew" and is credited with officially "discovering" North America.
This is Richard Amerike's story.
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Educare Press
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certainly derives from
the name of an Englishman
who was of Welsh descentand not, as it is popularly believed,
from the Italian,
Amerigo Vespucci.
