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Originally posted by Ausar
honestly america is "heaven" or the land you reach when you send a person off to sea who is dead. it was known about for thousand of years according to egyptologist, and kemetically it means "oh blessed spirit".
Originally posted by Lisakitty
The discovery of America was a very sad day for the American Indians, no matter who got there first.edit on 4-11-2010 by Lisakitty because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Skid Mark
How do you discover a place that is already populated? I can imagine people on the beach watching the boats come in saying "Look! Boats!" I'm just saying.
On 12 October 1492 Christopher Columbus was the first to reach land to the west of America in the Bahamas. Christopher Columbus was followed by Vespucci and many other explorers who were all searching for a passage to the Indies. In 1507 the German mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller, printed the first map that used the name 'America' for the New World clearly named after Amerigo Vespucci.