Friday, December 18, 2015

The Americas are named after him...........an Italian........


    Amerigo Vespucci
    Explorer
    Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured ... Wikipedia
    BornMarch 9, 1454, Florence, Italy
    DiedFebruary 22, 1512, Seville, Spain
    NationalityItalian
    SpouseMaria Cerezo (m. ?–1512)

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