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Why did the mapmaker name the territory America and then change his mind later? How was he able to draw South America so accurately? Why did he put a huge ocean west of America years before European explorers discovered the Pacific?
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Morrissey’s response to recent allegations by the NME (which, by the way, you would have to pay me to read now, and pay me very well – say, double the writers’ rates?)
links for 2007-12-06: Mysterious maps, Morrissey
Posted in history, Maps and Legends, music, politics, _del.icio.us
Tagged Conor McNicholas, history, litigation, map, Maps-and-Legends, Morrissey, music, NME, Pacific, racism, Waldseemuller
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