Zu verdanken ist dies dem badischen Kartografen Martin Waldseemüller. Der erstellte 1507 die erste Weltkarte mit dem neuen Kontinent. Obwohl er ein Zeitgenosse Christoph Kolumbus' war ...

The great cartographers, such as Claudius Ptolemy, Martin Waldseemüller, Muhammad al-Idrisi, Abraham Ortelius, and Gerardus Mercator, have left an enduring legacy in history. Their ability to ...

Donald Trump’s determination to rename the Gulf of Mexico could be a bombastic negotiating tactic — or signal a return to ...

Apparently, the very name “America” was sort of an accident by mapmakers back in the 1500s, starting when German cartographer ...

Nonetheless, when a German scholar named Matthias Ringmann caught hold of these letters, he and fellow cartographer Martin Waldseemüller decided to create a map of the world, which would include this ...

The Democratic National Committee elected Ken Martin as its chair on Saturday afternoon, as the party looks to new leadership to help steer it through President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

Ken Martin, a longtime Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair, was elected chair of the Democratic National Committee. Martin has a strong track record in Minnesota, but faces the challenge of ...

Farmer Tony Martin, who shot dead a burglar in 1999, has died aged 80, his friend has said. Martin was initially convicted of murdering 16-year-old Fred Barras but this was reduced to manslaughter ...

Ken Martin, the head of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, was decisively elected chair of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday, beating a crowded field in the first round of ...

OXON HILL, Md. -- Democrats on Saturday elected Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, as the national chair, turning to a low-profile Midwestern political operative to coordinate their ...

Minnesota politics is back in the national spotlight this weekend. State DFL Party Chair Ken Martin is now the chair of the Democratic National Committee, in charge of recruiting and organizing ...