Students in Joshua Rose’s class studied the contributions of explorers such as Samuel de Champlain, Hernando de Soto, Francisco Pizarro, and Amerigo Vespucci ... photos and maps before ...

(ANSA) - DOHA, DEC 20 - The chests of drawers in the route cabin preserve maps of every corner of the world. On the shelves, which are especially designed for the Italian Navy's Amerigo Vespucci ...

Changing maps to say "Gulf of America" doesn't change history, and likely won't change what most people call the massive ...

Google announced Monday that it will add the new name to Google Maps as soon as it's acknowledged ... in tribute to Italian explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci. He was among the first ...

If you visit the Speaker’s office, Yousuf Karsh’s iconic black-and-white photo stares out at you. Look deeper around the Hill ...

Donald Trump is about to take office as the new/old president. New, because he won election as the nation’s 47th president. Old because, as no one can forget, he was the nation’s 45th president.

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

On the bottom left was a narrow strip of land marked “America”, inspired by Amerigo Vespucci’s first name. The US Library of Congress says of the map: “Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map… supported ...

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