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Posted: 10/8/2007 10:23:03 AM EDT
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America is named after Amerigo Vespucci's latinized name, Americus Vespucius
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Posted: 10/8/2007 10:28:45 AM EDT
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I thought it was going to be, "There's no 'U' in 'America.'"
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Posted: 10/8/2007 10:30:50 AM EDT
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yep |
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Posted: 10/8/2007 10:33:13 AM EDT
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If I remember correctly he was a mapmaker that was one of the first people to realize that the Americas were a new land/continent and not the "West Indies" that may Europeans had hoped they were. |
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Posted: 10/8/2007 10:34:10 AM EDT
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Don't you think "Vespucciland" would sound way better? 
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Posted: 10/8/2007 10:54:21 AM EDT
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Yeah, why was there a parade downtown yesterday?
Why is there a river, a space shuttle and towns all over our country named Columbus/Columbia? Everyone knows that North America was discovered by Vikings over a thousand years ago, right? I, for one, am a proud Vespuccian. Colonel Hurtz |
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Posted: 10/8/2007 10:58:25 AM EDT
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Amerigo's parents named him that, because they wanted him to "love riches"... |
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Posted: 10/8/2007 11:00:50 AM EDT
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Neocon bastages... 
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Posted: 10/8/2007 11:06:40 AM EDT
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The ironing is delicious. |
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Posted: 10/8/2007 11:42:31 AM EDT
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Yeah, I know that. It doesn't change what I said. |
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Posted: 10/8/2007 11:45:14 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/8/2007 11:45:23 AM EDT
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Its a conspiracy, skull and bones and all that shit. Its Bush's fault.
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Posted: 10/8/2007 12:04:01 PM EDT
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Bush turned me into a newt!
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