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Hudd also thought it unlikely that America would have been named after Vespucci's given name rather than his family name. Hudd used a quote from a late 15th-century manuscript (a calendar of Bristol events), the original of which had been lost in an 1860 Bristol fire, that indicated the name America was already known in Bristol in 1497. [23] [31]
Amerigo Vespucci (/ v ɛ ˈ s p uː tʃ i / vesp-OO-chee, [1] Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence for whom "America" is named.
The earliest known use of the name "America" dates to 1505, when German poet Matthias Ringmann used it in a poem about the New World. [2] The word is a Latinized form of the first name of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who first proposed that the West Indies discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 were part of a previously unknown landmass, rather than the eastern limit of Asia.
America is named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. [13]The name "America" was first recorded in 1507. A two-dimensional globe created by Martin Waldseemüller was the earliest recorded use of the term. [14]
Benjamin Franklin, born in 1706, was the oldest, while only a few were born after 1750 and thus were in their 20s. [271] [272] [273] The following sections discuss these and other demographic topics in greater detail.
And if you're wondering about our current commander in chief, there aren't many Obamas in the U.S., apart from the first family, but there were 11 little boys born in 2013 whose parents named them ...
The name "American Samoa" first started being used by the U.S. Navy around 1904, [112] and "American Samoa" was made official in 1911. [113] District of Columbia: 1738: Neo-Latin: Columbia: Named for Columbia, the national personification of the United States, which is itself named for Christopher Columbus. Guam: 1898 [115] [note 2] (December ...
Cruz argues that because his mother was born in Delaware, he was American at birth and therefore "natural-born." He even went so far as to renounce his Canadian citizenship in 2014, just to be safe.