God Bless Amerigo
By NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
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It's one of the stranger quirks of
history and geography. The continent
that was supposedly discovered by
Christopher Columbus is named for
a decidedly second-rate
Johnny-come-lately of an explorer
named Amerigo Vespucci.
Like Columbus, Vespucci was an
Italian who sailed on occasion under
the flag of Spain. But unlike Columbus,
Vespucci was more at home in a
counting house than a sailing ship.
(Even Ralph Waldo Emerson,
normally a booster of all things
American, dismissed him as a mere
"pickle dealer.") What Vespucci did
have, according to Felipe
Fernandez-Armesto's wonderfully
idiosyncratic and intelligent new
biography of the explorer, was a
gift for chicanery and self-promotion,
along with an aching need to be
remembered. As it turns out,
America -- this nation of notorious
hucksters, dreamers and spin
doctors -- was named for just
the right guy. ...
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AMERIGO
The Man Who Gave His Name to America.
By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto.
231 pp. Random House. $24.95.
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On Sep 8, 2:36 pm, Amerigo Vespucci
vespucci.org> wrote:>> On Sep 2, 6:14 pm, Planet Jupiter wrote:
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>> "This Awareness indicates that in regard to
>> the Reptoids that were destined for earth,
>> these have been accepted by the planet
>> Jupiter as previously indicated. Those who
>> remain there are more or less entrapped.
>> They are still living and are not
>> suffering from their experience there.
>> They have undergone a mutation to allow
>> them to adapt to the environment of Jupiter.
>> It does not appear that they will be a
>> threat to this galaxy, at least for several
>> centuries. This Awareness indicates more
>> likely, at least a millennium. This Awareness
>> indicates that this will allow many of the
>> alien Greys to free themselves from the
>> control of the Draconian Reptoids so that
>> they can pursue a new direction and purpose,
>> not under the influence of the
>> Draconian Reptoids." --_Those Reptoids
>> Trapped inside Jupiter_ -- from a 1994 reading:
>>
http://bleujefe.com/BB/datruth/cac/94-16-01.htm>
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