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Monday, March 15, 2010

Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1454, in Portugal. He was usually accredited for the discovery that America is actually a new continent. But the letters that he probably wrote and made him quite famous were probably accounts based on his voyages and may not have been written by him. One fact I found interesting was that Christopher Columbus held no ill will towards Vespucci. The letters I just talked about pointed to him having 4 voyages but there is not must information on the fourth or if there was even a fourth voyage.

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