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On 5/22/98 11:44PM, in message <35665436.677B@mailcity.com>, Ron Sessions
<plugger@mailcity.com> wrote:

>America was never a country. It is a continent.

In the popular vernacular among the common people the above statement is not
true. The seven continents of planet earth was learned in our fourth grade
geography classes: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Antartica,
Austrailia, and Africa.

>Actually two. North and South America.

Four: North, South, Central, Latin

>Canadians are Americans, as are Mexicans.

 Not in the National sense.

>The US isn't America. Only part of it.

 The United States, save Hawaii, are on a large piece of land that
interconnects on a map. Europe and Asia are considered seperate continents,
but in reality are on the same one, sometimes referred to as "Eurasia."

   Let me quote my roomate on this subject. In one of his rare old posts
to Usenet he wrote:

 *America is German too!*

 The book, "Germany and America: 1450-1700: History of the
 German role in the Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement of
 the New World," by Friedrich Sachses:


 " The derivation of the name "America" is strictly a German
   one. Humboldt, an authority whom none will question and
   who was further supported by the opinion of Professor Von
   der Hag of the University of Berlin, shows that the Italian
   name of Amerigo is derived from the German Amalrich or
   Amelrich, which under the various forms of Amalric, Amalrih,
   Amulrich, was spread through Europe by the Goths and other
   Norther invaders.

   In glancing over the Cartography of the Western Hemisphere, it
   is also found that the first engraved map showing any portion
   of the Western continent, before the name America came into
   use, was a German map engraved by Johann ruysch as a supplement
   to the Latin edition of Ptolemy, 1508. The same was the case with
   the earliest map and the earliest terrestrial globe upon which
   the name America appeared.

   The former was the handiwork of another German, Peter Bienewitz,
   a native of Saxony and one of the noted mathematicians of the
   day. In the same year, 1520, the German, Johannes Schooner, who
   for more than twenty years exercised a dominating influence in
   the cartography of the new world, as he kept pace with the new
   discoveries and issued globes with an explanatory text, completed
   the celebrated terrestrial globe which is still preserved in
   Nurnberg, and is distinctively known by his name. It is upon
   this globe that the name "America" appears for the first time.

   It will thus be seen that the naming of the Western continent,
   "America", was due entirely to the German geographers of the
   period, the example set by Waldseemuller, Apainus, and Schoner
   being eventually followed by the geographies and map-makers of
   all nations."
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