Word: amerigo
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...story of how immigrants from the Old World conquered the New. As the historian Carl Wittke noted, eight nationalities were represented on Columbus' first voyage to a continent that eventually received its name from a German mapmaker (Martin Walseemuller) working in a French college, who honored an Italian explorer (Amerigo Vespucci) sailing under the flag of Portugal...
...coca plant is part of the cultural fabric of the northern Andes. Inca nobility chewed the plant, as suggested by the discovery of pre-Columbian statues with bulging cheeks--presumably crammed with coca leaves. The same practice was observed by the explorer Amerigo Vespucci in what is now northern Venezuela during his first voyage around the world...
...grounded. This earlier Calvino may not have been quite ready for a tragic mask, but his wink is closer to a tic and his grin is spastic. The title story unwinds like an old Vittorio De Sica film in slow motion. A member of the Communist Party, Amerigo Ormea is assigned to be an election watcher at the Cottolengo Hospital for Incurables in Turin. As Amerigo officiously keeps the morons and vegetable cases from being recorded as Christian Democrat votes, Calvino demonstrates ironically that the Catholic Church and the Communist Party may have more in common than either thinks...
...Just because they found a rock with some Jewish writing on it does not prove anything. You'd think everybody discovered America, which by the way is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian gentleman," he said...
Some have suggested that our entire continent or our nation should have been called Columbia, after Columbus. We all know that the name is derived from Amerigo Vespussi, an Italian who sailed with Columbus, and who later wrote a detailed account of his journey...