Word: indica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba-fills in the blanks on a prepared form asking the Cubans for prompt release of the aircraft and its passengers. U.S. air carriers in Miami have even issued bilingual cards to enable pilots to communicate with non-English-speaking skyjackers (Nos iremos a Cuba como usted indica-"Proceeding to Cuba as directed...
India (TERRA INDICA) is slewed around due east of the Mediterranean, with a diminished Asia and China to the north of it. Offshore, across the Magnum mare Tartarorum, are renderings of large offshore islands, probably based on reports of Japan. Africa is lopped off below Ethiopi, but shows the magnus [ft] uuius which is apparently the Niger. In the Atlantic, there are the two mythical quad-shaped islands beyond the Azores that most medieval cartographers insistently put in. But in the upper left-hand corner were the unmistakable outlines of Greenland and Vinland, the latter rounded off into an island...