Word: introductio
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...Lorraine. One of the buildings blown up had worn a plaque which told of something that few Americans, North or South, know about. It was there, on April 25, 1507, that a group of scholars and poets ran off on their press a book named Cosmographiae Introductio. In it, for the first time, appeared the name of America. Wrote the author in Latin: "I see no reason why we should not call it America, that is to say, land of Americus, for Americus its discoverer, man of sagacious wit . . ." The name stuck...
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