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...German geographer named Martin Waldseemüller drew two maps of the known world. As research, he used the recent account of Florentine Navigator Amerigo Vespucci, who said he had found a new continent, actually South America. Waldseemüller named the land after its apparent discoverer-the first use of the word America for the New World...
Only later did Waldseemüller learn that in 1492 another navigator named Columbus had preceded Vespucci to the West. Waldseemüller tried to correct his error, but the misnomer stuck. His maps, one of them a rendition of the globe in twelve elliptical segments, became rare treasures for antiquarians...
...distinguished history as the only effective weapon against the recurrent fevers of malaria, quinine is still highly regarded in Europe and among many older Americans (especially in the recently malarial South) for treating fevers. Last week, in Munich's Medizinische Wochen-schrift, Dr. Wolfgang-Dietrich Müller damned quinine with the results of a study on thousands of patients in Bielefeld. Among those who took quinine pills at the first sniffle, Asian flu was five to ten times as common as among those who let nature do its best. Quinine, he suggested, may actually be harmful by blocking...
...brought together a total of 150 sketches and paintings. Of the seven major works that Seurat painted in his brief lifetime, four (from London, France, The Netherlands and Chicago) are present at the show. One indication of their value: both the director of The Netherlands' Rijksmuseum Kröller-Muller and the curator of France's Louvre insisted on accompanying their Seurat loans...
...leidender Engel (suffering angel), the shopgirl's ideal, when the Schell smile was as famous in Germany as the Monroe walkaway was in the U.S. Maria and Dieter Borsche, with whom she was starred in Es Kommt Ein Tag, were the "ideal couple" of Lieschen Müller (the Jane Doe of Central Europe), whose interest was still further excited by rumors that the passion was even more flaming off the screen than on. In 1952, when Borsche was replaced by O. W. Fischer, "Schell-Fisch" became an even more popular couple...