Word: mapped
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...VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION, by Thomas E. Marston, R. A. Skelton, George D. Painter. The circumstances surrounding the recent discovery of the only known pre-Columbus map of the New World lands and the painstaking research to authenticate the faded document are chronicled in this scholarly and expensive ($15) volume. But the reproduction of the 1440 map alone is worth the price; Europe is as large as Africa and North America is a mere island-lopped off a little west of Hudson...
Senators Russell, Mansfield, Dodd, Saltonstall and Lausche joined the chorus. A cartoon in Monday's Boston Traveler showed a map of the United States with a huge column of students, marching in the form of a giant hammer and sickle...
Vellucci was incensed last week when Yale announced that it had found a map, drawn in 1440, which seemed to indicate that Norseman Leif Ericson, not Italian Christopher Columbus, discovered America...
...told them what they had dug up for a map was a hoax and a fraud and they probably drew the map up themselves," he said. "They're perpetrating a fraud on the millions of Italian-Americans in the United States...
Crawfordville, Georgia, is an easy town to miss. On a road map, it is only a tiny bubble on the main road from Augusta to Atlanta. Travelers by the dozens pass through the town every day without knowing its name--and without caring...