Word: vespucci
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this pageantry, the bitter fact remains that Americans know all too little about the pickle. What schoolchild, for example, realizes that Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to a hemisphere, once dealt in the pickle traffic in Spain? It is probably safe to say that few college graduates could supply the answer to such a question. Furthermore, how many citizens know that in a broader sense, the term "pickle" can be applied to any saline or acid preservative solution...
Pravda would make as much sense as Eaton if it concluded that Americans were wicked because their name was derived from Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian and, therefore, a Fascist beast. Not even Pravda would try that. Eaton's article drew an angry and effective answer from Alexander Kerensky, who has been fighting the Soviet Government since the Bolsheviks kicked him out of the presidency of Russia 30 years ago. Wrote Kerensky in last week's New Leader...
...analysis of the news, CBS London then transfers its listeners to CBS Barcelona and Commentator Amerigo Vespucci. Comments Vespucci: "It is impossible to conceive the full significance of the news we have just heard. The land which Admiral Colón has just reached is Cibango, or the legendary island of Japan. . . . Shortly many will follow [him]. I will be among them...
...Amerigo Vespucci calculated the circumference of the earth at the equator at 24,852 miles. Modern science has found it to be 24,902. (Columbus' estimate was 6,125 miles short.) On his voyages Amerigo remained awake, night after sleepless night, to study the stars and try to reason out what changes the New World's discovery forced in the science of navigation. "In the endeavor to ascertain longitude I have lost much sleep," said Amerigo, "and have shortened my life ten years, but I hold it well worth the cost. . . ." Columbus, the intuitive, estimated the speed...
...Vespucci anchored in a Brazilian harbor on Aug. 17, 1499, after a fight with natives that left his men "grievously wounded and weary." He remained in harbor until Sept. 5, 1499. There, by a brilliant calculation based on the distance between the moon and Mars ("lunar distance"), he evolved a way of learning where he was and how far he had traveled...