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• Nilbogboh: Oops. Responded to the wrong post. My apologies! – World map with place names swapped out for their original meanings
• Nilbogboh: Nope. Where do people learn this crap? – World map with place names swapped out for their original meanings
• Nilbogboh: Nope. Everything you just said is incorrect. Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 map named the continents America... – World map with place names swapped out for their original meanings
• Nilbogboh: Incorrect. Martin Waldseemuller was a mapmaker who first called the continents America after Amerigo Vespucci... – World map with place names swapped out for their original meanings
• Paul Luchter: Bushwick in Brooklyn comes from a Dutch name for lush green land, or simr. During... – World map with place names swapped out for their original meanings
• Paul Luchter: Also,some AMerican native names are not where the actual natives lived. For example, the Illinois... – World map with place names swapped out for their original meanings
• Paul Luchter: Why are a few current place names like Bridgeport, Hartford and Springfield left on these... – World map with place names swapped out for their original meanings