Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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- CALLES0
take that invisiblechamber
1) First use of America on map, after explorer Amerigo Vespucci. 2) The Pacific not confirmed until six years after map made. 3) Old World shown as the ancients saw it. 4) New eastern sea route to India. 5) The legendary island of Taprobane. 6) Reference to legendary king Prester John.
Drawn half a millennium ago and then swiftly forgotten, one map made us see the world as we know it today... and helped name America. But, as Toby Lester has discovered, the most powerful nation on earth also owes its name to a pun.
- this is factwise and visually mindbending.invisiblechamber
- I need this in high resolution plz.Point5
- fuck, that map is worth $10milli?Point5
- I hate to break it to you but america wasn't named after amerigo vespuccibolus
- CALLES0
- keep em comin calles. Its friday afternoon and im bored.baseline_shift
- hahahah, if only********
- GeorgesII0
Calles, Imma let you finish, but the chinese and the turks had the best maps of all time
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- fooler20
- WHAT?! Link?baseline_shift
- http://gothamist.com…
welcome.MisterPants - WTF?! man, this is some shit. that dude is just praying that tiger hasn't seen the Matrix.Point5
- humans are stupidier than stupidbenfal99
- GeorgesII0
- i don't know what's sadder...Kiggen
- Is it anyhow funny?ItalianStallion
- dasohr0
- Juggalosepic_rim
- wtf is this all about? never heard of a "juggalo". disturbing.pizzafire
- I'm ashamed to say I've seen ICP in concert twice. But the second time wasn't my fault.ninjasavant
- Nothing wrong with juggalos.blaw
- wtf is a juggelo?johanito
- man, they have a gathering in pa every year... so bad...showpony
- america fuck yeah?benfal99
- is that hell?quamb
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