The sky is colored green, white and red, while the silhouette of the most famous sailing ship in the world appears on the ...

And yet they named the country after an Italian White man, Amerigo Vespucci. That's what America is named after, Amerigo Vespucci, a White European," she said. "Why was it named after a White man ...

Words on maps have sticking power, writes Art Historian Stephanie Leitch. What are the implications of Google's Gulf of ...

"The View" co-host Joy Behar complained during the show on Thursday that America was named after a White man, Amerigo Vespucci, while discussing the Gulf of America renaming.

Unlike Columbus, who had sailed before him, the Florentine merchant Amerigo Vespucci seemed alert to the fact that he had bumped into a world new to Europe, a fourth part of the world. It was his ...

They include: Advertisement -- Explorer Amerigo Vespucci in 1454 -- Leland Stanford, railroad builder and founder of California's Stanford University, in 1824 -- Writer Victoria "Vita" Sackville ...