Washington: As online titans compete to deliver instant maps to smartphones, the Library of Congress in Washington is focusing attention on an antique "cosmology" printed in 1507 that serves as America's birth certificate.
The black-and-white map created by Martin Waldseemuller, a French cleric, was the first time the name America had appeared on any map.
Waldseemuller was prescient enough to show the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean at a time when no one else in Europe thought they were there.
The map, purchased a decade ago at a cost of $10 million, is the centrepiece of an exhibit at the Library of Congress running through June 22 that features a collection of artifacts from Waldseemuller and his colleagues....
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11:59 PM, Apr 05, 2013
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03:23 PM, Mar 29, 2013
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02:48 PM, Mar 22, 2013
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11:53 PM, Mar 15, 2013
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07:14 PM, Mar 08, 2013
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11:48 PM, Mar 01, 2013
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05:17 PM, Mar 01, 2013
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03:22 PM, Feb 21, 2013
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11:42 PM, Feb 15, 2013
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11:40 PM, Feb 01, 2013
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11:55 AM, Jan 19, 2013
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Suhasini Haidar asks a select panel of global experts what should we look forward to in 2013 as far as the international events are concerned. ...
11:20 PM, Jan 05, 2013
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What should we look forward to in 2013 as far as the international events are concerned? Join CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar as she asks the question to a select panel of global experts in World View on Saturday at 10 pm. ...
10:48 AM, Jan 05, 2013
What should we look forward to in 2013 as far as the international events are concerned? Join CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar as she asks the question to a select panel of global experts in World View on Saturday at 10 pm. ...
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