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Many people know that Amerika was named after Amerigo Vespucci. It turns out tha Amerigo is the Medieval Italian name for Emmerich, a rather uninspiring German city close to the Dutch border.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm. I read the Templar story. Merica.