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Friday 09 Jan 2015: The first use of America
The first recorded use of the name America for the continent in the Western Hemisphere is by German cartographers, Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann, in their map of 1507, in honour of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci from Florence.

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