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Rise and Shine

  • amolosh
  • Jan 21
  • 1 min read

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Allegory of the New World, depicting Vespucci awakening the sleeping America (ca. 1587–89). Metropolitan Museum, New York.


Amerigo Vespucci

Did the hootchy-cootchy—

Being to blame

For the whole late-renaming game!


January 21, 2025

 
 
 

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 Cyclops by Christos Saccopoulos, used by kind permission of the sculptor.

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