Walt wrote:
Ed Conrad wrote:
a bunch of crap, mercifully snipped

All I can say is "God Bless Vespucciland"

//Walt

What Vespucciland?, Amerika as in Richard Americk
Had a whole continent named after him, America!
He was wholly Welsh , surname Ap Meurig. In 1491 He was working as the
senior customs official in Bristol and regularly sent supplies to ships
in the fishing grounds off Newfoundland. In 1497 he authorised John
Cabot to search for the new land.