Trivia Of The Day May 10

The Italian cartographer and explorer Amerigo Vespucci was one of the first Europeans to suggest that the lands discovered by Europeans across the Atlantic were not part of Asia, as Christopher Columbus believed, but instead a "New World." In 1507, a German cartographer named Martin Waldseemüller created a world map in which he labeled the new continent “America” in honor of Americus Vespucius, the Latinized version of Amerigo Vespucci's name.

In 1912 Lovey's String Band travelled from Trinidad to New York City to make the first calypso recordings.

The word "Christian" only appears three times in the Bible.

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