+32 No one ever talks about Amerigo Vespucci. amirite?

by Anonymous 10 months ago

I named my dog Amerigo when I was a kid. His full name was Amerigo Vespoochy

by Cortneyturner 10 months ago

Must have been tough being such a young dad. I salute you

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Poochy died on the way back to his home planet

by Hour_Sort1458 10 months ago

We're talking about him right now!

by Parking_Tree_6989 10 months ago

Is he… in the room with us right now?

by BigNo 10 months ago

He's behind you.

by Parking_Tree_6989 10 months ago

only the female scooters have a vespucci

by Anonymous 10 months ago

People got fed up of living in Vespuccia.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Oof if only they know they could all have been Vespuccians. USV babe xD

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Ahhh or you'll anger the Columbus Conspiracy Crew.

by SecureLow 10 months ago

Or Fats Domino, it's the strangest thing

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Or Martin Van Buren. What's wrong with people?

by Anonymous 10 months ago

The van buren boys will teach you a lesson

by isaacsanford 10 months ago

I remember doing a school project on him in the 5th grade. He is why the Americas are called the Americas

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Groundbreaking research there.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Bad PR. Next time, Amer should hire a better agency.

by Konopelskiverdi 10 months ago

Or Washington Irving. He did wonders for Columbus and Paul Revere.

by Worried-Set4918 10 months ago

Baffling to me. America is literally named after him and they don't have a clue.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Do you know who any other country is named for? I certainly don't.

by jmaggio 10 months ago

One country is not the same as two entire continents.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Ok then tell me who the other continents are named for.

by jmaggio 10 months ago

We talk about him enough to know who he was.

by Exotic-Tip-8036 10 months ago

His name is too hard to pronounce.

by Brantlockman 10 months ago

You can simply call him ‘Murgo

by Anonymous 10 months ago

I prefer Pucci.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Probably not a lot of talk about Vasco DaGama either.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Glad his first name was used. Can you imagine the song: 🎶 God Bless Vespucci…land that I love 🎵 It just doesn't sound right.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Ahh, a name we're all familiar with whether we know it or not.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Who is this (I'm assuming) legend?

by Ecstatic-Employee 10 months ago

And to think, if his parents named him Josh instead...... Would we be living in Joshland?

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Josh is short for Joshua meaning "God is deliverance" so we are lucky it's not named somewhat after him. But almost every state/country is named after a person/persons when you break it down

by Anonymous 10 months ago

In some countries of LATAM and in Spain, you can find many streets named after him

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Maybe because he was a slave trader. He didn't name the continents. A German cartographer used the name on his charts, and it was picked up through popular usage.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Wait... so America is America cause some dude wrote his name on a map; which another dude just said "meh", and named the continent that on his map?

by Ok_Flamingo_8594 10 months ago

Correct. That's history for you, much more incidental than most people realize.

by Glad_Football5943 10 months ago

WWI (and possibly WWII, the much acclaimed sequel) could have been prevented if the Archduke's driver hadn't taken a wrong turn.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

It's not that incidental

by Anonymous 10 months ago

I learned about him in school.

by danikapowlowski 10 months ago

I do. People aren't that interested most of the time.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

That's a nice Italian name.

by Murky_Set_8842 10 months ago

I mean what a stupid first name, right?

by Anonymous 10 months ago

He was excellent at shuffleboard.

by Key-Sign-3110 10 months ago

They should have named his discovery Vespuccistan.

by Several-Jaguar-2366 10 months ago

Wasn't she at The Oscars?

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Except on The Vespucci Hour on Explorer FM Ameriiiigo, he got there first!

by Anonymous 10 months ago

The American Pickers sure do, especially Mike.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

We are now and we all know who you're talking about sooo......No.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

Lots of us did in school. In the before times where schools were about education and not meat flap toilet issues.

by Anonymous 10 months ago

We don't talk about Bruno

by Short-Commercial 10 months ago