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From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America ... continent might need a rewrite. The map ...

He explores the roots of lacrosse in the indigenous experience of North America before the continent acquired its name, and how the sport flourished on the huge landmass now home to the U.S. and ...

Scott walked me over to a map in the gas station ... been partially effaced. In America, that line feels as real as the day John Cabot set foot on the North American continent.

he’s the first American pope. Francis is Argentine, the child and grandchild of Italian immigrants, and the first to be born in “América.” Though geography divides it into two continents ...

though on many mental maps it is mostly in the southern hemisphere directly across the Atlantic from South America. Courtesy John Nelson, Esri Another commonly misplaced continent is Africa.