This World Map Of Literally Translated Country Names Will Amaze You. ByDuncan Madden, Contributor. ... The name America likely comes from Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, ...

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

But the above map (which is broken down into smaller bits below) should help. Credit Card Compare For more detailed information on the background of each of these country names, click here .

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014 ...

Enter your last name and you'll get back a world map with the countries where your name is most common colored in. Unsurprisingly, my last name has the highest frequency per million people in ...

A hiker and outdoorsman, Mr. Thomas as a child yearned for a world where nature ruled supreme. His map represents the “idealistic planet that I wanted,” Mr. Thomas, 34, said.

In March I wrote about a world map where the country names had been translated to their original literal meanings, as far as anyone could be sure. Language, after all, is a complex and confusing ...