Library Buys First Map of 'America' For $10 Million. June 18, 2003. By Linton Weeks. To find the most expensive single item ever acquired by the Library of Congress, you're going to need a map.

This 500-year old map is one of the first to show the new world as a distinct continent. Photo: DPA/LMU Tucked away in a geometry book at the Munich University Library, researchers found a 500 ...

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Trump team announces renaming of Gulf of Mexico, Mt. Denali among Day 1 executive orders 03:56. Google Maps users in the United States can expect to see the body of water known for centuries as ...

The map seemed to be an unbelievable find, an unknown fifth original of the rarest of documents, a vision of the world, circa 1507, by famed German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. It features ...

Google Maps changes Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America for U.S. users 00:42. The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States, keeping with the terms ...

Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America as the name for the large body of water. Bloomberg reported the change would be rolled out to users in the U.S. first before being rolled out globally.

The first map of the United States drawn and printed in America by an American was, until a few years ago, hardly known at all. Only seven original copies exist, and the best preserved is now on ...

The map seemed to be an unbelievable find, an unknown fifth original of the rarest of documents, a vision of the world, circa 1507, by famed German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller.