And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Amerigo Vespucci training ship of the Italian Navy, by Alberto Simonetto, 2022
Long before the white man arrived in the Americas, the Indigenous people of this continent called this land, Amaruca (land of the plumed serpent). After the eradication of the Incas it was changed to America. institutionalized education will never tell you the truth. You must seek it out
Named after him for whom our continents, North and South, are named.
ReplyDeleteThey used his first name too, otherwise we'd be living in Vespucciland!
DeleteLong before the white man arrived in the Americas, the Indigenous people of this continent called this land, Amaruca (land of the plumed serpent).
ReplyDeleteAfter the eradication of the Incas it was changed to America.
institutionalized education will never tell you the truth.
You must seek it out
Which indigenous people? California all by itself had over 100 separate languages.
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