Stump the German

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(09-07-2019 05:19 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Kudos Rob, well done! I summarize a bit from Wiki:

In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a new Latin edition of Ptolemy's treatise on geography, the first to include the recent discoveries, so far called the" New World", or the "Fourth Part of the World". The intro reads (in Latin):
"There is a fourth quarter of the world which Amerigo Vespucci has discovered..., and I do not see why anyone should justifiably forbid it to be called Amerie, as if 'Americus' Land', or America, from its discoverer Americus, a man of perceptive character; since both Europa and Asia have received their names from women."
In 1513, Waldseemüller appears to have had second thoughts about the name, probably due to contemporary protests about Vespucci’s role in the discovery and naming of America. He corrected the error in a later edition, where the continent is labelled" Terra Incognita" (unknown land), and South America "Terra Nova", but the name America had now already been established.

A single copy of the map survives, presently housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and here it is:
https://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/waldexh.html

Here comes the prize for all who joined to figure this one - and thanks much for your "fair play" (!):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P_1N6_O254g

What a great prize, Eva. It has been many a year since I have listened to the New World Symphony, and I noticed that this was done in 1966 (the year after I graduated college). In my sophomore year, I was forced into taking Music Appreciation -- and hated it instead of appreciating it!

I had been a piano and organ student since age ten and a church organist since age 12, so I really did enjoy music of all kinds. And, I was a product of the 1950s and 60s; what was there to dislike about music? Answer: the professor who taught that class and thought he was another Beethoven and gave a final exam where he dropped the phonograph needle anywhere on that 33 and 1/3 vinyl, played about 10 seconds, and then told us to write the answer as to what piece we had just heard!

Let's just say that we all had a hard time with that exam. However, a snippet from New World Symphony was one piece that I could identify -- along with a snippet from Aaron Copeland's Painted Desert. I did get some others right as well as a B in the class, but that and geography stand out as my least favorite subjects in college (even above P.E.). And, of course, your trivia question involved geography. I was doomed from the start.