China. The Centre of the World??

A rarely seen 400-year-old map that identified Florida as “the Land of Flowers” and put China at the centre of the world went on display Tuesday at the Library of Congress.

Rest of the story here

~ by yukonchase on January 13, 2010.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

 
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.