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Germany Issues Stamp
 

PRESS RELEASE                                     For Immediate Release          

Contact: Mr. Rainer Brehm; 202 371 9696; vip@theamericas.org 

 

Germany Issued Stamp in 2007 to Commemorate

Martin Waldseemüller and America’s Birthday in 1507;

United States and Latin American countries should do same

Washington, DC, October 15, 2007. The German government issued a stamp on April 17, 2007 to commemorate the German cartographer, Martin Waldseemüller, as the person who first named America in the World Map he produced in 1507, 500 years ago. Below is a copy of said stamp.

The President/Founder, Victor Pinzon, of Americas Global Foundation and The Americas Encounter -500 Years ® 1507-2007 congratulates Germany for their gracious decision to allow the official sale and transfer of their National Registry –the 1507 Martin Waldseemüller’s World Map- to the Government of the United States; and for issuing the commemorative stamp. Pinzon requests that the United States Postmaster General and each of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean do the same and issue a Commemorative Stamp of the naming of America.

The map was printed on 12 panels which were to be assembled into a single map 8' by 4'6".

The name "AMERICA" appears in the lower, left-hand panel on the stamp, in an area of today’s Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina.

Americas Global Foundation (AGF) has the Distinctive Pleasure

To Specially Invite You as a Stakeholder

To the Launching Event of

The Americas Encounter -500 Years® 1507-2007

Press Conference

 When:              December 13, 2007

 Hour:                3:00 PM to 5:30 PM

 Where:             Rayburn House Building, Gold Room 2168 US Congress

"Bringing Together The People of the Americas"

 "Helping to Make a Better World for Us All!!"

Commemorating

America's 500^th Birthday (1507 – 2007)

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