Words Seldom Seen: Provenance

An early map showing California as an island. This piece of “fake news” was accepted wisdom for two centuries. This map is now in the collection of the School of Trans Border Studies at Arizona State


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  1. Its a little know fact that when they named Providence RI they accidentally misspelled it. I am pretty certain of this (although I may be wrong)

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