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America is derived from the name of an explorer who closely followed Columbus. He was the first to recognize that he wasn't in the eat indies (as Columbus thought) but that he had found a totally new world - which now bears his name.

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The United States U.S.A. The land of the free and the home of the brave (from the National Anthem, F.S. Key)

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