Vespucci didn't discover America, he just wrote about it while he was on a ship that sailed in the general area.
The viking who first found our beloved continent was Lief Erickson. However, vikings do not write our history textbooks so that will be continually credited to Mr. Columbus-- or if you want to use his real, non-anglicized name, Cristobal Colon with an accent on the second O.
Or as John Stewart and the Daily Show people once described it on a timeline in their book, "1492: America discovers white people".
Updated On: 6/20/06 at 10:57 PM