Not really, as there are still thermometers with mercury made and used, usually in labs as they provide more accurate results. So technically the question is correct.
And there's not really another place to "commonly" find it (I don't think mercury switches are that common anymore, certainly rarer than mercury thermometers).
What do you mean when you say Vespucci is the namesake of "two continents"? America is just one continent, South, Central, North and Caribbean are regions (yes, not two, four!).
North America and South America are considered two separate continents. North America extends from Canada south to Panama, and includes the countries in the Carribean Sea.
South America extends south from Venezuela and Columbia to Chile and Argentina.
Eurasia is also shorter to write than Europe and Asia, but we still consider them two continents. (At least on a map North and South America actually look like two separate land masses connected by a thin thread.) America is the shortened name of the United States of America which is in North America, just as are Canada, Mexico, Central America, and several Caribbean islands. We call ourselves Americans rather than United Statesmen, just as people in Beijing are called Chinese rather than Peoples Republicans, or people from Micronesia are Micronesian rather than Federated Statesmen.
Funny though, for the Spanish speaking community "América" is a single continent from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, while "Sudamérica", "Centroamérica" and "Norteamérica" are simply divisions of it.
I don't know that the entire Spanish community considers the Americas to be one large continent, but it is definitely the prevailing view in South America in my experience. But I think the more common view globally is to consider North and South America two separate continents.
As far as I know, the vast majority of Europe also considers America to be one continent, and many languages actually have more accurate terms to specifically designated people from the USA. In French, we call them "étasuniens" (from Etats-Unis = United States), in German, we say "US-Amerikaner", etc. Geography is largely conventional, so one answer is not really better than the other.
I would however find it pretty laughable if citizens of Luxembourg or Czechia suddenly called themselves "Europeans" and insisted everyone else is just "Northern European" or "Southern European".
Amerigo Vespucci is debated as the namesake of the Americas due to only royals having their first names given to landmasses or places, it is always the second name. It is argued that in fact the Americas are named after a chap called George Americ, who was Welsh.
Thank you for the information which I'd never heard before. After researching it, I discovered there are many, many other theories about the name, too, including the name of a Native American tribe, a combination of Norse words giving credit to the Viking landings, the name of a mountain range in South America, an African phrase introduced into the Mayan and Aztec cultures, a Hungarian word, even another Welshman named Richard Amerike/Ameryk. Many different cultures try to take credit for the name, but as this article says, http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/america.html - "to hear such echoes in the name of our hemisphere is to hear ourselves."
Antietam was the deadliest single day in the war, with 5,389 deaths between the two sides, but Gettysburg lasted for three full days and had an estimated total of nearly 8,000 deaths.
I don't understand why it didn't take "Gettysburg" rather than Battle of...
In addition, if I am not mistaken, Antietam was the bloodiest/deadliest battle. Gettysburg is more famous because it changed the tide of the war and the address, but I believe more people were killed/wounded at Antietam.
I did. This is what came up. "Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed 'America', deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name."
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I typed amerigo then tried.several spellings of vespuccio amerigo... I never knew the names were the other way around. I kind of think amerigo should be accepted, cause that is the name america is named after
theres something wrong with this , i typed quaran and a white flag and it didn't enter it.. I don't know if it's a problem with this site or my computer but this was interesting
Avengers: End Game recently surpassed Avatar as the highest grossing movie of all time, so the James Cameron question might need to be reworded or something
Every list I'm aware of lists Avatar (2.92 billion USD) on #1, Avengers: Endgame (2.80 billion USD) on #2, Avatar: Way of Water (2.32 billion USD) on #3 and Titanic (2.26 billion USD) on #4.
The question is correct, I'm just confused about the comments telling Endgame surpassed Avatar.
South America extends south from Venezuela and Columbia to Chile and Argentina.
A gaucho visits Paris and says he's an American. They ask him from what part? He says Buenos Aires. They laugh-- you're not American.
And when Neil Diamond sings, "Coming to America" he's not talking about arriving in Honduras.
And when I go to my homeland in Denmark, I say "Jeg er Amerikan," and Danes don't wonder if I'm Peruvian.
The average score is 13."
Damn.
In addition, if I am not mistaken, Antietam was the bloodiest/deadliest battle. Gettysburg is more famous because it changed the tide of the war and the address, but I believe more people were killed/wounded at Antietam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_by_casualties
island of Hispaniola but, being geographically challenged, mistook it
for India) on the one hand, while denying with equal fervor that that same America is named for Amerigo Vespucci. If the people of the
Caribbean can put up with the misnomer "West Indian", the rest of
us can put up with America being the namesake of Amerigo Vespucci.
The question is correct, I'm just confused about the comments telling Endgame surpassed Avatar.