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By the 14th century, it was well known that all roads led to Rome – or, as Chaucer put it, that “diverse pathes leden diverse folk the righte way to Rome”. But it would now seem that Chaucer and his readers were labouring under a misapprehension. As Oxford professor Josephine Quinn points out in her expansive new book, How the World Made the West, the roads leading to Rome in ancient times were, in literal terms, relatively few, for the city sat apart from the main trade routes. Some later emper

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For almost three decades, Alan Michelson has attended to place, histories, and futures, and the lived realities of Indigenous peoples in North America.

BREVARD HISTORY: Section of Abraham Ortelius' 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' Features Cape Canaveral in First True Modern Atlas

A section of a map from the 1584 edition of author Abraham Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theater of the World), Additamentum III" shows the name "C. de Cañareal" at the location of Cape Canaveral, Fla.