Saturday, October 22, 2016

What's in a name?

Back in the Middle Ages, in what is now referred to as the Caribbean, there was a island called San Juan, the capital of which was the town of Puerto Rico.  But in the middle of the 16th century, a map maker confused the name of the island with the name of its capital. and his mistake has never been corrected, so today we have the island of Puerto Rico with its capital San Juan.

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