This Month's Picture Quiz
Can you name the character depicted below and where this design appears? (Hint: a certain Imperator bore this design - a historical emperor, of course)
From the Editors:
Thank you for reading the June edition of the Magazine. As you may have
noticed, we did not issue an edition for May.
Quite simply, we felt that it wasn't the best thing to have the
magazine become outdated after half a month, since traditionally, we
released the issues around the middle of each month. So, we decided to
release this edition a little later and call it the "June Edition."
That way, the issue can now enjoy a full month's time in its correct
month!
As with all editions of the
magazine, this edition could not have been possible without the support
of our contributors. If you have an article that you would like
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- Invictus and the Editors
AE Magazine, April Edition
Editors: Paul, Invictus, Rick Shumaker, Hugoestr
Contributing Writers: Poirot, K Lessner (Loknar), Maharbbal, Act of Oblivion, M. P. Benedict (Pikeshot), Emperor Barbarossa, Komnenos, Rider, Paul |
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Answer to Last month's Picture Quiz:
The "island of California" - one of the most famous cartographic errors in history.
The
map is French and dates from 1656. In 1510 Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo
wrote a novel: “..on the right hand of the Indies there is an ...and it
is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in
the manner of Amazons.” Hernan Cortez first heard of this reference in
1539 and sent two expeditions in search of the island, discovering the
Californian Peninsular. However in 1592 Juan de la Fuca reported a
passage at the north of the peninsular that connected to the Atlantic
Ocean. Later a Father, Antonio de la Ascension, sailed the Californian coast and wrote that it was an island.
In 1622 California made its first appearance on maps as an island and
this continued throughout he whole of the seventeenth century. In 1705
Jesuit missionary Father Eusebio proved for once and for all that
California was a peninsular by walking from New Mexico to California
and gradually maps began to portray is as a peninsular. However, its
appearance as an island continued to persisted until 1747, when
Ferdinand VII issued a formal decree declaring that California was a
peninsular. |