Ajit Pai @AjitPai
Fascinating story about how letters exchanged among Venetian brothers in the 14th century led mapmakers to depict an apocryphal island near Greenland for hundreds of years thereafter. @librarycongress: https://t.co/SD5lBAPMxQ https://t.co/gpWYJqmPGU — PolitiTweet.org
John Overholt @john_overholt
A 14th century hoax led to the nonexistent island of Frisland appearing on maps as late as the 18th century.… https://t.co/xqYNJwPiFH