Message #47358

[Bianca]

Conservators at the Library of Congress screw down the map that
first used the name America as it is prepared for its encasement in
Washington, December 3, 2007. The 500-year-old map, created by
German monk Martin Waldseemuller, is the only known surviving
copy and was purchased for $10 million in 2003.

REUTERS/Jim Young