The James Logan Courier

LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!

MISCELLANEOUS
Attn. Advanced Placement Students: You must pay for the AP exams you will be taking in May by March 20. The fee is $86 per exam. See Sarah Muse in the Main Administration Building at break, lunchtime and after school.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

The founder of an organization dedicated to ending the ongoing genocide in Darfur will speak to students Wednesday at James Logan High School.

Mark Hanis, founder and executive director of the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net), will speak to students about the group’s efforts in Darfur, Sudan, where more than 400,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million have been displaced . His talk will be in the Little Theater, starting at 2:30 p.m.

From wikipedia:
Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages which explored the east coast of South America between 1499 and 1502. On the first of these voyages he discovered that South America extended much further south than believed by other European explorers crossing the Atlantic, who thought they were reaching Asia (the Indies). Vespucci's voyages became widely known in Europe after two accounts attributed to him were published between 1502 and 1504. In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map on which he named the new continent America after Vespucci's first name, Amerigo. In an accompanying book, Waldseemüller published one of the Vespucci accounts, which led to criticism that Vespucci was trying to usurp Christopher Columbus' glory. However, the rediscovery in the 18th century of other letters by Vespucci, primarily the Soderini Letter, has led to the view that the early published accounts were fabrications, not by Vespucci, but by others. Waldseemüller may have suspected the self promoting tendencies of Vespucci even in his own time as later publications replaced America with Terra Incognita.

Read more about Amerigo Vespucci in the book Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick A. Ober, available at Project Gutenberg.