What did the Great Map cover? Why was it important?

In italy, the distance between milan in the north and palermo, sicily, in the south is about 550 miles. in the united states, the distance betweenboston, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, is about 900 miles. do you think the american revolutionaries of 1776 in the 13 colonies faced some of the same challenges as the patriots who struggled for italian unity in the 1860s?  

Not among the fundamental principles of romans catholicism.

What is implied when the author states that dale eaton "didn't buy the lot for the usual reasons"?