Cathay started reciting the names of the 12 divisions into which, according to Nasir al-Din, the "Cathayans" were dividing the day – and Martini, who of course knew no Persian, was able to continue the list. The names of the 24 solar terms matched as well. The story, soon published by Martini in the "Additamentum" to his Atlas of China, seemed to have finally convinced most European scholars that China and Cathay were the same. Even then, some people still viewed Cathay as distinct from China, as did John Milton in the 11th Book of his "Paradise Lost" (1667). In 1939,
Cathay Wagantall Cathay Wagantall Cathay Wagantall, (née Cathay Caswell; born July 3, 1956) in Regina, Saskatchewan is a Canadian parliamentarian, businesswoman, and administrator who was elected to be the Member of Parliament for Yorkton-Melville in the House of Commons of Canada during the 2015 Canadian federal election. She is the Deputy Official Opposition Shadow Minister for Veterans Affairs. She is also, the Chairman of the Canadian National Prayer Breakfast. Born on July 3, 1956 in the Queen City – Regina, Saskatchewan – Cathay Wagantall was raised there until her parents and their six children moved to the small town of Esterhazy in