Price Club (what is now Costco) was founded by Sol Price
> Price Club (what is now Costco)
Price Club and Costco were competitors that merged.
Things Unexpectedly Named After People
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#242I find this post and comments to be surprisingly delightful. I'll aggregate the scattered gems in the comments here: - Sideburns : Named after the American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside. - Heaviside function (a mathematical step function) : named after Oliver Heaviside - The Children's python (animal) : Named after John George Children. - Snowflake, AZ : Named after Erastus Snow and William Jordon Flake. - Lake…
There is also a King Street in London's Hammersmith. The surprising bit is that, in a city full of places named after various monarch, it was named after bishop John King.
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#243I find this post and comments to be surprisingly delightful. I'll aggregate the scattered gems in the comments here: - Sideburns : Named after the American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside. - Heaviside function (a mathematical step function) : named after Oliver Heaviside - The Children's python (animal) : Named after John George Children. - Snowflake, AZ : Named after Erastus Snow and William Jordon Flake. - Lake…
French's mustard -> Robert Timothy French.
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#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're examples of someone being nicknamed off of their last name instead of their first name? How so? Caesar isn't even a last name.
> They're examples of someone being nicknamed off of their last name instead of their first name? McDonald's, Hardee's. > Caesar isn't even a last name. Worked out fine for Julius.
You're going to have to elaborate. What nickname do you see in "McDonald's" or "Hardee's"? What do you mean by "worked out fine for Julius"? You are aware that Julius Caesar's surname was "Julius", right?
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#245I find this post and comments to be surprisingly delightful. I'll aggregate the scattered gems in the comments here: - Sideburns : Named after the American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside. - Heaviside function (a mathematical step function) : named after Oliver Heaviside - The Children's python (animal) : Named after John George Children. - Snowflake, AZ : Named after Erastus Snow and William Jordon Flake. - Lake…
Sadly, I can't edit the comment anymore. Here are a few more. - German Chocolate Cake - Named after the English-American chocolate maker Samuel German. - Baker's Chocolate (popular American brand of baking chocolate) - Named after Dr. William Baker - Loop subdivision (CG term) - Named after its inventor Charles Loop. - French Hill (neighborhood in Jerusalem) - Named after British general John French. (Disputed) - Mob…
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#246I find this post and comments to be surprisingly delightful. I'll aggregate the scattered gems in the comments here: - Sideburns : Named after the American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside. - Heaviside function (a mathematical step function) : named after Oliver Heaviside - The Children's python (animal) : Named after John George Children. - Snowflake, AZ : Named after Erastus Snow and William Jordon Flake. - Lake…
Sadly, I can't edit the comment anymore. Here are a few more. - German Chocolate Cake - Named after the English-American chocolate maker Samuel German. - Baker's Chocolate (popular American brand of baking chocolate) - Named after Dr. William Baker - Loop subdivision (CG term) - Named after its inventor Charles Loop. - French Hill (neighborhood in Jerusalem) - Named after British general John French. (Disputed) - Mob…
Another food item:
– Caesar salad — named after Caesar Cardini, a restauranteur in San Diego and Tijuana [1]
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#247Re: Things Unexpectedly Named After People
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sadly, I can't edit the comment anymore. Here are a few more. - German Chocolate Cake - Named after the English-American chocolate maker Samuel German. - Baker's Chocolate (popular American brand of baking chocolate) - Named after Dr. William Baker - Loop subdivision (CG term) - Named after its inventor Charles Loop. - French Hill (neighborhood in Jerusalem) - Named after British general John French. (Disputed) - Mob…
Another food item: – Caesar salad — named after Caesar Cardini, a restauranteur in San Diego and Tijuana [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_salad
I don't think it's unexpectedly named after a person, but it may qualify as named after an unexpected person.
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#249Current Day Turkey – Used to be called Constantinople, named after Constantine. Originally named Byzantium after Byzas from Megara.
I think you might be talking about Istanbul
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#250Ashley Pond in Los Alamos, NM is a pond named after a man named Ashley Pond. It might be more correctly called Ashley Pond pond?
There is a long list of tautological place names, most often where multiple languates are ised in the name. "Rio Grande River" means "Big River River" ( rio being river and grande big). "Kill" is Dutch for creek (e.g., Fishkill). "Avon" is Celtic (Gaelic, Irish, Welch) for river (River Avon). "Hatchie" is Choctaw for river (Loosahatchie River) "Mississippi" is Anishinaabe for "big river". Similarly Mekong, Cuyahoga,…
The best example of this is Torpenhow Hill in Cumbria, England. Torr, penn, and howe all mean “hill” in different languages.