Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think you're getting the idea.
What is the idea? How are these different from e.g. erlang, elo or shrapnel - all featured on the page?
It ain’t! Don’t worry these are good!
Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)
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#122You might think Morgan Hill, California was named because of a prominent feature of the landscape. Nope, named after a guy named Morgan Hill. (And the hill you see in Morgan Hill, CA is actually named El Toro — the Spanish word for "lawnmower". Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here for one more night.)
What is the relationship between the word "toro" (bull in Spanish) and lawnmowers?
Re: Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)
#123The color “fuchsia” is named after a guy named Fuchs.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Main Street in San Francisco was named after Charles Main. I feel this might be a bit of a cheeky urban legend, or at the very least a coincidence. "Main st" has been used in western city's and towns for a lot longer than SF has been around.
It could (conceivably) be that "in San Francisco" is meant literally, and that in San Francisco it's true, even if not the case for other instances of "Main Street" elsewhere, however; a cursory web search leads me to think "urban legend" is by far the more likely. It's always been my understanding that "Main Street" either is currently, or was at some time nearer the town / city's beginning the main street that went…
It is literally true specifically for San Francisco. The street now named Main in San Francisco didn't exist for the first few decades after the city's founding and grid-laying (it was underwater, just off shore in San Francisco Bay!), and at no point has it been a street of any particular prominence.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think you're getting the idea.
What is the idea? How are these different from e.g. erlang, elo or shrapnel - all featured on the page?
"Unexpectedly named after people". Erlang seems to be short for for Ericsson Language, Elo is often misspelled ELO as if it stands for something. Shrapnel is less unexpected.
Re: Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)
#126The color “fuchsia” is named after a guy named Fuchs.
The name “Sienna” is named after a color called “Siena” *
* (Also a city and type of rock)
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#127A few German companies:
- Aldi (supermarket chain), founded by the Albrecht brothers, thus ALbrecht DIskont
- Adidas, founded by ADolf DASsler
- Mercedes-Benz, named by Emil Jellinek-Mercedes after his daughter Mercedes, initially with Daimler which then merged with Benz
- Audi, founded by August Horch. Initially founded as _A. Horch & Cie. Motorwagenwerke Zwickau_, he later lost the rights to the name "Horch". He named his new company "Audi", which is a translation of his name into Latin: in German, "horch" is the imperative for "horchen" (to listen), which maps to "audi" as the imperative for "audire" in Latin
And then there are a just a ton of companies named after their founders (Porsche, Bosch, Siemens, …) but I'm not sure if these count :)
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#128Haribo is named after it's founder and location: HAns RIegel, BOnn.
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#129The names of Airport Codes is truly interesting as well. Basically early airports were farms and fields, and thus the airport code reflected the original famrland owners' name.
There isa book on the history of names of all places in California, and similarly, the names of places are who was effectively the earliest documented land owner of that area, or something from the native tribes.
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#130About southern blot there is more: it's a method used to find a specific DNA sequence in a DNA sample, and was named after its creator. When a similar method was invented that applies to RNA, was of course named Southern. When the one for proteins was invented, was named Western.
> When a similar method was invented that applies to RNA, was of course named Southern.
I think you meant Northern :)
Also, there are Eastern blots for PTMs