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Names Live On as Words From Forgotten Fame
A survey of how famous names become common words and phrases. It recounts Annie Oakley, Black Maria, bloomers, pompadour, booz e, bowdlerize, Bowie knife, Boycott, Brodie, Buncombe, Bunsen burner, Daguerre, Diesel, Gerry, gerrymander, Gatling, Gladstone and other figures whose names became everyday terms through history and legend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marta Lee
Boston
Maria
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Seneca Falls
N. Y
Dexter C. Bloomer
Lily
Elizabeth Smith Miller
Gerrit Smith
New York
Waterloo
Germany
United States
John Bone
Chippewa County
Michigan
Republic
E.G. Booz
Woodbury
N. J
Booz
Thomas Bowdler
James Bowie
The
Alamo
Charles Cunningham Boycott
Lord Erne
Connemara
Ireland
Bright
Richard Bright
Queen Victoria
Steve Brodie
Brooklyn Bridge
East River
Brodie
Edward Buncombe
Germantown
Philadelphia
Buncombe County
North Carolina
Felix Walker
Congress
Walker
Buncombe
Bunsen
Chemical Laboratories
George Wilhelm Bunsen
James Thomas Bridenell
Seventh Earl of Cardigan
Light Brigade
Louis Jacques Daguerre
Rudolph Diesel
Paris
Henry VII
England
John Due
Gerry
Essex County
Boston Sentinel
Gilibert Stuart
Sentinel
Guilter
Gladstone
William’ E. Gladstone
Western
Union
Ampere
Annie Oakleys
Bessemer Steel Black Maria
Bloomers Blucher
Buncombe Or Bunk
Bunsen Burner
Cardigan
Daguerreotype
Galvanize
Lavalliere Pompadour