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CLOSED ***Baker's Dozen - Anything named after a person Part 4


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I don't know if this is a good idea or not, but I'm going to continue the previous BD. So we now have anything named after a person, PART 4 ... MWA-HA-HA-HA!

The results for far, from parts 1 through 3:

1. Alzheimer's Disease - Dr Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915)
2. Obama Care - President Obama
3. Occam's razor - William of Occam
4. The Richter Scale - Dr Charles Richter (1900-1985)
5. Rubik’s Cube - Erno Rubik
6. Zamboni - Frank J. Zamboni
7. The Nobel Prize - Alfred Nobel
8. General Tso's chicken - Zuo Zongtang
9. Halley' Comet - Edmund Halley (1656-1741)
10. Parkinson's Disease - James Parkinson
11. Chekov's Gun - Anton Chekhov
12. Molotov Cocktail - Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986)
13. Arnold Palmer (Iced Tea & Lemonade) – Arnold Palmer
1. Lutheranism - Martin Luther
2. Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS) - Lou Gehrig
3. Christianity - Jesus Christ
4. Heimlich maneuver - American doctor Henry Heimlich
5. Braille - Louis Braille
6. Tesla Coil - Nikola Tesla
7. Fahrenheit - Daniel Fahrenheit
8. Shirley Temple (drink) - Shirley Temple
9. Venn Diagram - John Venn
10. The Pythagorean theorem - Pythagoras
11. Monroe Doctrine - James Monroe
12. Hubble Space Telescope - Edwin Hubble
13. Pasteurization - Louis Pasteur
1. Teddy Bear - Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
2. Asperger syndrome - Dr Hans Asperger
3. The Gatling Gun - Richard Jordan Gatling
4. The Americas (North, South & Central America) - Amerigo Vespucci
5. Cape Ann (Massachusetts) - Anne of Denmark, mother of Charles I
6. Kalshnakov Rifle - Mikhail Kalashnikov
7. Addison's Disease - Dr. Thomas Addison
8. Sully (2016) Chesley sullenberger
9. Taylorism -- a system of industrial workflow management, one of the foundations of modern mass production -- named after Frederick W. Taylor
10. Celsius temperature scale - Anders Celsius
11. Tsiolkovsky rocket equation -- ideal relationship between delta-vee, mass, and rocket fuel efficiency -- named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
12. Hudson River (New York) and Hudson Bay (Canada) - Henry Hudson
13. Lambert's Problem -- He drinks. ... No, it's a basic problem in orbital mechanics, how to get from point X at time A to point Y at time B; cannot be solved with a direct analytical solution -- named after Johann Heinrich Lambert

And now, part 4

1. Navi -- Alternate name for the star Gamma Cassiopeiae. Named for astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom ("Navi" is "Ivan" backwards). Named BY astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom, who put the label on NASA's celestial navigation training charts as a prank. After Grissom's death in the Apollo 1 fire, NASA kept the name on their charts as an informal memorial, and it passed outward to the scientific community and beyond. Although not the official IAU name, "Navi" has long been in common use.

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1. Navi -- Alternate name for the star Gamma Cassiopeiae. Named for astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom
2. Strait of Magellan - Portuguese explorer

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Thanks for abbreviating my description. I thought the information was interesting enough to pass on, but it would have been cumbersome to keep it in the list!

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1. Navi -- Alternate name for the star Gamma Cassiopeiae. Named for astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom
2. Strait of Magellan - Portuguese explorer
3. Mount Marilyn -- Mountain on the Moon named after Marilyn Lovell by her husband, Jim Lovell (astronaut on Apollos 8 and 13)

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That's what Lovell did on his honeymoon

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1. Navi -- Alternate name for the star Gamma Cassiopeiae. Named for astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom
2. Strait of Magellan - Portuguese explorer
3. Mount Marilyn -- Mountain on the Moon named after Marilyn Lovell by her husband, Jim Lovell (astronaut on Apollos 8 and 13)
4.. Huntington's Disease - Dr George Huntington

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I changed Magellan from Spanish to Portuguese because although it was a Spanish expedition, Magellan was Portuguese

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1. Navi -- Alternate name for the star Gamma Cassiopeiae. Named for astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom
2. Strait of Magellan - Portuguese explorer
3. Mount Marilyn -- Mountain on the Moon named after Marilyn Lovell by her husband, Jim Lovell (astronaut on Apollos 8 and 13)
4.. Huntington's Disease - Dr George Huntington
5. Washington, D.C. - George Washington

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1. Navi -- Alternate name for the star Gamma Cassiopeiae. Named for astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom
2. Strait of Magellan - Portuguese explorer
3. Mount Marilyn -- Mountain on the Moon named after Marilyn Lovell by her husband, Jim Lovell (astronaut on Apollos 8 and 13)
4.. Huntington's Disease - Dr George Huntington
5. Washington, D.C. - George Washington
6. Griffith Observatory (Los Angeles) - Griffith J. Griffith

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1. Navi -- Alternate name for the star Gamma Cassiopeiae. Named for astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom
2. Strait of Magellan - Portuguese explorer
3. Mount Marilyn -- Mountain on the Moon named after Marilyn Lovell by her husband, Jim Lovell (astronaut on Apollos 8 and 13)
4.. Huntington's Disease - Dr George Huntington
5. Washington, D.C. - George Washington
6. Griffith Observatory (Los Angeles) - Griffith J. Griffith
7. Bright's disease - Dr Richard Bright

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> 7. Bright's disease - Dr Richard Bright

Didn't he play Al Neri in The Godfather?

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i would bet they are not one and the same

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I HAVENT SEEN ANY OF THESE MOVIES!🤔


WELL,MAYBE I SAW MOUNT MARILYN.🤫

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1. Navi -- Alternate name for the star Gamma Cassiopeiae. Named for astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom
2. Strait of Magellan - Portuguese explorer
3. Mount Marilyn -- Mountain on the Moon named after Marilyn Lovell by her husband, Jim Lovell (astronaut on Apollos 8 and 13)
4.. Huntington's Disease - Dr George Huntington
5. Washington, D.C. - George Washington
6. Griffith Observatory (Los Angeles) - Griffith J. Griffith
7. Bright's disease - Dr Richard Bright
8. "de Havilland Law" -- common name for the published opinion in De Havilland v. Warner Bros. Pictures, named after the plaintiff, Olivia de Havilland. The ruling greatly reduced the power of the "studio system."

And I'm outta here for the evening. If you get to #13 before tomorrow don't wait for me to pass the baton.

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