Monday, January 23, 2017
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Did you ever wonder how products and places got their names? I've included some in today's issue that I thought were interesting. I never knew any of these!
Enjoy!
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work."
HINT: (428/427 or 424/423 BCE-348/347 BCE), was a philosopher, as well as mathematician, in Classical Greece.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
In 1953, the Rocket Chemical Company began developing a rust-prevention solvent called WD-40 for the aerospace industry. The name WD-40 indicates what the product does (water displacement) and how many attempts it took to perfect it.
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Moby Dick was the favorite book of one of the three founders of the coffee empire Starbucks. He wanted to name the company after the story's fabled ship Pequod, but he and his partners reconsidered and settled instead on the name of the first mate, Starbuck.
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Don and Doris Fisher opened their first GAP store in 1969 to meet the unique clothing demands of customers between childhood and adulthood, identified and popularized then as "the generation gap."
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In 1971, the founders of Nike in Beaverton, Oregon, were searching for a catchy company name. Designer Jeff Johnson suggested Nike, the name of the Greek goddess of victory.
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Eugene the Jeep, a character in a 1936 Popeye comic strip, was actually a dog that could walk through walls, climb trees, and fly. When U.S. soldiers were given a new all-terrain vehicle in the early 1940s, they were so impressed that they may have named it after the superdog.
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The name Shell Oil was appropriated by Marcus Samuel, one of the company's founders. His father ran a London retail outlet called the Shell Shop, where he sold bags decorated with seashells. This grew into an import-export business, which diversified into a business that imported oil and kerosene.
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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
Wheresoever I may be,
Every man must follow me;
He must go where I may lead,
Though it be to change his creed.
Though I vary in my size,
I am still beneath your eyes;
and though you may go astray,
I must ever lead the way.
Every creature in the land,
Has me close at his command,
For I lead to things unseen,
By my properties so keen.
What am I?
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work."
ANSWER: Plato.