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The Bloomers list
Amelia Bloomer on May 26
but note that this post only includes people who have “things” named for them, not buildings unless they are very significant like the Tates, and definitely not streets or we would be Indexing most of the A-Z of street-maps world-wide
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville in full bloom on Oct 26
General Burnside could use a bloomin' haircut on May 23
George Eastman, with Kodak on July 12
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit is pre-empted by Sanctorius on Feb 22; born on May 14 (though some say it was the 24th); converts to Celsius on Nov 27; and is expurgated from Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451“ on Dec 6
Leonhart Fuchs trails from very thin vines on Oct 26
Richard Jordan Gatling, firing round after round on Nov 4; the patenting of the gun is on Dec 5
Joseph Aloysius Hansom is making his way slowly through the traffic on Oct 26
Charles Mackintosh is dressed for rain on June 17 (what a shame John Hetherington called his a "top hat" and not a "Hetherington" - see January 15)
Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov, blown up into a cocktail on Aug 23
John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, lunching on Nov 3
Joel Robert Poinsett is flowering nicely on Oct 26
No, changed my mind, I shall boycott all of them (which is why you won’t find him on any date, but only here, and will have to look him up for yourself: Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott the full name)
In addition, the "Dorothy Parker wasp", which has a particularly sharp sting, the "Melville Whale", a mythical creature much pursued by tearful blubberers but not yet actually handkerchiefed, and "the Attenborough CGI", are jestingly posited on Oct 26
And I could of course include links for critic Harold Bloom, and James Joyce’s Leopold and Molly – but that would constitute a bloomer
http://theargamanpress.com/
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