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A New Dictionary of Eponyms offers detailed descriptions of the history of countless eponyms, from the origins of the word bikini to the origins of that cafeteria staple, the Salisbury steak.
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according to Hoyle
Achilles’ heel
Alice in Wonderland
Alzheimers disease
Amazon
America
ampère
Annie Oakley
Archimedes principle
argyle
atlas
August
babbitt
bacchanalian
Baedeker
bakelite
Barmecide
Barnum
baroque
Bartlett pear
Bartletts Quotations
Beau Brummel
beef
begonia
berserk
bertillonage
Bessemer process
Big Ben
Big Bertha
bikini
Binet-Simon tests
Bloomers
Bluebeard
Bluestockings
Blurb
bobby
Bogus
bologna
boniface
booze
Borgia
Boswell
bougainvillaea
boulangism
Bowdler
Bowie knife
boycott
braille
Brill
Brodie
brougham
Buddhism
Buffalo Bill
Bunsen burner
Burnside
Caesar
Calamity Jane
candy
cant
cardigan
Cartesian philosophy
casanova
Cassandra
Catherine wheel