My favorite of these are definitely MySQL (as mentioned in the article) and French drains, which, as I learned when we had one installed in my basement last year, are named after an American...
My favorite of these are definitely MySQL (as mentioned in the article) and French drains, which, as I learned when we had one installed in my basement last year, are named after an American called Henry French, who popularized them in the US in the 1800s.
Poubelle - frenchvname for trash bin Adidas - Adolf "Adi" Dassler; who had a shoe factory with his brother Rudolf but after they got into conflict, Rudolf created Puma
My favourite one is that the saxophone is named after it's inventor, Adolphe Sax
My favorite of these are definitely MySQL (as mentioned in the article) and French drains, which, as I learned when we had one installed in my basement last year, are named after an American called Henry French, who popularized them in the US in the 1800s.
Poubelle - frenchvname for trash bin
Adidas - Adolf "Adi" Dassler; who had a shoe factory with his brother Rudolf but after they got into conflict, Rudolf created Puma
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