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19th century German nobleman, travel blogger and expert on modern landscape Gardening Fürst Pückler has a type of ice cream named for him though (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wait until you learn about where the name of the month of July came from.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Or August.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or Saladuary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Septober

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's not named after Julius Cesar, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your spelling of Cesar betrays french autocorrect, yet your name German/Alpine. So I'm guessing Swiss?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Poepleguessr

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, but after his adopted son

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Who coincidentally liked to call himself "Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus" later in his life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Subtility didn't run deep in this family.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

"Subtlety is my middle name. And also my first and last name in case they miss the point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Julia Roberts??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Julie Andrews, close though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I wasn't aware you could get a diploma in yodelling