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5. Sideburns

Ambrose Everett Burnside a Union Army general in the AmericanCivil War and later politician, Burnside was well known and well liked.
He wasn’t known as a good general, often getting his forces in trouble, but people forgave him because of his freaky facial hair.
Two burly muttonchops grew dangerously long and connected to a handlebar moustache. Originally they became known as burnsides, but over time, the syllables were switched around.

6. Saxophone

The musical instrument was invented by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian instrument maker. His father, Charles Joseph (1791-1865) invented the less popular saxhorn

7. Cardigan

Cardigan was named after Thomas Brudnell who was a General in the Crimean War. His troop were the first to wear such garments

8. Diesel Engine

The Diesel engine was named after its inventor identified as Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel who was a French-born German engineer.

9. Nicotine

This name for the “poisonous addictive chemical in tobacco smoke” is derived from Jean Nicot, a French diplomat, scholar, and lexicographer who introduced tobacco to France from Portugal where he served as French ambassador in the mid-16th century.
Nicot believed tobacco had medical properties and actively advocated its use in the French society, particularly among the French elite. He became wildly popular in France in his time as a result of the acceptance of tobacco by the French nobility. The tobacco plant nicotiana is also named after him.

10. Braille

Braille is a point system of writing in which patters of raised dots represents letters and numerals. It is a very usefully tool for the blind as it helps them read.
The word is derived from Louis Braille, a French educator and musician who became blind when he was only three years old and who later went on to invent a system of writing and printing that is used all over the world by the blind.

Do you know any other item that should be on the list? Please let us know in the comment section below.

Source: http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/09/16/10-everyday-items-you-wont-believe-were-named-after-people/#sthash.OY6lKQ1q.dpuf

Dis Guy: who's heard of bubbles magazine??

most of these 'on the cover of....magazine' people never heard of it!

i am guessing thats the idea. So that people will know bout d mags nd prolly start buyin em

Yeah seriously

Infoay: Like Seriously?

This puts every fake friend to shame

Big_Lebowski: Nonsense. Hepatitis virus affects the liver and not the immune system. It takes at least 10years to begin to have organ failure. Aids with out treatment will kill you within 6 months to 5yrs.

All these useless lasu doctors sef

My thought exactly

Finally the police came and what they could say was "we can't carry him the way he is" and they went away.

Seriously?

While doing that, a girl shouted "he is my brother" repeatedly. The soldier dashed off to her, flogged her with the fan-belt he was holding, kicked her feet off the ground and beat her till she took off.

Onlookers chased her, caught her and handed her to the soldiers that she might be a spy.

Which kind spy?

Zilch, i have trust issues when it comes to the internet

the same way i treat people that say negative things about me. i totally ignore. i know, not the best, but that is my method. i prefer not to dignify their negative comment with a response

Which respect again? Honestly *whispers* I do not like any nollywood actor/actress, so its nothing personal. Even the mercy johnson, i dont like either. Infact, i dont know why i am even talking here. My boredom must have reached rock bottom

seunfly: 1) He was busy fighting 4 oga jona to become d president

May God bless your generation. WS tries to do what is right. At least thats the way i see it. It is not like he hates Jonathan or anything.

Has she done anything crucifyable? No, nobody has.

Is she seeking attention? definately yes, every celebrity seeks attention

Is she beautiful? i dont care, i couldnt care less about how i look, talk more of tonto dikeh

Is she free as a bird? she could turn to a toad for all i care.

I dont hate TD. i just ................. Save my breath for something usefull

LFJ: Prof. WS cannot do everything, you have equal right and freedom of speech to make your own press release where the professor failed u.

Leave this people, na soyinka them wan attack now? OP park well make i see road abeg

I dont know what is happening, so i am going to read through your previous post and judge the case.

*Reads previous post*

the truth is that first of all(go down low), you are giving the guy way too much attention that he deserves. Second of all most of these guy doing business in Nigeria are really rude, c-o-cky and arroant, sometimes it makes me want to puke. no offense to the e-topup guy. i am not perfect, but i have worked with some of these guys and they feel, because its online, or you are buying something small, you are not important. it dosent work that way

etopup guy, my advice to you is this. remember(this is statistically proven) for every bad comment made about you on a forum, it takes about seven good ones to make you look good. i am not saying you should,have multiple accounts on nairaland or employ lapdogs, i am saying, do not give anybody the opportunity to say anything bad about you


thank god you are reading this now

TD, breathes attention, not oxygen. She would die without it. Everything she does screams of attention seeker. And i dont think why tonto dikeh should think i am referring to her here.

Thanks guys. I guess i am the l8est single guy on the scene *hurting* never loved her for her money tho. At least i now know the kind of person she is.

tellwisdom: Something dey worry you abi?? ...how much una papa get wey una dey disturb us with una mumu love life

And i am the one who liked your post

WackyJ1: Hmm what she said is not a light something. OP have you ever borrowed money from her or asked for financial help from her? if you have then this might have warranted it.
But personally i cannot take this, she is indirectly calling me a malicious person for wanting another person's parents dead for money, i would sit her down and talk to her, she should never repeat that statement again and if she doesn't want to see it like then then i would take a walk. no girl is worth this type of insult

Thank You

C'mon guys, i have always known nairaland to be a place where Nigerians help each other out. Dont let me down

sexkillz: [color=#000030]Taah. Comot there. Front gini? We need more background info. When and where and how and under what circumstances did you two meet? Detail your story. [/color]

We me 2010, we met in a friends place and the friend introduced us. Sexkillz, there is nothing special about the story except that line. sexkillz, if you wont take it to fp, then give me good advice.

I am starting to think maybe she was just joking. Even if she was, is it funny? Because it is not funny to me

Did not talk to her for about 30 hours (quite unusual), and she was not happy about it. We were just catching up. Nothing special

Mod, front page please. This happened this morning and i am about to break up with her. Please

I am dating this girl, and her parents are richer than mine. This conversation ensued between me and my girlfriend

*Middle of phone call*

Me: How are your parents

My Girlfriend: You don't care about my parent. In fact you are waiting for them to die

Me; How?

My Girlfriend: You want them to die so that you can inherit their empire.

Me: Goodbye *Ends Call*

Am i overreacting of my girl just called me a gold digger

I am starting to make excuses for her like, "it is kinda cute, she thinks we have a future together".

Please guys, help me out

Stil waiting for an explanation and an apology

Goldcon: Only one of my affected sites is working. One of them is opening on my BB phone but cant open on my Lappy. I dont understand. I have used different explorer. same thing.

i had this problem even before the downtime.

@op. Is it me or i deserve an apology from syskay? Who are you to apologise on behalf of syskay?

I was actualy thinking of using the example.net domain of my website on godaddy and just forget about syskay. Right, i'm having trust issues with nigeria hosting companies. @brandking, culd u keep us posted on ur dealings wit gigalayer? @gigalayer, talking about puting your money where your mouth is

How can i transfer when i cannot even access my cpanel?

Brand_new: I think it's better if you quit discussing another man's business and focus on rescuing yours. There are lots of other web host service providers you can transfer your website to and ListMasta is one of them.
*that's if you care enough for your web business*

is it possible to transfer to listmasta, like yesterday?

goldenimp: sent someone to there office in ibadan..learnt he was arrested by ICPC..taken to abuja..turned off his phones and shut down the websites..what do we do now?

that icpc story

My website is still not up. What are u guys telling your clients? Please, if any of ur sites comes back online culd u guys let me know. And d icpc story, i'm hoping its a joke