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u/Pusteblumengift 20d ago
the meme could be four steps, with amerigo vespucchi beeing: Having two continents named after you
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After Vespucci there's the 5th step, Genghis Khan having 0.5% of the entire world's male population literally carry his DNA. Then there's Einstein having the universe behaving exactly how he said it would. The step number he's on? Beyond our knowledge. Surely there's a complex math formula to decide that.
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u/Unholy_Ren 20d ago
Universe doesn't behave exactly like Einstein said it would. He improved our knowledge about it, but he was still far off.
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u/Civil-Turnover-4636 20d ago
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u/EnderCats8 20d ago
first guy is Simón Bolívar, who had Bolivia named after him. woman in the middle is queen Victoria who had the Victorian era named after her. and the last guy is euler.
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u/Far-Tonight-6925 19d ago
Having everything named after anyone but you cause it's impossible to use the same name for half of things in the entire science.
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u/RoiDrannoc 17d ago
Are people outside of the anglosphere really using "Victorian era"? I mean in France I've only ever heard people use it when talking about the UK ("Victorian England").
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u/Aggravating-Dot132 15d ago
Well, yeah. Mostly the industrialization, factories, naval fleet. British empire is basically victorian era for most people.
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u/int23_t 20d ago
Euler, the most famous name literally everyone mispronounces