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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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[–] Diplomjodler3 28 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Julia Roberts??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Julie Andrews, close though

[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Or August.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Or Saladuary

[–] thermal_shock 1 points 1 hour ago

Septober

[–] Diplomjodler3 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

That's not named after Julius Cesar, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 minutes ago

Poepleguessr

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

No, but after his adopted son

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Subtility didn't run deep in this family.