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Eponyms

The origins of various terms that either gained their nomenclature from being named for actual people or are generally believed to have gained their names in that fashion.

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Green bullet The protocol followed by some stores when a child is reported missing called "Code Adam" after 6-year-old Adam Walsh, who was abducted and murdered in 1981.

Red bullet Coffee is sometimes referred to as a "cup of joe" because of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels.

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