Humboldt
David Pilling via pbs (Sat, 04 Jul 2020 09:41:29 PDT)
Hi Jim,
On 04/07/2020 17:13, James Waddick via pbs wrote:
Coincidentally I just started 'The Invention of Nature’ about Alexander Von Humboldt. The author claims he has more ’things’ named for him than any other person - places, statues, animals, plants, etc. He was famous world wide in his day.
Great Britain's Queen Victoria must be difficult to beat.
Humboldt appears on 21 PBS wiki pages. Victoria appears on 58.
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David Pilling
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