The Nehru Jacket was named after Jawaharial Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India.

In the early 1900s, Austrian physician Dr. Clemens von Pirquet coined the term “allergy” meaning “altered reactivity.”

The original “Texans” football team was the Dallas Texans, which is now the Kansas City Chiefs. The Austin Texans were a semi-pro team of the early Eighties. The current Texans are the Houston Texans.

Dwight Eisenhower and J. Edgar Hoover liked to paint by numbers.

Author J.R.R. Tolkien kept his diary from 1926 to 1933 entirely in Elvish and modelled the booming voice of the Ent Treebeard on that of his friend, fellow writer C.S. Lewis.

This article appears in December 5 • 2003.

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