Harvey Wallbangers and Tam O'Shanters: A Book of Eponyms - The People Who ... - Martin Hannan - Google Books

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Did you know that Maria Ann Smith was genuinely a grandmother who died not knowing that she had given the world one of the best varieties of apple? Or that the word tawdry, meaning tacky or tasteless, has its origins in the fate of a seventh-century Saxon…