this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
305 points (100.0% liked)

A Comm for Historymemes

2985 readers
437 users here now

A place to share history memes!

Rules:

  1. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, assorted bigotry, etc.

  2. No fascism, atrocity denial, etc.

  3. Tag NSFW pics as NSFW.

  4. Follow all Lemmy.world rules.

Banner courtesy of @[email protected]

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
305
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)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
35 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm here to ruin the joke: both the Russian and German word for "Emperor" are "named after" Caesar (Czar and Kaiser).

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And the salad after Caesar Cardini (Italian immigrant running a restaurant in Tijuana in 1924).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who was named after Gaius Julius Caesar in one way or another, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Technically Sextus, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Sextus? You barely know us.