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Is it true?
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: david5084-ga List Price: $10.00 |
Posted:
14 Jul 2005 18:42 PDT
Expires: 13 Aug 2005 18:42 PDT Question ID: 543680 |
I have heard that the Lazy Susan food storage cabinet was named in honor of one of Thomas Jefferson's daughters. Could you please confirm or deny this? |
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Re: Is it true?
From: scriptor-ga on 14 Jul 2005 18:56 PDT |
This may be interesting: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0603/dictionary_men061703.asp Scriptor |
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Re: Is it true?
From: myoarin-ga on 14 Jul 2005 19:37 PDT |
It seems like it could not be true, as Jefferson had no daughter named Susan: http://www.americanpresident.org/history/thomasjefferson/ (and the daughter of a slave was named Sally). Myoarin |
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Re: Is it true?
From: proth-ga on 14 Jul 2005 23:43 PDT |
A bit of Google searching and I find results that say it is named after a daughter of Thomas <i>Edison</i> as opposed to Jefferson, being a creation of his. I can't verify that that isn't just legend, though. |
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Re: Is it true?
From: myoarin-ga on 15 Jul 2005 03:09 PDT |
At the bottom of this site you will find the Edison also did not have a daughter named Susan: http://www.kids.net.au/encyclopedia-wiki/th/Thomas_Edison Data confirmed on another site, in case you also distrust a site for kids that states that Edison's "greatest invention" was the Menlo Park Lab. |
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Re: Is it true?
From: justaskscott-ga on 15 Jul 2005 08:27 PDT |
Confirming myoarin's findings: "Timeline of Jefferson's Life" Monticello http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/timeline.html "Timeline for Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies" The Library of Congress -- American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edtime.html Thus, there was no daughter Susan for Jefferson or Edison, unless a daughter had that nickname, or a Susan was born out of wedlock. |
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Re: Is it true?
From: myoarin-ga on 15 Jul 2005 12:52 PDT |
Thanks, Scott. Just had another thought: "black-eyed-susan", a daisy-like flower. Could the namer of the item have considered that a turntable with plates around the edge and the condiments in the middle resembled such a flower? Pure speculation on my part. Myoarin |
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