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“Charles
Ponzi achieved in his lifetime something very rare: his surname became
part of the English Language. Thomas Crapper did that in the 1860s, when
he developed and marketed the modern toilet, and so did Sir Robert Peel
when he organized the British police; to this day, agents of that force
may be called "bobbies" or sometimes "peelers." But
how many other examples can one recall?
 
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