America - Amerigo Vespucci was involved in the European
		  discovery of the Americas.

	atlas - Atlas was a giant of great strength in Greek myths.
		  Many map books pictured Atlas holding a globe on
		  his back and soon such books were called atlases.

	bikini - The Bikini Atol is where many nuclear bombs were
		  tested. Somehow this name was given to skimpy
		  swimsuits.

	bologna - A city in Italy named Bologna was famous for
		  smoked sausage which became known as bologna
		  or baloney.

	braille - Louis Braille, who was blind, developed a system
		  of raised dots to represent the letters of the
		  alphabet.

	diesel - Rudolf Diesel was a German engineer who invented
		  the diesel engine.

	guppy - R. J. Lechmere Guppy discovered this small tropical
		  fish in Trinidad.

	levis - Levi Strauss originally made these work pants during
		  the California Gold Rush.

	marathon - In 490 B.C. a messenger ran from Marathon to Athens.
		  Both of these cities are in Greece and they are
		  about 26 miles apart.

	Morse code - Samuel Morse devised a system of short and long
		  beeps to communicate.