On 12/1/03 10:00 AM, David Jencks wrote:
Not to mention Xerces (definitely a person) and Alexandria (city in Egypt), Merlin (religious and possibly a person's name), Pluto (religious and possibly a geographical place, depending on whether you think planets have geography), and possibly Avalon (possibly a geographical name for the British Isles AFAIK)
Xerces is a butterfly. It is not a misspelling of Xerxes (the person)
According to http://www.xerces.org/Xerces.htm
"The French entomologist Boisduval named the butterfly for King Xerxes, but retained the French spelling, Xerces."
[ runs quickly away to put another coat of paint on the bikeshed ]
-- Jeremy
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