There is something that I’ve been wondering about recently. I’ve been wondering why it is that a lot of things in nature are named after people. I suppose that there are a few different reasons although the truth is that I don’t know for sure. I’m not even sure how to look this up.

I know that there are a lot of things in nature that are named after the people who discovered them. A lot of state parks and things like that have been named in this way. People who donate a lot of money or land to something like this might also have an area named after them. Additionally, important people may be commemorated in this way.

However, I’m not sure about common names. For example, why is Lake Louise named what it is? Or why do we name hurricanes after specific names like Katrina or Felix? I’m not sure how these names got picked or why we would choose to use common names to identify things in nature. My best guess is that we try to personify big things in nature so that we feel like we can understand them a little bit better. I don’t know if that’s true though. What do you think?

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One of my favorite movies is Kill Bill starring David Carradine. Another one of my favorite movies obviously is Kill Bill 2. And when I was a kid I used to watch this show on TV called Kung Fu. And that of course starred David Carradine. I guess you could say that I am a big David Carradine fan.

So it goes without saying that I was shocked a little while back when I heard that he had died. I’m not even going to go into the bizarre circumstances surrounding his death. But then again when you see some of the roles he has played as an actor it becomes very possible that he was quite the character in real life.

Now I have never been one to collect things like Samurai swords or any other martial weapons, but I was surfing around on the internet and stumbled upon a real collector’s item. It turns out that David Carradine signed a limited number of exact replicas of the sword that he used in the Kill Bill movies! Now they aren’t just giving these things away, but because they can’t really get him to sign any more I think this could be a good investment. I guess we’ll see.

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