Wanna Live Forever? Become A Noun

A playful animated look at people like Guillotin, Shrapnel and Léotard, whose names live on as everyday words, and at what it means to be remembered as a single definition.

A witty, bite-sized history lesson that makes you see familiar words in a new light.

Joseph Guillotin, Henry Shrapnel and Jules Leotard became immortal -- by entering the English language. But NPR's Robert Krulwich and Adam Cole discover that when your entire life is reduced to a single definition, the r

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