- ALNITAK (Zeta Orionis). With brilliant Betelgeuse and Rigel dominating great Orion, we pay little heed to the individual stars of the Hunter’s belt except as a group, the trio the Arabs called the “string of pearls.” All second magnitude, Johannes Bayer seems to have named the stars Delta, Epsilon, and Zeta from right to left.
- Rutherford B. Hayes (allthetropes.org)
Rumor has it that he won his presidency as part of a backroom deal: Hayes ends Reconstruction, he gets to be president. This led his critics to nickname him “Rutherfraud”. (The B stands for “Birchard”)