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They chose "Starbo", a mining town in the Cascade Range and from there, the group remembered "Starbuck", the name of the chief mate in the book Moby-Dick. [11] Bowker said, "Moby-Dick didn't have anything to do with Starbucks directly; it was only coincidental that the sound seemed to make sense." [11] [12]
According to Starbucks representative Tyler Krivich, “Starbucks’ name comes from the author Herman Melville’s Moby Dick novel, but the famous Siren logo was discovered while scouring old ...
Moby-Dick (1851) is a novel by Herman Melville.While some characters only appear in the shore-based chapters at the beginning of the book, and others are captains and crewmembers of other ships, the majority of the characters are officers or crewmembers of the whaling ship, Pequod.
Starbuck, in Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick; Lieutenant Starbuck, in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica film and TV series; Dana Scully, from The X-Files TV series (1993–2018) - was nicknamed Starbuck by her father; Kara Thrace, a character in the 2004 Battlestar Galactica TV series - her callsign was Starbuck; Starbuck, in the 1999 novel Fire ...
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville.The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.
Starbucks, the Seattle-based coffee chain, has been in business since 1971. It recently reversed its open-door policy — and here are some other compelling facts about the restaurant.
Pip Cliffs is a site in the Antarctic Peninsula, one of a group named after characters in Moby-Dick. [1] ... Ahab and Starbuck," although brief, says Mary Petrus ...
Starbucks discontinued the practice of handwriting orders and names on cups in 2020, during the height of the pandemic. ... "It may not be everybody's name ... but we will definitely be getting ...