Fruit of the Loom among other names in athletic wear. The Fruit of the Loom brand dates back to 1851 in Rhode Island when Robert Knight, a textile mill owner, visited his friend, Rufus Skeel. Skeel owned a small shop in Providence that sold cloth from Knight's mill. Skeel's daughter painted images of apples and applied them to the bolts of cloth. The ones with the apple emblems proved most popular. Knight thought the labels would be the perfect symbol for his trade name, Fruit of the Loom – an expression referring to clothes, paralleling the phrase "fruit of the womb" meaning "children", which
Egyptian fruit bat Egyptian fruit bat The Egyptian fruit bat or Egyptian rousette ("Rousettus aegyptiacus") is a species of Old World fruit bat. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire originally gave this species the specific name of "egyptiacus" in 1810, but he later revised it to "ægyptiacus". In 1992, G. B. Corbet and J. E. Hill argued that this revision was invalid and changed the name back to "egyptiacus"; the 1999 "Mammalian Species" review used "egyptiacus" as well. However, Geoffroy's revision was argued to be valid in 2001 by D. Kock. He notes that the second spelling was "accepted almost universally by the scientific community", including