Words at Play : Top 10 Words from Place Names
In July 1946, the United States detonated two nuclear bombs at the Bikini atoll, an island in the
South Pacific, which of course was big news around the world.
A year later, a French fashion designer introduced a scanty two-piece bathing suit and named it
the bikini.
Unable to find a model immodest enough to wear it, he debuted it on a stripper and it too became big news.