Paris
48.8567°N 2.3522°E · Q90
3 English words in this atlas trace back to Paris. It sits in France.
The plaster is named for the gypsum quarries of Montmartre.
Large gypsum deposits under Montmartre in Paris supplied the calcined plaster, and English named the material for the city.
The pastry is a bicycle wheel, baked for a 750-mile race.
The cycling race from Paris to Brest and back began in 1891, and the pastry is said to have been shaped like a wheel in its honor by a baker on the route, usually named as Louis Durand at Maisons-Laffitte around 1910. The race still runs every four years, while the pastry now turns up on menus with no interest in cycling at all.
German chemistry journals refused the name for fifty years and printed a rival one instead.
Georges Urbain split ytterbium in 1907 and named the new element after Lutetia, the Roman settlement on the Seine that became Paris. Carl Auer von Welsbach reached the same result independently and proposed cassiopeium, which German publications used into the 1950s. Charles James in New Hampshire had also isolated it, but did not press his claim.