Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Jane's Message-ID: <1990Jun29.025743.7450@cbnews.att.com> Date: 29 Jun 90 02:57:43 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Mark Brader > That should be Janes, there is no apostrophe. It is actually a man's > name (Ted Janes if my memory serves me correctly) who started publishing the > book at the end of the last century. It's Jane's. The man was Fred(erick) T(homas) Jane, 1865-1916. Reference: The Science-Fiction Encyclopedia. (Huh?) He also wrote some SF, including one of the first stories to use matter transmission: "To Venus in Five Seconds" (1895). (Oh.) -- Mark Brader I've always wanted to be a mad scientist! SoftQuad Inc., Toronto Or perhaps just mad! utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com -- Robert L. Biddle