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Ah, like 'Arkhan Land', rediscoverer of the Land Raider.

(And of course, Jimmy Space).

lol, I love this. These gems are one of the reason I hang out on HN ;-)
Adding this to my list of favorite April Fool's pranks -- my favorite being the recently featured islands of San Serriffe.
And apparently they took place on subsequent April Fools Days -- 77' and 78'. Must have been a golden era for pranking.
Haha, adding this to my list of funny academic pranks. This is right up there with the MIT balloon at the Harvard-Yale game.
How much of standardization or cannon is 'invented' in the same exact way? Very William S. Burroughs.
Well, or Thomas Pynchon.

I grew up seeing Al Kaline in the baseball box scores, and much later reflected that I would have rolled my eyes had I seen the name in The Crying of Lot 49 or Gravity's Rainbow.

He couldn't have come up with a more french name? /s
Why make the rule that capital letters only be used when the unit is named after a person, if the rule is discarded the instant it is inconvenient?