§ Did You Know?

• ...that James Blish coined the phrase "gas giant"?
• ...that John Bell Blish was one of the inventors of the "Thompson" submachine gun?
• ...and that John Bell Blish also sent the first official U. S. Navy radio message?
• ...that there is a point of land on the Atlantic Ocean in Barnstable, Massachusetts named Blish Point?
• That there is a Blish Park in Marlborough, Connecticut?
• That there were three American vessels named "Blish"?
  • The USS John Blish (First a minesweeper, then a survey vessel.)
  • The tug Blish, which sank due to an engineer's error.
  • The schooner E. D. Blish. Sank in Lake Huron, 1864 — all hands lost.

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