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Letter: For the record

Published 13 January 2016

• The name of the performer who entertained cabaret audiences as Le Pétomane was Joseph Pujol (19/26 December 2015, p 58).

• Don’t get lost in cyberspace: to trace the path of your data on a Macintosh or Unix-flavoured computer, type the command traceroute into the terminal window (12 December 2015, p 30).

• The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo launched chemical attacks in 1994 and 1995 (28 November 2015, p 30).

Issue no. 3056 published 16 January 2016

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