Editing Reginald Bretnor (section)

==Early life and education==
Reginald Bretnor was born on July 30, 1911, in [[Vladivostok]],<ref name=BioBretnorDotCom>{{cite web | author=Flaxman, Fred | date = 2004 | title = Reginald Bretnor | work = Bretnor.com | format = author-provided biographical page | location = Weaverville, NC | publisher = Story Books and Fred Flaxman | url=http://www.bretnor.com/BretnorBio.html |access-date=2010-02-15 |archive-date=2008-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222210811/http://www.bretnor.com/BretnorBio.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> in the [[Imperial Russia|Russian empire]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | date = February 8, 2025 | title = Russian Empire | encyclopedia = [[Encyclopaedia Britannica]] (EB, Britannica.com) | url = https://www.britannica.com/place/Russian-Empire | access-date = 22 March 2024}} This citation establishes that the political structure of which Vladivostok was a part, in 1911, was the Russian empire. Note, this work is properly cited, indicating the author given at the source. Wikipedia's red-labeling of this as an error is a shortcoming of their system.</ref> Bretnor's father, Grigory Kahn,{{cn|date=March 2025}} has alternatively been described as a "Latvian Jewish banker",<ref name=BioBretnorDotCom/> and a [[Russian Jew]],{{cn|date=March 2025}} and his mother, her name not yet identified in a biographical source, alternatively as an English governess,<ref name=BioBretnorDotCom/> and one born British that became a Russian subject.{{cn|date=March 2025}} Bretnor's family left Siberia for Japan, spending from 1917 to 1920 there,<ref name=BioBretnorDotCom/> then moving to [[San Diego, California]]. Al least one other source states it was his mother that settled them—she, and the children Reginald and Margaret—in the United States, in 1920.{{verification needed|date=March 2025}}