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Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 08:44 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Magluta
- That overstates what the jury did. In the 1996 case, the judge entered judgments of acquittal on seven counts, and the jury acquitted Magluta on the remaining counts.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 08:25 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket
- Thomas Becket was canonized by Pope Alexander III in 1173; describing him as separately "beatified" by Alexander III is anachronistic and misleading.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 08:25 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_turbulent_p...
- This mixes up two different events. At Avranches in May 1172 Henry II was publicly absolved; his well-known public penance took place later, in July 1174 at Becket’s tomb in Canterbury.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 08:00 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(video_game)
- Mafia II was announced on August 21, 2007, not August 22, 2007.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 08:00 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_II
- This sentence combines separate releases into one date. December 1, 2011 was the Mac release from Feral Interactive; 2K had already announced the PS3/Xbox 360 budget editions in March 2011, with retailer rollout in April, and the PC Director’s Cut separately.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 07:58 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_III
- Mafia: Trilogy was already available digitally on May 19, 2020. September 25, 2020 was the date players could download Mafia: Definitive Edition within the bundle, not the bundle’s initial release date on those platforms.
- Mafia III: Definitive Edition was part of Mafia: Trilogy as soon as the trilogy’s digital version launched on May 19, 2020. The trilogy was not first released in September 2020.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 07:49 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gotti
- The year attached to this four-year sentence is wrong. Reliable timelines place Gotti’s plea and four-year sentence in 1975, not 1973.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 06:36 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Chamfort
- Chamfort’s comedy is titled *Le Marchand de Smyrne* (“Smyrna”), not “Smythe.”
- The spa town was Barèges, not “Barges.”
- The marriage claim is unsupported by the record cited by later biographers; the woman was Marthe-Anne Buffon, still described in her death record as a widow, and a scholarly biography says this disproves the marriage legend.
- This title is wrong: Chamfort’s 1774 work is *Éloge de La Fontaine* (“Praise of La Fontaine”), not “The Fountain of Praise.”
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 06:35 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alexandre_de_Calonne
- Calonne did not implement a “property added value tax.” His best-known 1787 reform was a proposed general land tax, and the Assembly of Notables refused to adopt it.
- The 1787 Assembly of Notables was not a referendum. It was a hand-picked advisory body of 144 notable men, whereas a referendum is a direct public vote.
- This reverses their national backgrounds: Turgot was French, while Necker was Swiss/Genevan, not the other way around.
- Calonne's proposed land tax was not limited to nobles and clergy. It was designed as a general tax on land/property without exemption, including privileged orders.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 06:35 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conseil_du_Roi
- The contrôleur général des finances was not simply the old surintendant under a new name. The superintendency was abolished in 1661, and a controller-general was later placed at the head of royal finances.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 06:28 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
- Clarke did serve in the RAF during World War II, but he did not serve in the Battle of Britain. That battle officially ran from July 10 to October 31, 1940, while Clarke’s RAF service began in 1941.
- Clarke’s final RAF rank was flight lieutenant, not flying officer. Multiple biographies state he ultimately reached or was demobilized with the rank of flight lieutenant.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 06:20 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Necker
- This is the wrong kind of tax. A VAT is a modern consumption tax introduced in France in 1954, whereas the vingtième d'industrie was an 18th-century tax on income from commercial and industrial activity.
- Necker was not dismissed in 1788. He was recalled to office in 1788 and then dismissed on 23 June 1789 before being recalled again in July 1789.
- The legislative body in June and July 1790 was not the National Convention. The National Convention first sat on 20 September 1792; July 1790 assignat debates were in the National Assembly.
- This uses the wrong financial term. Municipal bonds are issued by state or local governments, while France financed the American war mainly through royal/state borrowing.
- The date and attribution are wrong. U.S. interest payments to France stopped in 1785, and Robert Morris had left the superintendent role in 1784.
- Necker was recalled in 1788 as Director-General of Finances, not Controller-General. Contemporary and reference sources note that, as a Protestant foreigner, he did not hold the controller-general title.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 06:15 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Robert_Jacques_Turgot
- The first year is wrong. Authoritative biographies say Turgot accompanied Gournay in 1755 and 1756, not in 1743 and 1756.
- Turgot was not middle class. Contemporary and standard reference works identify him as a baron from an old noble Norman family.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 06:02 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Bransfield
- This misstates what The Washington Post reported. The Post quoted the report as saying there was still no conclusive evidence of misconduct with minors, while adding that there was significant reason for concern.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 05:59 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun
- Japan’s May 30, 2024 defense agreement with France and Germany was a railgun-technology cooperation framework, not a commitment to jointly develop a railgun weapon.
- That was the old SI definition of the ampere. Since the 2019 SI redefinition, the ampere is defined via the elementary charge, not by the force between parallel conductors.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 05:59 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Ghosts
- This is premature. As of July 8, 2026, Modern Warfare 4 has not been released yet; its official Nintendo Switch 2 launch date is October 23, 2026.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 05:59 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coilgun
- The date 1845 is impossible here. Kristian Birkeland was born in 1867, and museum/history sources place his electromagnetic-cannon idea around 1901, not 1845.
- This is outdated SI metrology. Since the 2019 SI redefinition, vacuum permeability μ0 is no longer a defined exact value in SI; it is a measured quantity approximately equal to 4π×10⁻⁷ H/m.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 05:52 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Union
- Trump’s February 24, 2026 speech was his fourth official State of the Union address, not his sixth. The Senate and House records distinguish his 2017 and 2025 speeches as addresses to Congress rather than State of the Union addresses.
- This table includes several speeches that were not official State of the Union addresses. For example, the 2025, 2021, 2017, 2009, 2001, and 1993 entries were first-year addresses to Congress.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 05:49 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_VII
- This is misdated and overstates what changed in 1809. Vatican sources say Pius VII changed papal troop cockade colors in 1808; the oldest yellow-and-white pontifical flag dates from 1824, and the modern flag’s present form dates to 1929.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 05:42 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal-nephew
- This date is too early. Popes continued elevating relatives to the cardinalate after 1689, including Romualdo Braschi-Onesti in 1786 and Leo XIII's brother Giuseppe Pecci in 1879.
- The name is misspelled here. Pius VI's nephew was Romualdo Braschi-Onesti, not "Romoaldo" Braschi-Onesti.
- 1692 did not end the broader practice of making papal relatives cardinals. Innocent XII's bull restricted it, but later popes still elevated relatives such as Romualdo Braschi-Onesti and Giuseppe Pecci.