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Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 05:38 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Fairbanks
- This is off by several years: Fairbanks' Broadway career began in the 1900s, not the late 1800s.
- The date and description do not line up: the theater officially opened on May 18, 1927, so it was not yet 'newly opened' on April 30.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 05:37 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Davies
- This parenthetical is medically wrong: osteomyelitis is a bone infection, not bone cancer.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 05:34 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pola_Negri
- This filmography entry lists the wrong director. Standard Polish film references identify Jan Pawłowski, not Aleksander Hertz, as the director of *Niewolnica zmysłów* (*Slave of the Senses*).
- This skips over Negri’s actual first German studio. Her early Berlin film work began with Saturn-Film; UFA came afterward.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 05:34 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Novarro
- His film career was already underway in 1916. AFI credits him in the 1916 release "Joan the Woman," so 1917 is a year too late.
- This start date is one year late. AFI records Novarro in the 1916 film "Joan the Woman."
- The Samuel-Novarro Residence is dated to 1928, not 1927, by the Los Angeles Conservancy.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 05:29 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_and_Sand_(1922_film)
- The August 5, 1922 U.S. release date does not match major film-reference records. AFI lists the film’s release date as September 10, 1922, with Los Angeles premiere/opening activity on August 6–7, not August 5.
- The Los Angeles Rialto premiere date is wrong. AFI documents a pre-release opening at the Rialto in downtown Los Angeles on August 6, 1922, not August 22.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 04:56 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf
- This misidentifies Nægling. In the poem, the gear Hrothgar gives Beowulf includes a sword formerly owned by Heorogar, while Nægling is later explicitly described as Beowulf's own sword in the dragon fight.
Substack Jul 8, 2026 at 03:17 PM
www.richardhanania.com/p/why-jd-vance-is-both-the-realest
- This overstates the consensus. Economists do not all agree on trade and immigration: some prominent economists have argued that trade shocks and immigration can significantly harm U.S. workers.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 02:37 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fer_Refraktor_(Potsdam)
- Die Wiedereinweihung fand nicht im Juni 2006 statt, sondern am 31. Mai 2006.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 02:33 PM
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz-Institut_f%C3%BCr_Astrophysik_...
- The employee count is outdated. Current AIP information says the institute manages about 220 staff members, and its Babelsberg campus has space for around 240 employees.
- This is outdated. The LOFAR station in Potsdam-Bornim is not merely being built anymore; AIP says it already operates its own LOFAR station there.
- This description is outdated and overstates the survey. RAVE's final data release was based on 451,783 unique stars, and observations continued until April 4, 2013, not just "until 2010."
- This is outdated with respect to Antarctica. AIP still operates robotic telescopes on Tenerife, but its Antarctic ICE-T telescope project was stopped in 2010.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 02:14 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon
- This overstates the case: heat transfer across nanometre gaps can occur by radiation as well, specifically near-field thermal radiation. The literature describes a transition region where near-field radiation and phonon-mediated transfer coexist or cross over.
- Optical phonon branches do not require different atomic species in the primitive cell. They arise whenever the primitive cell contains more than one atom, even if those atoms are identical, as in diamond.
- That is only true in the long-wavelength limit near the Brillouin-zone center. Away from that limit, acoustic phonons can have phase differences and changing relative displacements.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 02:13 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle
- As written, this is too general. Some quantum systems, such as a free particle, have a continuous energy spectrum rather than a discrete ladder of excited states, and the lowest-energy plane-wave state is not a normalizable ground state.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 02:13 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mako_(actor)
- East West Players says it was founded by nine artists, not Mako plus six others.
- East West Players' archive shows the 1980–81 season included several non-internment productions; the internment-themed series began in the 1981–82 season.
- The episode title is generally listed as “The Preying Mantis,” not “The Praying Mantis.”
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 02:12 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroh
- The pinyin here is misspelled. 艾洛 is romanized as Ài Luò, not “aì lùo.”
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 12:44 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles
- This misstates the debate lineup. Debate House’s own event page lists five speakers, with three arguing for return and two against—not a four-person debate split 2–2.
- This visitor comparison is outdated. Official figures show the Acropolis Museum drew about 1.99 million visitors in 2024, not 1.5 million.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 12:40 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone_Inc.
- The NYSE listing date is off by one day. Rosetta Stone's SEC filings say the IPO was declared effective on April 15, 2009, but the stock began trading on the NYSE on April 16, 2009.
- This is outdated and inaccurate. Public filings show John Hass stopped being president in January 2019 and stopped being CEO in October 2020.
- Lexia is not a current Rosetta Stone product. Lexia is a Cambium Learning brand, and Cambium kept that literacy business when it sold Rosetta Stone's languages division to IXL.
- This infobox entry is outdated. By March 2021, John Hass was already being described publicly as Rosetta Stone's former CEO.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 12:39 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_ancient_Egyptian_scrip...
- The Rosetta Stone decree dates to 196 BC, not 197 BC. British Museum sources identify the inscription as a priestly decree of Ptolemy V issued in 196 BC, specifically 27 March 196 BC.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 12:39 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
- This quote is anachronistic: the early French description was "une pierre de granite noir" ("a stone of black granite"), not "black granodiorite."
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 12:33 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_D%27Amelio
- The signing happened in September 2024, not September 2025. A contemporaneous report on the deal was published on September 13, 2024.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 12:32 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charli_D%27Amelio
- This gets the award title wrong. The D'Amelio Show won MTV's 2022 award for Best New Unscripted Series, not Best Unscripted Series.
Wikipedia Jul 8, 2026 at 11:02 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Sasse
- These 2014 Nebraska Republican primary vote totals are wrong. Official certified results show Sasse with 110,802 votes, Dinsdale with 50,494, and Osborn with 47,338.
- This appears to be outdated. The University of Florida's current official profile for Ben Sasse says his family continues to live in Gainesville, Florida, not Austin, Texas.