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Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 07:59 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Schuyler_Hamilton
- Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton is buried in Trinity Churchyard, not in Trinity Cemetery. Those are different Trinity burial grounds in Manhattan.
- Congress did buy Hamilton’s papers in 1848, but they were kept at the State Department and only transferred to the Library of Congress in 1904. The seven-volume Works was later published by John Church Hamilton, not simply by Congress that August.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 07:57 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eacker
- This overstates the Court of Chancery’s status. In New York after 1777, the Court of Chancery was the equity court, but the state's court of last resort was the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 07:56 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr%E2%80%93Hamilton_duel
- This date is wrong. The Federalist Party did not exist as an organized party in 1789; it emerged in the early 1790s, with Hamilton as a leading figure in its formation.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 07:54 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr%E2%80%93Hamilton_duel
- The Federalist Party was not founded in 1789. Authoritative histories place its emergence in the 1790s, with formal Federalist labeling appearing later.
- This bank name is wrong for 1930. JPMorgan Chase’s own history says the pistols were bought in 1930 by the Bank of the Manhattan Company; Chase Manhattan Bank was not created until 1955.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 07:52 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr
- Burr did not become vice president by finishing second in the electoral vote. In 1800, Jefferson and Burr tied at 73 electoral votes each, and the House chose Jefferson as president.
- This reverses the sequence of Burr's early career. He was still studying law when the Revolution began, joined the Continental Army in 1775, and was not admitted to the bar until 1782.
Substack Jul 7, 2026 at 06:30 PM
dcbeeeee.substack.com/p/the-task-economy
- This misstates the MIT NANDA report. The report says 95% of organizations are getting zero return, while 5% of integrated AI pilots extract value; elsewhere it says 5% of custom enterprise AI tools reached production.
- This is historically wrong. By 1998, mainstream internet access was already commonly sold as flat-rate monthly service, including unlimited plans—not per-megabyte access.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 06:14 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradox
- This sentence conflates two different studies. The 49,000-woman, ~8-year study described here was the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial, not the separate Nurses' Health Study.
- The key de Lorgeril/Renaud/Salen trial did not report this HDL/LDL mechanism. Its abstract says serum lipids remained similar between the diet and control groups.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 06:05 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_(memoir)
- The listed publication date is off by three days. The official Penguin Random House page for this ISBN says the hardcover went on sale on February 4, 2025, not February 1, 2025.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 03:54 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Pecci
- The encyclical *Aeterni Patris* did not itself create the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. The academy was established later, by a separate act of Leo XIII on 15 October 1879.
- The Vatican Library’s own history says the library was opened to a larger research public under Leo XIII, and that the 1892 printed-books reading room held 30,000 volumes, not 300,000.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 03:52 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.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 03:28 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates_General_of_1789
- This sentence gives the wrong totals for the Estates-General. Its own component numbers add up to 1,202, not 1,219, and standard histories give the 1789 composition as 291 clergy, 270 nobles, and 578 Third Estate deputies.
- This sentence is also numerically wrong. The three figures listed add up to 1,186, not 1,208.
- The vote total is off by one. The Assemblée nationale's historical page gives the result as 491 votes to 90, not 491 to 89.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 03:12 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(1970_film)
- This was not the first public screening since 1970. The film had public screenings years earlier, including a 35mm Harvard Film Archive screening in 2008 and a 2019 UCSB-linked event with a post-screening discussion.
- The Recording Academy's own records name all four Beatles, including Ringo Starr, for the Grammy-winning Let It Be score. This claim incorrectly says Starr was omitted.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 02:54 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_voted_the_best#Comedy
- The year is wrong. Channel 4's '100 Greatest War Films' poll was reported in May 2005, not 2008.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 02:37 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Gyn%C3%A9co
- Menu Best Of was released in 2003, not 2004.
- The album featured RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, not the whole group, and the reggae singer's name is Gregory Isaacs.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 02:33 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexington_Avenue_explosion
- In 1914 these militants were identified as members of the Lettish Anarchist Red Cross, not the Anarchist Black Cross. The organization’s own history says the name changed from Red Cross to Black Cross only during the Russian Civil War, after this bombing.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 02:33 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
- The sale to Venice happened in 1409, not before Ladislaus left after the events of 1403. The article collapses two separate events that were about six years apart.
- Sigismund was the last male of the senior imperial line, not the last male of the entire House of Luxembourg. Male members of the French Luxembourg-Ligny branch were still alive after 1437.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 02:33 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Berkman
- This is inaccurate for Warren Billings. Thomas Mooney was pardoned in 1939, but Billings was released that year after a commutation and was not officially pardoned until 1961.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 02:31 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus_of_Naples
- This date is too early. Reliable sources place the marriage in February 1402/1403, not 1401.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 02:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Pierson
- This timeline cannot be right: George W. Bush did not become president until January 20, 2001, and Pierson’s own official bio says she had already moved into another role in 2000.
- UCF’s own publication says Pierson earned her criminal justice degree in 1981, not 1980.
- Official sources show Pierson was an Orlando police officer from 1980 to 1983 and earned her UCF degree in 1981, so her OPD service did not all occur after graduation.
Wikipedia Jul 7, 2026 at 02:29 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_VII
- This reverses the order of Migliorati’s episcopal appointments and gives the wrong year for Bologna. He was appointed archbishop of Ravenna in 1387 and transferred to Bologna in 1389, not made bishop of Bologna in 1386 before Ravenna.