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Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths, also known simply as Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, is a work by Thomas Browne challenging and refuting the "vulgar" or common errors and superstitions of his age. It first appeared in 1646 and went through five subsequent editions, the ...
The life expectancy among adults was much higher; [20] a 21-year-old man in medieval England, for example, could expect to live to the age of 64. [21] [20] However, in various places and eras, life expectancy was noticeably lower. For example, monks often died in their 20s or 30s.
Paper error: Stamp is printed on the wrong type of paper which, e.g., may have a different watermark or color than intended. Perforation error: Perforations are missing on one or several sides or put in the wrong place (e.g. diagonally). As perforations may be removed by cutting them off, imperforate errors are collected in pairs.
Great Blunders Of World War II is a documentary series looking at some of the worst errors of World War II that affected the course of history. [1] [2] They are the decisions that have gone down in infamy, the battles determined not by bravery and brilliance but by incompetence and arrogance.
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The facts that these dates differ by 11 days and that the event in question takes place in Romania in the 19th Century suggest that the discrepancy is due to the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. See Gregorian calendar and Old Style and New Style dates. Both Britannica and Wikipedia should specify which calendar is referred to.
Throughout history, printers' errors, unconventional translations [b] and translation mistakes have appeared in a number of published Bibles. Bibles with features considered to be erroneous are known as Bible errata , and were often destroyed or suppressed due to their contents being considered heretical by some.
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