Thursday, January 15, 2009

geographic and historical errors

  • The Marianas Trench is near the Mariana Islands, not in the Phillipines.
  • The NGA west gallery was completed in 1941, about 50 years after I said.
  • The train station where the NGA is was a B&P station, which would be removed when Union station was built (being the union of the B&P and Pennsylvania railroads, among others).
  • The 99-cent thing may have been caused by newspapermen, but probably not. If it was, it happened in Chicago, not New York, and with Stone, not related to the Pulitzer/Hearst thing.
  • I haven't been able to find any info about pricing gas to the tenth of a cent, except that it would have made sense a long time ago, when a cent was worth something and you would have needed a lot of gas to get anywhere.

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