Word: error
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...error is quite unimportant, and I would not call it to your attention had I not been reliably informed that your identification of me as at present a unit in the Globe organization is regarded by the Globe management as "most unfortunate." I assured my informant that I would ask you to correct the error...
...call attention to an error in the title below the picture on p. 14, TIME, Nov. 25? It should read "Theodore Roosevelt and Friends," omitting "Kaiser Wilhelm," for he was not there. This picture was taken early in the morning, May 10, 1910, at the exit of the private waiting room of one of Berlin's railroad stations (Stettiner Bahnhof, I think), while the Colonel and members of the American Embassy there to receive him waited for their conveyances to come up. The crowd outside was cheering. I recall this occasion very distinctly and even more distinctly the actual...
...Shartle all thanks for correcting a photographer's 20-year-old error...
...true solar year are 365 days, 5 hr. 48 min., 46 sec. This is 26 seconds less than in the calendar year.* In 3,323 years the accumulated error will mount to a full day, thereby vastly confuse astronomical and historical records...
...from February. By 1582 the inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days. In 1752 Great Britain and its colonies (including America) adopted it, but by that time the accumulated error was eleven days. Turkey adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1917, Russia in 1918, Rumania and Serbia in 1919, Greece...