Wednesday, November 01, 2006

A different 5th of November

Seemingly unrelated corrections from the New York Times today --

A map with an article on Oct. 27 about motorists’ anger in Britain over cameras along the roads that help identify speeders incorrectly applied a shading to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that made them look as if they are not part of Britain.

The London Journal article yesterday, about the irritation with Halloween expressed by many Britons, misstated the nationality of Guy Fawkes, who was the perpetrator of a failed plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 and is the inspiration for a traditional fall holiday in Britain known as Bonfire Night. Fawkes was English, not Irish.

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