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Michigan Fifth-Grader Finds 27-Year-Old Mistake at Smithsonian Science Museum

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  1. Celtkin

    Celtkin <B>Webmaster</b> Luxury Box

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    Is fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam smarter than the Smithsonian?

    On a winter break trip with his family to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, the 11-year-old southwestern Michigan boy noticed that a notation, in bold lettering, mistakenly identified the Precambrian as an era.

    Since it opened in 1981, millions of people have paraded past the museum's Tower of Time, a display involving prehistoric time. Kenton was the first to point out the error.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,345488,00.html
     
  2. cnc66

    cnc66 wiley veteran, bad spelur Luxury Box

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    I read that this morning and smiled.. then they got his name wrong.. ooops
     
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  3. Motion

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    :lol: Nice
     
  4. charlestonphan

    charlestonphan Junior Member

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    smart kid! that's awesome. i am pretty sure i recall seeing what exhibit they are talking about.

    and, ummm, oh yeah, i uhhhhh, noticed it too on my famlily's last visit, but i didn't want the historians to feel bad so i didn't mention it. yeah, that's it... that's the ticket.
     
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  5. Idahophin

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    :lol:

    I will be honest, I wouldn't have spotted the mistake. :wink2:
     
  6. Clumpy

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    Can see The Ralph!!
    I would have been stumped reading "Precambrian"
     
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  7. sugarcane

    sugarcane Member

    They got his city wrong too.

    Jeeze I live in this state,I wonder how many times they've screwed us.About 7 months ago they sent me a bill for taxes from the bar that I already paid.Looked like a bill,almost paid it.I called the accountant instead and they wrote the state a nice nasty letter.About 3 weeks later I got an apology but I bet they would have kept the money if I hadn't went hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm WTF!
     
  8. texasPHINSfan

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    and it sounds like this is a semantics thing.... so they mis-identified it as an "era" instead of a period... sheesh! Kudos to the kid for picking up on that, but everyone making a big deal? this poor kid is going to be one of those grammar-police types that corrects everyone. hope he signs up on ThePhins.com :up:
     
  9. unluckyluciano

    unluckyluciano For My Hero JetsSuck

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    Kool then I'll have a deputy.
     
  10. cnc66

    cnc66 wiley veteran, bad spelur Luxury Box

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