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** According to my high school English teacher this was known enough in Keats's time so that it was probably a deliberate stylistic choice under [[Rule of Cool]]: would "stately Balboa" have sounded nearly as pretty in a poem?

** Or, it may have been a deliberate metaphor, in that Keats and Cortes were surveying a scene which was new to them but had already been viewed by others.

* ''Alex Cross's Trial'' by James Patterson. This book, set when Teddy Roosevelt was president (i.e., between September 14, 1901 and March 4, 1909) and which claims to be historically accurate, makes the following mistakes:

** The book focuses on lynchings taking place in the South, stressing that this is unusual and is not happening anywhere else, even though lynchings have taken place EVERYWHERE in America--the South, the Midwest, the West and yes, in the North.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[South Park]]''s "I'm a Little Bit Country" presents a massive historical failure on the American Revolution. Determining exactly how the Founding Fathers would view the invasion of Iraq is a debate much too large for this page, but the armed conflict of the Revolution itself ''was already raging'' in the Colonies. The battles of Lexington and Concord had been fought in 1775, Benedict Arnold had captured a crucial British fort to help break the siege of Boston, and several other battles were fought. Not everyone wanted to go to war, and many of the Founding Fathers even opposed independence itself, but they recognized that the violent struggle was an inevitability.

** [[Rule of Funny]] is probably an explanation for these inconsistencies.