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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.
* ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Harry Potter and Thethe Chamber of Secrets]]''. Witches weren't being burned at the stake or persecuted in any noticeable way in the 10th century, and the Founders probably wouldn't have had surnames.
* ''[[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.
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