If you know a non-English European language, you probably know that “history” and “story” are often the same word. I don’t know how this happened but it seems deeply wrong. I was outraged. At the least, it seems to undermine the authority and credibility that history claims, as opposed to the making-shit-up that stories do. Turns out I was wrong about everything, about the deeply-wrong part and especially about the authority-of-history part. Sometimes I purely love being wrong.
Anyway, please enjoy my wrongness too. The first wrong thing was originally published May 29, 2015. The story it talks about was published September 14, 2015. And the wrongness was finally put right, this time with experts, on August 25, 2015.