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Bible errata

In various printings of the King James Version of the Bible, some of the more famous examples have been given their own names. Among them are:

“Printers Bible” 1612: In some copies Psalm 119:161 reads “Printers have persecuted me without a cause” rather than “Princes have persecuted me…”

“Wicked Bible”, “Adulterous Bible” or “Sinner’s Bible” 1631: Barker and Lucas: Omits an important “not” from Exodus 20:14, making the seventh commandment read “Thou shalt commit adultery.”

“Lions Bible” 1804: 1 Kings 8:19 reads “thy son that shall come forth out of thy lions”, rather than “loins”. This edition had another error in Numbers 25:18 which read: “The murderer shall surely be put together” rather than “…put to death”.

“Owl Bible” 1944: “Owl” replaces “own”, making 1 Peter 3:5 read, “For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their owl husbands.”

Jakob Maria Mierscheid

Jakob Maria Mierscheid MdB (born 1 March 1933) has been a fictitious politician in the German Bundestag since 11 December 1979.

Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle

In the North Korean capital city of Pyongyang, Western news articles reported that a hidden camera was placed to catch citizens with improper hairstyles. This was part of a television programme broadcast at the same time as Let’s Trim Our Hair in Accordance with the Socialist Lifestyle. The offenders would then be interviewed by the presenter and asked to explain themselves. Their name, address and workplace would be announced to deter others from being embarrassed and ostracized. In some instances, a man’s wife or workplace would also be criticized for not managing a man’s appearance more along state guidelines.

Birdo

Birdo’s gender in the original manual for Super Mario Bros. 2 asserts that Birdo is a man who believes that he is a girl, and would rather be referred to as “Birdetta”. Later releases of Super Mario Bros. 2 lacked any mention of her gender in either the game or the manual. Nintendo eventually established Birdo as female, first in Mario Tennis which depicted Birdo and Yoshi as lovers. However, several games portray her as male, such as Captain Rainbow, or refer to the gender confusion without assigning one, such as in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It has been suggested that Birdo is a post-op transsexual by transsexual video game developer Jennifer Reitz, while Wired editor Chris Kohler felt that it was a way of retconning her transsexual status.

Winfried Freudenberg

Winfried Freudenberg was the last person to die in an attempt to escape from East Germany to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall. Freudenberg had decided to escape to the west with his wife, and immediately after the wedding the two began planning a trip by homemade balloon filled with natural gas.

Franz Reichelt

At 8:22 am, observed by a crowd of about thirty journalists and curious onlookers, he readied himself – facing towards the Seine – on a stool placed on a restaurant table next to the interior guardrail of the [Eiffel] tower’s first deck, a little more than 57 metres (187 ft) above the ground. After adjusting his apparatus with the assistance of his friends and checking the wind direction by throwing a piece of paper taken from a small book, he placed one foot on the guardrail, hesitated for about forty seconds, then leapt outwards. According to Le Figaro, he was calm and smiling just before he jumped.

King Clone

King Clone is estimated to be 11,700 years old, possibly the oldest living organism on Earth.

Baseball Rubbing Mud

The mud originates from a secret location on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River; only the company’s current owner, Jim Blintiff, knows the location. Each year, Blintiff visits the mud’s source, and returns with 1,000 pounds of it to store over the winter, until he sells it the following baseball season. Before all major- and minor-league baseball games, an umpire rubs six or more dozen balls with the Baseball Rubbing Mud to give them a rougher surface, making them easier for pitchers to grip (MLB Rule 3.01c). The rubbing mud’s unique feature is that it is “very fine, like thick chocolate pudding”, and it has been considered the “perfect baseball-rubbing mud”.

Jan C. Gabriel

In 1968, Ben Christ, the track owner of the U.S. 30 drag strip in Hobart, Indiana, wanted to advertise and make it known that his tracks was open on Sundays. Originally, the idea for the tagline was to have two announcers trade intonations of “Sunday!” After dismissing nearly 50 announcers because they weren’t vibrant enough, Gabriel’s announcing was picked as the iconic tagline by Cronen.

Isildur1

Isildur1 is the online username of an anonymous Swedish high stakes online poker player at Full Tilt Poker. He drew considerable attention in the poker world in late 2009, taking part in all ten of the largest pots in online poker history.