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However, it has many errors and biases.  Please add to this list as you discover more:
 
However, it has many errors and biases.  Please add to this list as you discover more:
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The date for "[[eminent domain]]" is incorrect: 1883.  The term was used as early as 1125, and means the government seizure of private property for public use, such as to build a [[courthouse]] or [[highway]].
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The date for "[[eminent domain]]" is incorrect: 1883.  The term was used as early as 1125, and means the government seizure of private property for public benefit, such as to build a [[courthouse]], [[highway]] or [[shopping mall]].<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/26/60minutes/main575343.shtml</ref>
    
The date and description of [[pogrom]] is not precisely correct.  Merriam-Webster provides a date of 1903 and calls it an organized [[massacre]] of helpless people.  [[Pogrom]] is a [[Yiddish]] term used in [[Russian]] beginning in the late 1800s to describe an organized campaign of [[violence]] (not always a "massacre") against [[Jewish]] people in [[Russia]].
 
The date and description of [[pogrom]] is not precisely correct.  Merriam-Webster provides a date of 1903 and calls it an organized [[massacre]] of helpless people.  [[Pogrom]] is a [[Yiddish]] term used in [[Russian]] beginning in the late 1800s to describe an organized campaign of [[violence]] (not always a "massacre") against [[Jewish]] people in [[Russia]].
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