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However, it has many errors and biases:
 
However, it has many errors and biases:
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*The date for [[eminent domain]] is incorrect: 1883.  The term was used as early as 1125{{fact}}.
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*The date for [[eminent domain]] is incorrect: 1738<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eminent%20domain</ref>.  The term was used as early as 1125{{fact}}.
 
*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]].
 
*The entry for Yiddish is too narrow in describing it as only a [[language]] of Jewish residents and descendants of central and eastern [[Europe]].  Yiddish is spoken worldwide.
 
*The entry for Yiddish is too narrow in describing it as only a [[language]] of Jewish residents and descendants of central and eastern [[Europe]].  Yiddish is spoken worldwide.
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