Here's a sample of errors:

It has Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI going to the guillotine on the same day, when they actually went nine months apart.

Abraham Lincoln, it says, received a law degree in 1836; he never attended law school.

The Magna Carta is known as the Great Charter "because of its massive size."

Enemies, a Love Story is described as one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's "most powerful novels to date"--though he had been dead six years when the dictionary went to press.

The book tells us that The Canterbury Tales were written between 1343 and 1400, even though Chaucer was born in 1343.

Dickens' Bleak House is said to have followed Great Expectations. In fact, it was published nearly a decade earlier.

"Kipling urged U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in 1899 'to take up the white man's burden.' " Roosevelt didn't become president until 1901.