Lafayette's Ancestor to Auction his Famous Medal from George Washington
The International Herald Tribune is a famous and usually prestigious newspaper that published an article yesterday by Glenn Collins under the headline of "Lafayette's Ancestor to Auction his Famous Medal from George Washington." Excuse me? His ancestor? I'd like to meet this "ancestor" who obviously is more than 250 years old!
That has to be embarrassing for the newspaper. Don't they have editors who know the difference between an ancestor and a descendant?
Anyway, if you can ignore the blatant typo error in the headline, you can find a rather interesting story at http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/28/america/28lafayette.php.
My thanks to Denice for telling me about this story.
The link above "says" the right thing, but actually points to a non existent page. Here's the correct link (I hope)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/28/america/28lafayette.php
Roger
Posted by: theKiwi | November 29, 2007 at 04:19 PM
The link in the article worked for me. Using Windows XP, IE 6 sp2.
Posted by: Nancy | November 30, 2007 at 08:19 AM
The period at the end of the sentence may have affected the first link, although it did not affect it for me and worked.
Posted by: Susan Daily | November 30, 2007 at 09:21 AM
How can something be "usually prestigious?"
Posted by: Dino (All Dino, All the Time) | November 30, 2007 at 09:55 AM
In my mind, they just lost their "prestige."
Posted by: Dick Eastman | November 30, 2007 at 11:56 AM
Heh heh!
Posted by: Peggy LeBlanc | November 30, 2007 at 01:29 PM