Why do people give me funny looks when I say that more kids should be like this? There is nothing wrong with precocious brightness.
Lucian disputed the whereabouts of the Polish part of the Belovezhskaya Forest. According to the encyclopaedia, it lies in the Bialystok, Suwalki and Lomza provinces. But Suwalki and Lomza provinces have not existed since 1998. And, even when they did, the whole Polish section of the forest – which extends into Belarus – was in Bialystok.
… Another of Lucian’s bugbears was the terrain of the European bison. He argued successfully that it encompassed parts of Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovakia and Belarus – not just Poland.
After Lucian had written to the encyclopaedia with his complaints, senior editor Anita Wolff, based in the US, revealed that a geography specialist was working on a “major revision” of its Polish coverage.
As for the EB, it contains Madonna now, so we shouldn’t be too surprised about dropping standards.
