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We shouldn't be too critical, the following quote was probably true back then.

I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them—one's a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn't work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question, and my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, "Too many connectios, try again later."




RIght now, if you google "Date of the Battle of Trafalgar", the first hit is wikipedia, which in google's excerpt tells you it was October 21, 1805.

The second hit is a commentary on this very article.




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