Contrary to a quote in “Why the North Atlantic’s greatest survivors are again facing extinction” (News, last week, page 14) not all of the 16 right whales found dead this year had become entangled in heavy fishing gear. Some had died after being struck by shipping.
We said the wind turbine blade placed earlier this year in Queen Victoria Square, Hull, was a “28ft rotor blade”. We meant 28-tonne. It is actually 246ft (75 metres) long. (“We look at the city with new eyes”, New Review, 19 November, page 13).
While technically Cream played their last gig in 1968 (On this Day quiz, New Review, last week, page 40), they reformed 37 years later to play four nights at the Royal Albert Hall (a return to their farewell venue) in May 2005 and went on to appear for three nights at the last US venue they played in 1968, New York’s Madison Square Garden.
A piece on exhibitions celebrating the androgynous glamour of Marlene Dietrich said her 1930 film The Blue Angel “became notorious for a scene in which a tailcoated Dietrich suddenly kisses a woman in her audience”. We meant another 1930 Dietrich film, Morocco (“Still modern after all these years…” In Focus, last week, page 26).
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