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Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Russian Mistranslation

The world's first nuclear reactor, built by Enrico Fermi, was built under a squash court.

Apparently, for years, owing to mistranslation, Russian physicists thought it had been done in a 'pumpkin field'.
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