A 12-year-old British schoolboy “has uncovered several mistakes in the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica — regarded by readers as an authority on everything,” notes Justin Parkinson in a BBC News wire story. Lucian George, who goes to Highgate Junior School in London, found numerous mistakes and complained to the editors, who wrote back thanking him for “pointing out several errors and misleading statements.” Among the errors George uncovered: “the terrain of the European bison.” Says Parkinson, “He argued successfully that it encompassed parts of Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovakia and Belarus — not just Poland.”