List of Common Misconceptions
Somehow I end up reading many of these backwards, due to the wording. When I see a "list of common misconceptions" containing bullet points like: "Christopher Columbus's efforts to obtain support for his voyages were not hampered by a European belief in a flat Earth." and "Napoleon Bonaparte was not especially short.", my immediate interpretation is that these listed claims are misconceptions (they appear in a <i>list of misconceptions</i> after all), and so the opposite is actually true: Christopher Columbus <i>was</i> hampered by a European belief in a flat earth, and Napoleon Bonaparte <i>was</i> especially short.<p>I do quickly realize it was backwards, but it reads very weirdly to me. If it's a list of misconceptions, shouldn't the misconceptions be the things in the list, with the corrections following each one as explanatory text?