History through the Indy's eyes

Red faces at the Independent on Friday morning, as its front-page story on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan manages to misplace the conflicts by, oh, only about 100 years. "After the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that defined the first decade of the 20th Century," begins the second paragraph of the splash story, an error that would mean the conflicts took place even before the first and second world wars. Fortunately the error was spotted and corrected for further editions – there by the grace of God go us all.