City to Correct Einstein Misspelling

[JohnKleeb]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=6&u=/nm/odd_misspellings_dc
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Livermore, a California city that prides itself as a center of advanced science, is spending thousands of dollars to correct many misspelled names on a city library mosaic, including that of Albert Einstein, a city official said on Thursday.



The $40,000 mosaic outside the San Francisco area city's main library misspells the names of Einstein, the father of modern physics, William Shakespeare and other historical heavyweights. The city voted this week to spend $6,000 to fix the artwork.


"There were some members of the community who felt very strongly it had to be corrected," said city council member Lorraine Dietrich.


Livermore is home to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory which does work on the U.S. nuclear weapons program.


Maria Alquilar, the Miami artist who made the mosaic, said the errors would have been discovered sooner had city officials inspected the mosaic closely before its installation as she had requested.

[miss_kitty]

1. What? She can't spell names off a list they must've given her?

of course, as usual :eyes: I am assuming facts not in evidence, non-lawyer who knows nothing that I am but:

"Maria Alquilar, the Miami artist who made the mosaic, said the errors would have been discovered sooner had city officials inspected the mosaic closely before its installation as she had requested."

I mean, she didn't just pull the alleged names out of her alleged ass, did she?

[jmowreader]

2. The piece looks like the north end of a southbound freeper

so anything is possible.