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Steve Monson wrote:

> > (Edward Rice) wrote:
> >> Encyclopedia articles can be every bit as wrong as Usenet postings.

> Note that Edward did not say that there was such a plenitude of errors
> in the encyclopedia as on the Usenet, just that they could be just as much
> in error. It's quite true.

Back in 1970 I checked 7 different encyclopedias and 36 other 
references for information on Mt. St. Helens. (If anyone is 
interested, my database on Cascade volcanoes is now up to 400
different articles.) Six of the seven encyclopedias stated that
Mt. St. Helens is extinct. As for Mt. Rainier, all of them listed
it as being extinct, although I know for a fact that it erupted
at least 5 times in the 19th. century and is considered by the US 
Geological Survey to be both active and potentially very dangerous.

Charles Wm. "also active and potentially dangerous" Dimmick

"...and some rin up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stanes
to pieces wi' hammers like sae mony road-makers run daft -- They say
it is to see how the warld was made!"