> Arthur is the longest-running kids animated series in history
No it isn't. Sandmännchen has been on the air for over 60 years.
No it isn't. Sandmännchen has been on the air for over 60 years.
There's a popular game, Timeline ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/128664/timeline ), involving placing events (represented on cards) in the proper chronological sequence. Due to modern sensitivities, many of the cards have titles of the form "The discovery of America (by Europeans)".
But mostly they don't. "Invention of the printing press", explicitly lacking the "(by Europeans)" rider, is located in the 15th century, several hundred years after the invention of the printing press. None of this stuff is hard to look up.
The printing press is a mechanical device which mass-produces books by pressing inked plates against paper. Movable type is just a way to construct printing plates. It makes no difference to the press.
I'm intrigued that you believe China invented movable type without inventing a press that could use it. But suffice it to say that while movable type did not catch on in China, printing and printing presses were huge.
That might have something to do with it. Or perhaps there was a missing ellipsis or other context that was lost.
But good call. There's a broad world outside of America that we oftentimes forget to include.
And I’m sure there are radio shows in Germany not paying attention to American media.
Here where I live I commonly see "touristic museums" and touristic places make claims that can be easily disproven by a google search and that is just not OK.
Imagine in a few decades some museum in US about media goes on to claim Arthur was the longest running kids show in the world and even link to npr as a source?
npr should have known better and put "In US" in their title.