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Corrected entry: When Blackthorne is steering the Japanese galley duing a storm, Rodrigues goes forward to tell him how to steer around the rocks ahead. At one point, Rodrigues yells, "Hard a-port!" At the time, the term for the left side of a ship was "larboard." The term was replaced with "port" in the mid-1800's because "larboard" was easily confused with "starboard."

Correction: As is standard in historically-set movies, present-day language and terminology have been used so that a modern audience can understand what's being said. This is a standard movie convention and is not considered a mistake.

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The Compassionate Society - S2-E1

Corrected entry: At the start, Hacker's driver says that the hospital has 500 administrators. Just afterwards, Bernard tells Hacker that the correct figure is 340. Then for the rest of the episode, the figure goes back to 500.

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Correction: Wrong. Bernard tells Hacker there are 342 *administrators*, and adds that there are a further 170 *ancillary staff*. That adds up to 512, which rounds down to 500. Whenever anyone refers to the staff for the rest of the episode they simply refer to the *workers*, meaning the total staff.

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