However, rest assured that it is not just Google that is invariably unerring; Wikipedia, the champion that is so uncannily immune to shortcomings, presents its own case of colorphotographitis.

1 The presumable case of identical twins filenames

The story begins with James Duckworth, an English businessman and MP… wait, wait, what am I doing? No-one in their sane mind is interested in certain Mr Duckworth! OK, OK, I promise it will most definitely be short. The only thing that matters is that there is his contemporary photo:

Only it is too small. „Go on, click it!” says the little devil inside me. I’ll surely find a larger version there…

And sure I did:

They are lying to us! What are the Illuminati trying to hide from the sheeple? This is a clear proof they had not just color cameras, but also headsets with microphones in the 19th century! And if they had this technology hundred years ago, only God knows what the ancient Egyptians possessed, what knowledge the Maya wielded, the Aztecs… the Atlantis!

OK, seriously now, this error actually persisted on Wikipedia for years. Again, it was too cute for me to fix it. No harm done and anyone who clicks through hopefully will have their day a bit brighter.

2 Where Russian Explorer Goes 1, We Go All

And then there is this peculiar case of a Baltic German Russian Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke, whose article also contains a contemporary portrait!

In an unrelated case of another Russian explorer Mikhail Vasilyev, he seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to the above:

Alas! ’tis ain’t a mystery, merely a case of gross negligence that, again, persisted for years. The esteemed gentleman on the picture is, according to the fine print, is

and after year and a half he made his less-than-hasty exit from the non-corresponding English wikipedia article, courtesy of a presumably Russian editor Kolya Muratov. The mystery, though, is – why is he not yet absent from the Russian mutation?