The folks who bring you the Encyclopaedia Britannica now run daily Web-based safaris into the world of information, explaining the obscure and elaborating on the famous.

In the studio's defense, Carroll was a pretty twisted writer whose work the Encyclopaedia Britannica calls "nonsense literature of the highest order."

A Schoolboy with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors in the latest - the fifteenth - edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.