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13-year-old finds mistake at art exhibit of Metropolitan Museum

New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) is one of the world's premier destinations for artistic and historical exhibitions. But this epicenter of worldly culture is not above admitting the occasional mistake. Even when the correction comes from one curious 13-year-old boy. The Hartford Courant reports that 13-year-old Benjamin Lerman Coady found an error in the Met's Byzantine Gallery during a recent visit. The seventh-grader is a fledgling history buff who recently studied the Byzantine Empire in school. While checking some of the dates on the map, Coady noticed that sections featuring Spain and Africa were missing. Before leaving the museum, Coady attempted to inform the museum that the map was inaccurate. "The front desk didn't believe me," he told the paper. "I'm only a kid." However, Coady received an email from the museum's senior vice president for external affairs, notifying him that his request was being ...

New World Trade Center Rise in Minutes

In a matter of days, One World Trade Center could be the tallest building in Manhattan and one of the tallest in the world. The building is expected to be taller than New York's iconic Empire State Building, which currently rises 1,250 feet to the 102nd floor observation deck. One World Trade is being built on the site of the original World Trade Center towers - or Twin Towers. They were the tallest buildings in the city, but were destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, in which an estimated 3,000 people were killed. The progression of construction on One World Trade can be seen in a two-minute, time-lapse video from EarthCam, the international webcam technology company. Construction is estimated to be finished in 2013 or 2014. One World Trade Center will stand 1,776 feet tall. The construction began six years ago. One hundred floors have been built so far, and four more remain before the tower is completed. The site also is home to 4 World Trade Center a...