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The projectiles went off on Saturday from the East coast town of Wonsan in the direction of the Sea of Japan (known in the Koreas as the East Sea), Yonhap news agency reported, quoting South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), which initially misidentified the objects as ballistic missiles.
His wife, Hannah Pham (who was not in the film), was misidentified as Jae W.
"The Parent Trap," the interview accompanying the issues's playscript, Cry it Out, misidentified the theatre then presenting the play and where Dominique Morisseau sits on the board.
In a statement, reacting to media reports about the error, the commissioner said the misidentified remains had been unearthed in the south of the island.
In response to a claim made by researchers that the men in the photo had been misidentified, the Marine Corps assembled a review panel containing military historians as well as active-duty and retired Marines to investigate the matter.
Worker two misinterpreted the information passed to him and misidentified the canopy jettison handle as the canopy lock/unlock handle.
Morgan, in turn, criticized King's ratings, posting a clip where King famously misidentified addressed Ringo Starr as "George,'' and writing, "Get over it, you daft old goat.''
The misidentified cartridge appears to be, in reality, either a .30 Mauser or 7.62 x 2.5.
Commonly misidentified as ancestor figures or grave markers, the dance puppets help to dispel the myth that there is no figural art in East Africa.
On page 48 of the April-June 2012 issue, the years on two images (B and C) from the Ansel Adams Fiat Lux Collection at UC Riverside/California Museum of Photography were misidentified. The photographs were taken in 1966.
We have endeavored to be sure that published peer-reviewed consensus science on definition and testing methods, which properly differentiate minerals, are used so that common rock-forming minerals are not inadvertently misidentified as dangerous asbestos.
In the April-May 2010 issue, the Musqueam Nation was mistakenly identified as the Cowichan Nation in a sidebar to the article "Saving David Thompson," while Prince Rupert was misidentified in the main story as the location where explorer Alexander Mackenzie famously reached the Pacific.
Accompanying previous Western Mail articles we have seen misidentified photographs of, among others, a bee fly masquerading as a bee and an ichneumon fly pretending to be a common wasp.