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HEALTH & MEDICINEMinamata DiseaseMinamata’s chemistry was clear years before Tokyo’s 1968 consensus—and courts later shared liability with the state.
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSLos Astronautas de Yahvé: Biblical Theophany as PaleocontactThe fight is whether Los astronautas de Yavé reads biblical appearances as paleocontact, or only a birth thesis.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSOxyrhynchus Papyri: Grenfell, Hunt, and the Egypt Exploration Society CorpusGrenfell/Hunt EES digs built the Oxyrhynchus corpus; Oxford/Bodleian still publish it.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPodesta Emails and the Pizza-Code ReadingThe chairman's emails were posted, and readers treated cheese pizza in them as a code.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSMesha Stele / Moabite Stone: Louvre Provenance and ReconstructionLouvre AO 5066 Mesha Stele: shatter, squeeze, reconstruction—documented Moabite royal text.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDSomerton Man / Tamám ShudSomerton Man died on an Adelaide beach in 1948. Police exhumed him in 2021. The coroner has not closed the name.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSLinear B Decipherment: Ventris, Chadwick, and Mycenaean GreekLinear B was denied as Greek for decades. Ventris and Chadwick read it as Mycenaean Greek.
ESPIONAGEPan Am Flight 103 / Lockerbie Evidence ControversiesLockerbie's dead are settled fact. Megrahi's conviction survived appeals and SCCRC referral. The exhibits still argue.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTDuPont C8 and the PFAS Cover TrailDuPont’s C8 file became EPA’s record TSCA penalty—and a cover-trail about what reached the Agency when.
ESPIONAGEKH-9 Hexagon (and Gambit): Film-Return GiantsFilm-return Hexagon and Gambit stayed black on metrics while buckets still had to splash down—and sometimes vanish.
SURVEILLANCEThe AT&T Hemisphere ProgramHemisphere let agencies search AT&T call records on admin subpoenas. OIG and Senate ask if that fits the Constitution.
DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESJohn F. Kennedy AssassinationSixty years later, which file stack still best explains Dealey Plaza: CIA, Mafia, Cubans, or all of them?
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSIraq National Museum 2003: Looting, Investigation, and RecoveryIraq Museum 2003 looting + UNESCO/ICOM/DoS recovery—documented heritage crime, not war-porn.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLibby Montana Tremolite AsbestosGrace's Libby vermiculite mine dusted a town with amphibole—then came the first CERCLA PHE.
ESPIONAGERudolf Abel / Hollow Nickel CaseA hollow nickel and Hayhanen’s break led to Abel’s conviction—affirmed in 362 U.S. 217.
FINANCE & BANKINGUN Oil-for-Food Programme (Volcker Inquiry)Volcker's Oil-for-Food inquiry found UN mismanagement and Iraqi surcharge-kickback schemes.
CRYPTOZOOLOGYThe Flying Serpent of Dos Palmas (1882)In January 1882 the Los Angeles Times ran a front-page yarn about a winged serpent over Dos Palmas.
BIOLOGYThe Genetic Paradox of the Ghost PopulationGeneticists keep finding ghost population DNA in humans. Adherents read it as a missing advanced race.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSGhislaine Maxwell Trial Evidence Adherents CiteMaxwell's SDNY conviction rests on a checkable exhibit spine. Archive stays on docket—not viral lists.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSAidonia Treasure: Mycenaean Gold and the Ward Gallery Settlement1993 Ward Gallery offer → Greek suit → SPGH settlement → 1996 return of Aidonia Mycenaean gold.