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ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSKa-Nefer-Nefer Mask: St. Louis Art Museum vs U.S. ForfeitureKa-Nefer-Nefer at SLAM: forfeiture failed on procedure—provenance care continues; not tabloid heist fact.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSCyrus Cylinder: British Museum Object and Political AfterlivesBM Cyrus Cylinder is Achaemenid foundation text—Charter of rights is modern afterlife, not cuneiform fact.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSTeotihuacan's Feathered Serpent TunnelThe tunnel was told as a royal tomb. INAH published a closed conduit and offerings, and no named king.
AVIATIONBoeing 737 MAX Certification FailuresMCAS was left out of the manuals. Level B training kept a common type rating, so MCAS simulator time was not required.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSDanske Bank Estonia Money LaunderingBruun & Hjejle, Danish FSA, and DOJ show group knowledge and a delayed stop—not a Tallinn surprise.
CRYPTOZOOLOGYThe Flying Serpent of Dos Palmas (1882)A flying serpent over Dos Palmas in 1882? The whole case is one unsigned item in the Los Angeles Daily Times.
SCIENCE & SPACEThe Hutchinson EffectAdherents say John Hutchison's fields lift metal; the Army found no records of 1983 work its officer says it paid for.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESSecret Facilities and the Data Wipe ControversyWolfe recalled a Moon-base mosaic, Hare a lab airbrushing prints; NASA searchers say Apollo 11 tapes were likely erased.
ESPIONAGEThe Mitrokhin ArchiveMitrokhin's notes sit at Cambridge: open typescripts, closed notebooks, ISC process paper.
Operation NorthwoodsIn 1962 the Joint Chiefs proposed staged attacks as a pretext to invade Cuba; the memo stayed secret until 1997.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESThe Face on Mars and Viking ImagingViking 035A72 looked like a face. NASA’s 1976 caption called shadows. MGS and HiRISE returned a mesa.
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation MincemeatIn 1943 Britain floated a corpse with fake invasion plans. Operation Mincemeat worked better than fiction.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYExxon Climate Research and DenialExxon's scientists warned bosses in 1977 that fossil fuels would warm the planet, then Exxon sold the public doubt.
SCIENCE & SPACEAngkor After LiDAR: The Hydraulic City ReassessedEvans lidar + UNESCO: greater Angkor as hydraulic urban complex—documented remote sensing, not temple-only mystique.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSKhufu’s Boat Pits at Giza (Documented Finds, Not ScanPyramids)1954 solar bark pits at Giza are documented finds—not ScanPyramids voids.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSStaffordshire Hoard: Detectorist Find, PAS, and the Anglo-Saxon Gold ShockStaffordshire Hoard: detectorist → PAS/Treasure → museum custody; documented Anglo-Saxon find trail.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSJames Alefantis, Comet Art, and Symbol-Mapping ClaimsPublic Comet murals and posts were mapped into trafficking codes. The artist denies it..
The Poisoned Alcohol of ProhibitionFederal rules put wood alcohol in industrial alcohol; Norris blamed the government for deaths; others blamed drinkers.
ESPIONAGEThe Rockefeller Commission (1975)Ford’s June 1975 Rockefeller Commission put CIA domestic excesses on paper before Church finished.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Euphronios Krater and the Met–Italy Repatriation AccordThe Met bought the Euphronios krater while a fresh-tomb origin was denied. Italy took it back.