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ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Antikythera Eclipse Prediction MechanismThe out-of-time alien-computer claim meets a Hellenistic eclipse gear train. A model is not the original machine.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe Voynich ManuscriptVoynich stays contested: cipher, hoax, or unread language. Beinecke holds MS 408. No proven translation.
SCIENCE & SPACEArtemis Program: Continuing the Deception?Adherents say Artemis continues a staged Apollo story; NASA records print an uncrewed 2022 flight and a crewed 2026 one.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSPetra’s Nabataean Hydraulic EngineeringPetra’s Nabataean water systems—UNESCO/Jordan engineering record; not Indiana Jones treasury mystique.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSFlint Water CrisisFlint switched water sources in 2014. Lead followed. State and EPA timelines still look like a cover delay.
SURVEILLANCERoom 641AAT&T said it obeyed the law, but a technician's papers showed a locked NSA room copying web traffic in San Francisco.
SCIENCE & SPACEAngkor After LiDAR: The Hydraulic City ReassessedEvans lidar + UNESCO: greater Angkor as hydraulic urban complex—documented remote sensing, not temple-only mystique.
FINANCE & BANKINGBernard Madoff and the SEC's Missed WarningsThe statements showed trades that were not trades, and the SEC exams did not catch it.
FINANCE & BANKINGSociété Générale / Jérôme Kerviel Rogue TradingSocGen lost billions on unauthorized Kerviel positions. Courts convicted him and later shared civil fault..
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSMachu Picchu Artifacts: Yale, Bingham, and the Peru ReturnYale called the collection a lawful export. A 2010 accord, not a judgment, sent it to Casa Concha.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSKoh Ker / Cambodian Statue Repatriations from U.S. MuseumsKoh Ker ICE/SDNY/Met repatriations—documented provenance care, not blanket “all Khmer art stolen” smear.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYSiemens Global Bribery Settlements (2008)Siemens’s 2008 FCPA pleas and SEC disgorgement topped $1.6B. Papers show a bribery system—not one rogue payment.
HEALTH & MEDICINEDr. Mary's MonkeyEdward Haslam ties Mary Sherman's 1964 murder to a secret monkey-virus lab; police files and pathologists differ.
SCIENCE & SPACECastle Bravo Fallout (1 March 1954)The early public line said the exposure was small, planned, and already over.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSMapungubwe: Gold Burials vs Colonial Denial HistoriographyMapungubwe UNESCO List 1099 gold burials—documented Limpopo kingdom vs colonial denial historiography.
FINANCE & BANKINGLong-Term Capital Management Near-FailureFRBNY herded a private LTCM consortium under systemic-risk theory—no public money, official room.
ALT HISTORYGate of the Sun at Tiwanaku: Monumental Archaeology Beyond the Calendar StonesTiwanaku Gate of the Sun: UNESCO/AFCP monument file—not the calendar-stones sibling.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSAtlantis, Lemuria, and MuAtlantis, Lemuria and Mu: sunken continents, or three ideas with named authors and dates?
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSMorgantina Silver: Met–Italy Return to AidoneThe Met called the purchase good faith. The digging record says otherwise. The silver is at Aidone.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Abu Ghraib Taguba ReportTaguba wrote systemic criminal abuse at Abu Ghraib; Fay/Jones widened the aperture to intelligence and command.