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ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSHobby Lobby, Cuneiform Tablets, and the Museum of the Bible ScandalsPurchases were treated as a lawful private buy. Forfeiture papers alleged false customs labels and an illegal import.
SCIENCE & SPACEAngkor After LiDAR: The Hydraulic City ReassessedEvans lidar + UNESCO: greater Angkor as hydraulic urban complex—documented remote sensing, not temple-only mystique.
HEALTH & MEDICINELab Leak vs "Proximal Origin": The February 2020 Call TrailFebruary 2020 calls and emails precede Nature Medicine's Proximal Origin paper. Document the trail..
HISTORICAL EVENTSBarry Jennings, Michael Hess, and the WTC 7 Explosion-Testimony ClusterTwo city officials described explosions inside WTC 7. NIST calls debris and fire. Both doors stay open.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSJericho’s Walls: Kenyon, Wood, and Radiocarbon Calibration FightsKenyon dated Jericho’s fall away from Joshua. Wood pushed back. No conquest stamp.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPodesta Emails and the Pizza-Code ReadingThe chairman's emails were posted, and readers treated cheese pizza in them as a code.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSNess of Brodgar: Orkney’s Neolithic Complex Between the CirclesThe Ness of Brodgar was a walled Neolithic complex, not empty land between the circles.
ESPIONAGEAble Archer 83 and the Soviet War ScareAble Archer 83 is documented; the 1990 PFIAB and the 1984 SNIE still disagree on how close the scare came.
ESPIONAGEQuill: The First Orbital Imaging Radar SatelliteQuill flew orbital SAR in December 1964—pointed only at America—then waited decades for NRO to say the word.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSSpirit Cave and the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone NAGPRA ReturnAffiliation was refused because the remains were called too old. Control passed in 2016, not by a DNA finding.
ESPIONAGEThe Walker Spy Ring and the Navy Crypto CollapseWalker’s ring sold Navy crypto keying to Moscow for years. Pelton sold Ivy Bells—sibling wound, not the same sale.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESOumuamua (The Scout)Oumuamua arrived in 2017 as an interstellar oddball. Some still call it a scout, not a rock.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSMonte Verde and the Fight Over America's First PeoplesClovis-first denied a pre-Clovis Americas. The 1997 visit accepted one Monte Verde layer, not a first date.
ESPIONAGEProject MINARET: The NSA Watch-List ProgramChurch Committee and declassified NSA histories document MINARET—a 1967–1973 watch-list SIGINT program..
AVIATIOND-21 Tagboard and Senior BowlTagboard killed its M-21 mothership in 1966; Senior Bowl’s China shots never delivered usable Lop Nor film.
AVIATIONKorean Air Lines Flight 007KAL 007's shootdown file is FRUS Controlled Fury beside ICAO deviation findings—not UFO lore.
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.
FINANCE & BANKINGGalleon / Raj Rajaratnam Insider TradingSDNY wiretaps and a 14-count verdict sank Galleon’s tip network—docket, not tabloid.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Kensington Runestone Debate1898 Kensington slab is real. 1362 Norse Minnesota voyage stays contested—not proven colony.
HEALTH & MEDICINEEdgewood Arsenal Human ExperimentsFor decades Edgewood Arsenal dosed soldiers with chemicals and drugs. GAO later admitted the scale.