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DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCESPaul is DeadA 1969 rumor said Paul McCartney had died and been replaced; press doors print the claim and print denials.
HEALTH & MEDICINEThalidomideThalidomide was sold as a safe sedative until Frances Kelsey and birth-defect counts stopped the myth.
FINANCE & BANKINGDeutsche Bank Russia Mirror TradesMoscow–London mirrors moved billions into dollars. NYDFS and FCA wrote the settlement; DOJ did not close beside them.
ESPIONAGEThe Zinoviev LetterCAB 27/254 could not authenticate the 1924 letter; FCO historian Bennett's 1999 Note treats forgery as the best reading.
FINANCE & BANKINGGalleon / Raj Rajaratnam Insider TradingSDNY wiretaps and a 14-count verdict sank Galleon’s tip network—docket, not tabloid.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT15-Minute CitiesAdherents call 15-minute cities a lockdown plan; Moreno, Paris, and Oxford's councils print a plan for services nearby.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSWatson Brake: Middle Archaic Mounds Before Poverty PointSaunders Science Middle Archaic mounds before Poverty Point—documented Indigenous labor, not civilization-rank folklore.
FINANCE & BANKINGHalliburton / KBR Nigeria Bonny Island FCPAKBR pleaded guilty to Bonny Island FCPA bribery in 2009. The docket is Nigeria LNG—not an Iraq meme.
The Lost City of Troy and the Epic of HomerSchliemann named the mound Troy. Which layer is Homer's city, Troy II or a later one, stays unsettled.
BIOLOGYThe Genetic Paradox of the Ghost PopulationGeneticists keep finding ghost population DNA in humans. Adherents read it as a missing advanced race.
HISTORICAL EVENTSBAE Al-Yamamah and the SFO HaltSFO halted Al-Yamamah for security; Lords upheld it; OECD called the halt a Convention crisis.
HISTORICAL EVENTSWoburn Wells G & H / Anderson LitigationWoburn Wells G & H shut on TCE/PCE. Courts and epidemiology never fully locked step.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYLockheed Bribery Scandal and the Birth of the FCPASecret payments the filings did not show came first, and the foreign-bribery statute came after that record.
ESPIONAGEAldrich AmesAmes's plea and DoJ OIG summary document nine years of espionage and CIA–FBI coordination failure.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYLove CanalHooker's buried waste under Love Canal forced evacuations and helped invent Superfund politics.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESOumuamua (The Scout)Oumuamua arrived in 2017 as an interstellar oddball. Some still call it a scout, not a rock.
ESPIONAGEThe Black Book: Epstein's Contact Directory as Court ExhibitEpstein's Palm Beach contact directory entered court as an exhibit..
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSTerracotta Army Discovery, 1974March 1974 Lintong well dig → Qin pits → UNESCO 441. Prestige is managed; alien-garrison slogans are not.
ESPIONAGEOperation AjaxIn 1953 CIA and MI6 ran Operation Ajax to topple Iran's Mossadegh. A declassified history finally said so.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDPlaneta Encantado Mirlo Rojo CGI ScandalMirlo Rojo aired lunar images as proof; a critic names CGI work, and Benítez defends Imágenes inéditas.