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GOVERNMENT & POLITICSCyrus Cylinder: British Museum Object and Political AfterlivesBM Cyrus Cylinder is Achaemenid foundation text—Charter of rights is modern afterlife, not cuneiform fact.
ALT HISTORYThera / Santorini Eruption Dating: Radiocarbon vs Egyptology (Not Atlantis)Thera/Santorini dating: radiocarbon vs Egyptology offset stays contested—chronology fight, not Atlantis.
HISTORICAL EVENTSUnited Fruit and Guatemala 1954CIA's PBSUCCESS toppled Guatemala's Arbenz in 1954 while United Fruit's land fight sat in the background.
ALT HISTORYMapungubwe: Gold Burials vs Colonial Denial HistoriographyMapungubwe UNESCO List 1099 gold burials—documented Limpopo kingdom vs colonial denial historiography.
FINANCE & BANKINGBretton Woods Exit and the Nixon ShockCamp David closed the gold window on purpose—FRUS shows managed exit, not accidental panic.
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSNazca Lines Beyond Ancient-Astronaut FolkloreVon Däniken called the lines a landing strip. They are Nasca paths. Why they were made is still open.
The Tuskegee Syphilis ExperimentFor 40 years the Public Health Service told Black men it treated their "bad blood" while it withheld syphilis treatment.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDCatalina Island UFO Reports, 1949–1955Believers see a pattern in four Catalina sightings; the files call two a probable meteor and Jupiter and leave two open.
ALT SCIENCEFlat Earth NASA Distrust and ISS Footage ArgumentsISS footage distrust: fisheye, harnesses, no stars, compositing—beside NASA/ESA doors; no dunk, no baptism.
ESPIONAGEOperation Holystone: Submarine Spy Missions in Soviet WatersU.S. attack subs ran Holystone in Soviet waters. Hersh named it in 1975; Ford lawyers debated confirmation risk.
ALT HISTORYPersepolis Fortification Archive: Oriental Institute Tablets and Rubin v. IranRubin tried to break up the loaned Persepolis tablets to pay a judgment. The Supreme Court left the archive immune.
HISTORICAL EVENTSOperation MincemeatIn 1943 Britain floated a corpse with fake invasion plans. Operation Mincemeat worked better than fiction.
ALT HISTORYSeahenge (Holme I): The Timber Circle Exposed by the TideSeahenge was lifted from the tide to save the wood, not left to the sea. What the circle was for is still not settled.
The Philadelphia Experiment; Project RainbowThe Navy record denies a 1943 invisibility and teleport of USS Eldridge; degaussing is not that claim.
CONSCIOUSNESS & SPIRITUALITYThe Mahatma Letters: Fabrication and Frame-Up ClaimsThe Mahatma Letters controversy turns on disputed authorship, not on whether a spiritual belief is itself a conspiracy.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSProject West Ford: Copper Needles in OrbitLincoln Lab lofted copper dipoles to bounce X-band. The belt worked briefly; NASA still tracks the clumps.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSKennewick Man / The Ancient One and NAGPRACourts refused affiliation, and study went ahead, because the bones were treated as too old to trace.
HISTORICAL EVENTSCascajal Block: Olmec Writing Debate (Not the Colossal Heads)Cascajal Block: Olmec writing debate—Science 2006 + skepticism; documented; ≠ colossal heads.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation Popeye Weather ModificationPopeye seeded Indochina clouds in secret. Senate 1974 forced the sortie paper out.
PLANETARY ANOMALIESThe Iapetus Equatorial RidgeHoagland called the Iapetus ridge an artificial wall. Cassini images and natural formation models read it otherwise.