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GOVERNMENT & POLITICSGreat Zimbabwe and Colonial Denial ArchaeologyColonial archaeology refused to credit Africans for Great Zimbabwe's stone city. The walls outlasted the lie.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRYThe Sugar Industry's CHD PlaybookSRF paid for a 1967 NEJM CHD review that buried sucrose. The sponsor line stayed off the page.
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.
RELIGIONGospel of Jesus's Wife: The Modern-Provenance ProblemA scrap reading “my wife” acquired an ancient identity before its modern ownership story came apart.
ALT HISTORYLinear B Decipherment: Ventris, Chadwick, and Mycenaean GreekLinear B was denied as Greek for decades. Ventris and Chadwick read it as Mycenaean Greek.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Abu Ghraib Taguba ReportTaguba wrote systemic criminal abuse at Abu Ghraib; Fay/Jones widened the aperture to intelligence and command.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Norwegian Rocket Incident (Black Brant Scare, 1995)A Norwegian aurora rocket looked like an SLBM to Russian radars. The pad flight was fine. The warning system was not.
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.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSOperation Popeye Weather ModificationPopeye seeded Indochina clouds in secret. Senate 1974 forced the sortie paper out.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Murder of Princess DianaMohamed Al Fayed called Diana's death murder; French judges, Operation Paget and the 2008 inquest found otherwise.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLehman Brothers Repo 105Valukas: Repo 105 dressed the balance sheet at quarter-end—an accounting disguise, not a footnote.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSWIPP February 2014 Radiation ReleaseLANL drum 68660’s nitrate-salt/organic chemistry shut the nation’s only TRU geologic repository for years.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDThe CIA’s Project Star Gate and Mars ReconstructionAdherents take a 1984 STAR GATE session as a view of Mars; the 1995 review called its operational use unsubstantiated.
ALT HISTORYTel Dan Stele: “House of David” and the 1990s Epigraphy ShockTel Dan bytdwd stele: documented 1990s epigraphy—reading debates stay open; stone stays on the table.
Acoustic Cyber-EspionagePapers recover keys, printouts, and an RSA key from sound, and name no secret successor.
ALT HISTORYTartariaTartaria: a lost world empire buried by mud, or old map names, temporary fairs and raised streets?
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBarry 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.
QUANTUM BIOLOGYCellular Memory (The Transplanted Soul)Transplant lore says new hearts can arrive with old tastes, fears, and skills the recipient never learned.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSTimes Beach Dioxin EvacuationTimes Beach roads got dioxin waste oil. After the flood, CDC advice emptied the town.
ALT HISTORYOxyrhynchus Papyri: Grenfell, Hunt, and the Egypt Exploration Society CorpusGrenfell/Hunt EES digs built the Oxyrhynchus corpus; Oxford/Bodleian still publish it.