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ALT HISTORYTerracotta Army Discovery, 1974March 1974 Lintong well dig → Qin pits → UNESCO 441. Prestige is managed; alien-garrison slogans are not.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Getty Kouros Forgery ControversyGetty Kouros: 1985 buy, dual authenticity label, 2018 Villa removal—prestige vs forgery limbo.
ALT HISTORYMerneptah Stele: Epigraphy of “Israel” in Pharaoh’s Victory TextMerneptah Stele JE 31408: Israel ethnonym in Year-5 hymn—documented Cairo epigraphy, not ballot politics.
ALT HISTORYLord of Sipán: Walter Alva and the Moche Royal Tombs1987 Sipán: Alva’s salvage archaeology raced a looting-to-market pipeline into Moche royal tombs.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSParthenon Sculptures / Elgin Marbles: The Legal-Diplomatic TrailBritain calls the removal lawful by firman and the 1816 purchase. Greece calls it a taking from the building.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Gulf of Tonkin IncidentHow much of the August 1964 Tonkin clash was fog, fear, or a story built to widen the war?
The Pais PatentsNavy patents describe an inertial-mass craft; the filings and a spin test do not say that such a craft flew.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSBarings Bank Collapse (Nick Leeson)BoBS HC 673: unauthorized Singapore losses in 88888—and a comprehensive control failure, not one-man magic.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSIran-ContraIran-Contra sold arms to Tehran and diverted cash to Contras. Tower Commission pages still sting.
ALT SCIENCEPiltdown Man: Anatomy of an Archaeological Hoax1912 Geological Society dawn-man; 1953 museum exposure; 2016 RSOS names Dawson. Documented fraud.
ALT HISTORYCoptic Magical Papyri: Würzburg Corpus Beyond Nag HammadiWürzburg catalogues Coptic magical papyri as ritual texts, not a Nag Hammadi leftover or superstition without weight.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSTimes Beach Dioxin EvacuationTimes Beach roads got dioxin waste oil. After the flood, CDC advice emptied the town.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSSpirit Cooking: Abramović, the Podestas, and Ritual ReadingsMoMA holds Spirit Cooking; WikiLeaks holds a Podesta dinner email. Ritual baptism refused.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Great Sphinx and the Water Erosion AnomalyWater-erosion claims push the Sphinx thousands of years older than Old Kingdom timelines allow.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDSkinwalker Ranch: The BAASS Utah Ranch Report, 2010Eleven witnesses told a Pentagon-paid team of a dog-like creature that ran upright near Utah's Skinwalker Ranch.
ALT HISTORYSerpent Mound Dating Wars: Adena vs Fort AncientAdena vs Fort Ancient 14C fights at Serpent Mound. Contested dating—no hollow-earth.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe UN Emblem Azimuthal Map as Flat-Earth EvidenceAdherents read the UN polar azimuthal emblem as a flat map. UN text calls it a projection. Contested.
The Nayirah TestimonyA girl named only as Nayirah told a caucus of babies taken from incubators; she was the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSRosetta Stone: Decipherment Engine and Repatriation DebateBritain’s title claim is the 1801 treaty. Reading the stone is not a return order.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe EC-121 Shootdown (15 April 1969)15 Apr 1969: MiGs down Deep Sea 129; 31 dead. Hard public account of loss and tracks lagged—now NSA/FRUS L1.