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The Nayirah TestimonyA girl named only as Nayirah told a caucus of babies taken from incubators; she was the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter.
ALT HISTORYÇatalhöyük: From Mellaart’s Fame to Hodder’s Reflexive DigÇatalhöyük: Mellaart to Hodder’s reflexive dig—documented Neolithic urbanism, not goddess absolutism.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSAntarctica Hidden HistoryA Nazi base, a Highjump battle, a pyramid in the ice? Antarctica's expedition records are open to read.
HISTORICAL EVENTSAgent OrangeFor years the VA denied that Agent Orange made Vietnam veterans sick, until Congress wrote the link into law in 1991.
ALT HISTORYNok Culture Terracottas: Goethe University Chronology ResetGoethe/DFG Nok work resets terracotta chronology with archaeobotany—not colonial mystery-clay myths.
PARANORMAL & UNEXPLAINEDChaco Canyon Roads and Archaeoastronomy DebatesChaco roads documented NPS engineering; archaeoastronomy overclaims stay contested at L1—not alien surveyors.
PLANETARY ANOMALIES1991 VG ObjectWas 1991 VG a probe? ESA recovered it in 2017 and found none of the drift a hollow craft would show.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSPriam’s Treasure: Schliemann, Berlin, and the Pushkin TrailSchliemann's Priam label is his claim. Berlin calls the gold its property; Moscow does not treat it as loot to return.
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTSStonehenge Bluestone Quarries in the Preseli HillsParker Pearson's team traced Stonehenge bluestones to Preseli quarries at Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin.
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONSThe Kensington Runestone Debate1898 Kensington slab is real. 1362 Norse Minnesota voyage stays contested—not proven colony.
HEALTH & MEDICINEThe Bhopal Gas DisasterManagement supplied no usable warning about the gas that left tank 610 on the night of 2-3 December 1984.
ALT HISTORYPetra’s Nabataean Hydraulic EngineeringPetra’s Nabataean water systems—UNESCO/Jordan engineering record; not Indiana Jones treasury mystique.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSWIPP February 2014 Radiation ReleaseLANL drum 68660’s nitrate-salt/organic chemistry shut the nation’s only TRU geologic repository for years.
ALT HISTORYRongorongo: Easter Island's Undeciphered ScriptHevesy tied rongorongo to the Indus script in 1932. Ferrara's 2024 wood dates point to an island invention instead.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSGreat Zimbabwe and Colonial Denial ArchaeologyColonial archaeology refused to credit Africans for Great Zimbabwe's stone city. The walls outlasted the lie.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Family Jewels: CIA's 1973 Self-Inventory of IllegalitiesThe CIA ordered a list of what might fall outside its charter, and the public did not get that list in 1973.
HISTORICAL EVENTSThe 1991 Gulf War Oil Well FiresEPA interagency monitoring and DoD GulfLINK reports document the sabotage burn—and the contested smoke-risk ledger.
BIBLEGiant of KandaharA giant body was claimed near Kandahar, and the accounts do not establish that body.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSNugan Hand BankNugan Hand collapsed in 1980. Stewart’s Royal Commission mapped the wreckage—not a sealed finding that CIA ran the bank.
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.