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GOVERNMENT & POLITICSLibby Montana Tremolite AsbestosGrace's Libby vermiculite mine dusted a town with amphibole—then came the first CERCLA PHE.
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 Vela Incident (22 September 1979)Vela 6911 saw a double flash. Ruina said probably not. CIA paper said 90% plus. Verdict stays contested.
ESPIONAGEKosmos 954: Nuclear Spy Satellite Crash Over CanadaKosmos 954 fell over Canada on 24 Jan 1978. Moscow lagged. Morning Light found radioactive debris. No invented toll.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSIraq National Museum 2003: Looting, Investigation, and RecoveryIraq Museum 2003 looting + UNESCO/ICOM/DoS recovery—documented heritage crime, not war-porn.
ALT HISTORYThe Great Deluge1870s Mesopotamian digs pulled Gilgamesh flood tablets older than Genesis and restarted the deluge fight.
SCIENCE & SPACEProject A119The Air Force secretly studied a nuclear blast on the Moon, and the plan stayed hidden until its leader spoke in 2000.
HEALTH & MEDICINEMorgellons and Mask Fibres: What the Videos Do Not EstablishA moving thread in a mask does not establish a parasite, an implant or the cause of someone’s symptoms.
ESPIONAGEOperation CondorIn the 1970s Southern Cone dictatorships built Operation Condor as a cross-border kill-and-kidnap net.
SCIENCE & SPACERetrocausality in Quantum MechanicsAdherents say quantum eraser tests show the present rewriting the past; physicists split on whether anything goes back.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSThe Cambridge FiveBurgess/Maclean fled; Blunt confessed under immunity; Thatcher named him in 1979—Venona had bitten.
ESPIONAGEProject BLUEBIRDProject BLUEBIRD is the 1950 interrogation file; a hearing says it was renamed ARTICHOKE, apart from MKULTRA.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSGalleon / Raj Rajaratnam Insider TradingSDNY wiretaps and a 14-count verdict sank Galleon’s tip network—docket, not tabloid.
HISTORICAL EVENTSEbla Tablets: Discovery, Archives, and the Biblical ControversiesEbla’s tablets are real. Pettinato’s Sodom and Abraham claims were made, then challenged.
HEALTH & MEDICINEMinamata DiseaseMinamata’s chemistry was clear years before Tokyo’s 1968 consensus—and courts later shared liability with the state.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSIgor Gouzenko Defection and the Canadian Royal CommissionGouzenko’s 1945 Ottawa defection fed the 1946 Kellock–Taschereau report—Canadian primary open.
ALT HISTORYGate of the Sun at Tiwanaku: Monumental Archaeology Beyond the Calendar StonesTiwanaku Gate of the Sun: UNESCO/AFCP monument file—not the calendar-stones sibling.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSNORAD False Alarms of 1979–1980NORAD warning computers lied in 1979 and 1980. Conferences and sensors stood the forces down—not a lone-hero caption.
ALT HISTORYAngkor After LiDAR: The Hydraulic City ReassessedEvans lidar + UNESCO: greater Angkor as hydraulic urban complex—documented remote sensing, not temple-only mystique.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICSX-20 Dyna-Soar: The Cancelled Boost-Glide SpaceplaneMcNamara killed X-20 on 10 December 1963 for mission definition—not because boost-glide physics suddenly died.