instruments / the evidence method / tartaria-entrypoints.json · raw
{
"note": "Kieran's entry points, verbatim (2026-09-06). Entry points into evidence gathering, not claims. 'tags' match the query or category a source was fetched under; 'prompt' is embedded to find nearest evidence across text and images.",
"entrypoints": [
{
"id": "whitewashing",
"title": "whitewashing",
"prompt": "buildings whitewashed or painted white; the White City; staff plaster over timber",
"tags": [
"Court of Honor",
"Columbian Exposition",
"columbian exposition"
]
},
{
"id": "fair-timelines",
"title": "the canals and waterworks of world's fairs and their 1 year timelines",
"prompt": "construction of exposition grounds: lagoons, canals, waterworks, buildings raised in months; construction photographs and official reports",
"tags": [
"Construction of the Louisiana",
"Jackson Park",
"exposition",
"Columbian",
"Louisiana Purchase",
"Panama-Pacific",
"Universelle"
]
},
{
"id": "marble-schools",
"title": "huge marble buildings as high schools in random areas around the United States",
"prompt": "monumental civic buildings in small American cities: high schools, court houses, post offices, city halls, state capitols, libraries",
"tags": [
"high school",
"court house",
"city hall",
"post office",
"state capitol",
"library",
"school architecture"
]
},
{
"id": "vanilla-skies",
"title": "vanilla skies",
"prompt": "blank white skies in nineteenth-century photographs; wet plate collodion; orthochromatic emulsion; sky overexposed",
"tags": [
"collodion"
]
},
{
"id": "missing-photos",
"title": "really weird lack of photo evidence where we would expect there to be some",
"prompt": "photographs of construction in progress: scaffolding, foundations, steel frames, building sites",
"tags": [
"Construction of the Louisiana",
"Jackson Park"
]
},
{
"id": "paintings-not-photos",
"title": "paintings instead of photos",
"prompt": "engravings, lithographs, paintings and drawings used as the record of events and buildings before or alongside photography",
"tags": []
},
{
"id": "doctored-photos",
"title": "doctored photos where people are painted in as historical evidence",
"prompt": "retouched, composite or manipulated photographs; figures painted into photographs; photo retouching practice",
"tags": [
"retouching"
]
},
{
"id": "human-scale",
"title": "human scale vs the building scales",
"prompt": "monumental doors, windows and columns; the scale of people standing against buildings; Beaux-Arts monumentality",
"tags": [
"Beaux-Arts"
]
},
{
"id": "lead",
"title": "lead windows and paint",
"prompt": "leaded glass windows, lead came, lead paint, lead in building materials",
"tags": [
"stained glass"
]
},
{
"id": "magnetic-flips",
"title": "earth's magnetic field's common flips",
"prompt": "geomagnetic reversal; magnetic pole wandering; magnetic field excursion",
"tags": [
"terrestrial magnetism"
]
},
{
"id": "simultaneous-fires",
"title": "simultaneous fires in major cities",
"prompt": "the great fires of October 1871: Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin and Michigan; ruins; relief; causes",
"tags": [
"Peshtigo",
"Chicago fire",
"chicago fire 1871",
"Great Chicago Fire"
]
},
{
"id": "architect-dead-ends",
"title": "literally dead ends on the architects and builders reported of buildings",
"prompt": "the architect and builder of the building; who designed and constructed it; records of the architectural firm",
"tags": [
"american architect",
"architect plans"
]
},
{
"id": "rail-everywhere",
"title": "full rail systems in tiny towns",
"prompt": "railroad depots and stations in small towns; branch lines; railroad maps; railway construction and the towns it made",
"tags": [
"union station",
"railroad",
"railway",
"Rail transport maps",
"Poor's Manual",
"train stations",
"depot"
]
},
{
"id": "piri-reis",
"title": "the Piri Reis map",
"prompt": "the Piri Reis map of 1513; its sources; the Antarctica claim",
"tags": [
"Piri Reis"
]
},
{
"id": "electricity",
"title": "electricity and wiring that seems to already just be in places",
"prompt": "electric lighting and wiring installed in buildings; gas lighting; electrification of cities and expositions",
"tags": [
"electric light"
]
},
{
"id": "star-forts",
"title": "starforts",
"prompt": "star forts, bastion forts, trace italienne fortification; plans and aerial views",
"tags": [
"Star forts",
"fortification",
"Bastion fort"
]
},
{
"id": "tartary-maps",
"title": "tons of old maps that list Tartary and Tartaria",
"prompt": "Tartary on maps: Great Tartary, Independent Tartary, Chinese Tartary; European cartography of Central and North Asia",
"tags": [
"Tartary",
"Tartaria",
"Maps of Siberia",
"Old maps of Asia",
"Tartarian"
]
},
{
"id": "orphan-trains",
"title": "orphan trains",
"prompt": "orphan trains; the Children's Aid Society; orphan asylums; placing out children",
"tags": [
"orphan"
]
},
{
"id": "baby-incubators",
"title": "baby incubators",
"prompt": "infant incubators exhibited at fairs and amusement parks; Couney; premature infants",
"tags": [
"incubator"
]
},
{
"id": "arc-of-interest",
"title": "the arc of interest (is this just another thing to keep my mind busy?)",
"prompt": "how and when the Tartaria theory spread: YouTube, Reddit, Fomenko's New Chronology, mud flood; who promotes it",
"tags": [
"tartaria",
"Tartaria conspiracy",
"r/Tartaria"
]
},
{
"id": "mud-floods",
"title": "mud floods: cities dug out or dug up when settled",
"prompt": "buried storeys and basement windows; regrading, raising and filling of cities: the raising of Chicago, the Seattle regrades and underground, the filling of Yerba Buena Cove in San Francisco; street levels changed",
"tags": [
"regrade",
"raising of chicago",
"seattle underground",
"yerba buena",
"fill",
"mud flood"
]
},
{
"id": "asylums",
"title": "insane asylums: who got put there, and the buildings themselves",
"prompt": "state hospitals for the insane: Kirkbride plan buildings with wings and columns; commitment laws and who was committed; annual reports, patient counts, construction and cost",
"tags": [
"asylum",
"insane",
"state hospital",
"kirkbride",
"packard",
"mad-house"
]
},
{
"id": "stone-edifices",
"title": "anything with columns or major marble or stone edifices, and wings",
"prompt": "monumental stone civic buildings: capitols, court houses, post offices, libraries, high schools, asylums; their dimensions, materials, cost and construction time",
"tags": [
"capitol",
"court house",
"post office",
"library",
"high school",
"state capitol",
"asylum",
"Beaux-Arts"
]
},
{
"id": "stone-mass",
"title": "back-calculating the stone: how much, from which quarries, moved how",
"prompt": "building stone quarries and the stone industry: Indiana limestone, Vermont marble, Joliet limestone, Berea sandstone, granite; quantities quarried per year, freight by rail and canal, contracts for stone work, weight of stone per cubic foot",
"tags": [
"quarry",
"limestone",
"marble",
"granite",
"building stone",
"stone contract",
"mineral resources",
"freight"
]
},
{
"id": "fair-demolition",
"title": "why the fairs were torn down",
"prompt": "demolition, fire and salvage of exposition buildings after the fairs closed; staff plaster and temporary construction; what was kept",
"tags": [
"demolition",
"staff",
"salvage",
"exposition"
]
},
{
"id": "testimony-ruins",
"title": "first-hand testimony: people who were shown the ruins and told this is where the old people lived",
"prompt": "memoirs of frontiersmen, sailors, cowboys, trappers and soldiers who were taken by Native guides to ruins, cliff dwellings and mounds and told who lived there; what they saw and what they were told",
"tags": [
"memoir",
"personal narrative",
"cliff-dwellings",
"ruins",
"frontier",
"trapper",
"cowboy",
"antiquities"
]
},
{
"id": "asylum-writings",
"title": "what people inside the asylums wrote",
"prompt": "first-person narratives written by patients of insane asylums: how they were committed, what they saw, what they believed, what the doctors said; and the asylum's own journals",
"tags": [
"patient",
"personal narrative",
"modern persecution",
"mind that found itself",
"the opal",
"asylum",
"insane"
]
},
{
"id": "people-here-before",
"title": "the people who were here before: what the guides said, and the lost-race tellings",
"prompt": "Native accounts of an earlier people who built the mounds and ruins, as recorded by settlers, traders and soldiers; the moon-eyed people; Madoc and the Welsh Indians; the Mound Builder question and how it was settled",
"tags": [
"moon-eyed",
"madoc",
"welsh indians",
"mound builders",
"mound explorations",
"ancient monuments",
"american antiquities",
"priest"
]
},
{
"id": "anachronisms",
"title": "anything anachronistic: stone and marble that looks too new or too advanced for its date",
"prompt": "buildings whose appearance, finish, or technology seems to contradict their stated date: monumental marble and stone buildings that look new; restoration and cleaning of old facades; how the age of a well-built stone structure is actually established, from fabric accounts, contracts, construction photographs and quarry records",
"tags": [
"fabric rolls",
"fabric accounts",
"building accounts",
"restoration",
"palace of fine arts",
"singer building",
"anachron"
]
},
{
"id": "chronology",
"title": "how do we know 1500 here is 1500 there: the clocks that do not depend on a calendar",
"prompt": "synchronising chronologies across civilisations: eclipses and comets recorded in Chinese, Arab and European annals and retro-calculated; the 1054 supernova; tree-ring master chronologies; the Miyake radiocarbon spikes of 774 and 993 in tree rings worldwide; volcanic markers of 536 and 1257 in ice cores and chronicles; radiocarbon calibration from tree rings; Anno Domini and Dionysius Exiguus; Fomenko's objections",
"tags": [
"eclipse",
"comet",
"supernova",
"miyake",
"dendrochronolog",
"tree-ring",
"ice core",
"calibration",
"intcal",
"dionysius",
"chronology",
"fomenko"
]
}
]
}