{ "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" ] } ] }