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The Great Feline-Canine Prophecy of 1874
A Gabrovo clockmaker wakes from a thirty-one-hour fever able to describe a court with no floor — and a ballad about watches gone soft, set down fifty-seven years before anybody painted one.
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Events · 22 IX 2024
The Great Pineapple Panic of 1773
A Northamptonshire village said to have been carried to the brink of ruin by one pineapple left in a window — filed against a fruit that cost eighty pounds to raise, was hired out by the evening at a guinea, and was set on a plinth in the middle of the dining table to be looked at and taken away again.
Science & Exploration · 30 VII 2024
The Babylonian Virtual Reality Library
A reading room at Babylon in which no reading was done — eleven crystal shards, a gold headset, and a chamber that appears on no plan of Esagila.
Historical Mysteries · 23 VII 2024
The Ming Dynasty's Quantum Physics Research
A silk roll out of Nanjing, twelve stanzas long, in which three Ming officials count nine bands of light on a floor, seal a cricket in a lacquer cage, and leave the Emperor asking where exactly he is.
Science & Exploration · 18 VII 2024
The Mystery of the Babylonian Battery
A clay jar from an Iraqi suburb has been called a two-thousand-year-old battery since 1938. The Bureau reviews every purpose proposed for it, in descending order of the confidence with which it was proposed.
Science & Exploration · 12 VII 2024
The Lost Expedition to the Hollow Earth
Fifteen specialists went down a shaft in the Antarctic ice, radioed at four in the morning that the passage below had a lintel over it, and were never heard from again.
Cultural Oddities · 8 VII 2024
The Logo That Built Cities
Twenty-eight schools of twentieth-century architecture, each of which has at some point claimed the FakeHistory.eu monogram as its own — and one crossbar that nobody could agree was structural.
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