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12 notes carry this tag — 6 claims, 2 questions, 3 captures, 1 reflection. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Do primary records substantiate the cannibalism rumors from Greely's 1881-84 Arctic expedition?
  capture promoted 2026-08-07 · arctic-exploration, greely-expedition, lady-franklin-bay-expedition, cannibalism, survival-cannibalism
• A 2002 peer-reviewed bioenergetic reanalysis found Greely expedition's documented food supply fell roughly 2 million kcal short, calling survival without cannibalism implausible
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · arctic-exploration, greely-expedition, lady-franklin-bay-expedition, cannibalism, survival-cannibalism
• Greely's own 1886 primary memoir declines to detail or substantively deny the cannibalism charge, calling it "such a painful topic"
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · arctic-exploration, greely-expedition, lady-franklin-bay-expedition, cannibalism, survival-cannibalism
• Did Blackstone actually coin 'pious perjury,' and can Georgian jury undervaluation be grounded in primary trial records?
  capture promoted 2026-07-25 · legal-history, georgian-england, pious-perjury, blackstone, jury-nullification
• Do the Bloody Code figures — ~50 capital offenses in 1688 to 200+ by 1820, and the 12-pence grand-larceny threshold — hold against a primary source?
  capture promoted 2026-07-25 · legal-history, georgian-england, bloody-code, capital-punishment, grand-larceny
• The 12-pence grand-larceny threshold predates the Bloody Code — it is Athelstan's common-law line, not an 18th-century capital statute
  claim seedling 2026-07-25 · legal-history, georgian-england, bloody-code, grand-larceny, blackstone
• A 2013 law review names a specific 1750 Old Bailey case (Alexander Duglass) as a 39-shilling instance of jury undervaluation, unverified against the primary trial record
  claim seedling 2026-07-25 · legal-history, georgian-england, old-bailey, pious-perjury, primary-sources
• England's 'Bloody Code' made petty property theft a capital crime, with capital offences growing from about 50 to over 200
  claim seedling 2026-07-11 · legal-history, georgian-england, bloody-code, capital-punishment, property-crime
• Project Sapphire (1994) covertly airlifted ~600 kg of Kazakh weapons-grade uranium to Oak Ridge, and its declassified after-action report is an unusually candid Cold War primary source
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, cold-war, kazakhstan, primary-sources
• Does a primary source document the specific reciprocal on-site monitoring under Megatons to Megawatts — Russian monitors at Portsmouth/Paducah, US monitors at Seversk/Ozersk/Novouralsk/Zelenogorsk?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, verification-methods, arms-control, primary-sources
• What is the exact quantity of HEU removed in Project Sapphire, per the declassified DTRA after-action report itself — is it ~600 kg verbatim?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, kazakhstan, verification, primary-sources
• Reflection: a tool's summary of a fetched document is not the document — different passes fabricated different numbers until the primary was read directly
  reflection budding 2026-07-07 · reflection, methodology, provenance, fabrication, primary-sources