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Stories are researched from primary and strong secondary sources before they are written. Quote aggregators are leads, not evidence. Brief quotation only. No substantial reproduction of copyrighted narrative.

Claim offices (Source, Evidence, Context, Interpretation, Myth, Analogy, Chance, Question) are labeled when a sentence would otherwise smuggle one into another.

Visual offices: the world furnishes the archive before the archive illustrates the world. Where we cannot verify a photograph, we do not fake one. Generated interpretation is labeled. A miss is better than a beautiful falsehood. No portraits of living or historical persons are generated.

Eve is presence, not simulation. Hear appears only when Eve is actually there. There is no synthetic fallback and no autoplay.

The editorial panel includes, among others, a historian, a decision scientist, a trauma-informed reader, a humor reader, and a skeptic who hates motivational content. Disagreement is not averaged away.

Corrections: published history remains history. Substantive changes will be marked Correction, Updated source, or Since this story. We will not silently rewrite a major claim.

Type: Source Serif 4 and Libre Franklin. Literata remains a reader choice. Reader sizes 18 / 20 / 22 / 24. Labels never below 16 pixels. Measure is about 66 characters. The canvas is not the measure.

Copyright in the sources remains with the sources. This Guide’s original prose is a human–Grok collaboration, built in the open.

AI participation is declared, not hidden. A first draft is not a publication.