Lincoln Niagara Falls Fragment (1848)
artifact
A famous Lincoln quote about giants was chopped in half to fake a conspiracy.
Who they are
An 1848 handwritten note by Abraham Lincoln about Niagara Falls.
What they do
In the engine's read, it's a documented case of an original source being deliberately trimmed to mislead.
How it works
A cut-off sentence ('The eyes of that species of extinct giants... have gazed on Niagara') gets used as proof of ancient giants, but the very next sentence Lincoln wrote makes clear he meant mammoths and mastodons, whose bones fill American mounds.
Why it matters
It shows exactly how a real quote can be truncated to manufacture a false claim.
The engine's record — word for word
Report #78. Abraham Lincoln Sept 25-30 1848 autograph fragment on Niagara Falls. Selectively truncated sentence ('The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the Mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara...') used as conspiracy-proof. The very next unredacted sentence: 'The Mammoth and Mastadon — now so long dead, that fragments of their monstrous bones, alone testify, that they ever lived, have gazed on Niagara.' Lincoln was explicitly discussing Pleistocene megafauna. Documented primary-source-truncation case.
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