Verification pass
Ten web searches on every row marked VERIFYING or OPEN, then fetched the key papers. Lists of unsolved mysteries go stale fast: the 1181 supernova and the 1831 eruption were both solved in the last five years.
One item, everything we know about it, and everything it is connected to.
Words we use: Mystery A question nobody has answered yet. Clue from people Something people wrote down or told long ago: a chronicle, a diary, a story, a carving. Clue from nature Something nature recorded by itself: tree rings, ice, rock layers, or the leftovers of an exploded star. Hunch Our guess that a clue from people and a clue from nature are about the same event. Book or paper Where we read it, so anyone can check our work. Step Something we did, in the order we did it.
Ten web searches on every row marked VERIFYING or OPEN, then fetched the key papers. Lists of unsolved mysteries go stale fast: the 1181 supernova and the 1831 eruption were both solved in the last five years.