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Proof: The story of Paris's 'cursed' island

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-27T18:42:01Z","headline":"The story of Paris's 'cursed' island","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"lemonde","url":"https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2026/09/27/from-renault-factories-to-contemporary-art-center-the-story-of-paris-s-cursed-seguin-island_6758012_117.html","v":1}

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e387b9e0813ddc522a59b339fada9c2314cfabb76fdf9484aba93027ea64434e

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968896, mined 2026-09-27 21:31 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:35 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:35 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-e387b9e0813d.json prints e387b9e0813ddc522a59b339fada9c2314cfabb76fdf9484aba93027ea64434e. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-e387b9e0813d.json and headline-e387b9e0813d.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-e387b9e0813d.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 2 h 35 min after it was first seen.