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Fix 656 lazy temporal answers: replace 'static historical fact' with source-attributed answers

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- Updated perspective.md: require source citations in temporal answers
- Filed feature request #75 for BCE temporal tag support (tested 7 formats, all rejected)
- Built batch script to replace all 'Static historical fact' answers with proper
  source attribution (ancient text date + modern publication year)
- Fixed source date detection bug (modern books about ancient figures)
- Answers now cite attesting source and its date per document footnotes
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@@ -32,25 +32,25 @@ Phoenician city-states fell under successive foreign rule: Assyrian, Babylonian,
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- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 10: "Region: Coastal Lebanon, with colonies across the Mediterranean" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Markoe (2000) [^1]; Herodotus (~430 BCE) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 11: "Period: ~1500–300 BCE" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> 300 BCE event. Attested by Markoe (2000) [^1]; Herodotus (~430 BCE) [^2]. BCE temporal tags not yet supported by factbase.
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 12: "Major cities: Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, Berytus (Beirut)" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Markoe (2000) [^1]; Herodotus (~430 BCE) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 13: "Language: Phoenician (Northwest Semitic)" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Markoe (2000) [^1]; Herodotus (~430 BCE) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 14: "Writing: Phoenician alphabet (~1050 BCE), ancestor of Greek and Latin alphabe..." - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> 1050 BCE event. Attested by Markoe (2000) [^1]; Herodotus (~430 BCE) [^2]. BCE temporal tags not yet supported by factbase.
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 17: "Developed the first widely-used phonetic alphabet ~1050 BCE" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> 1050 BCE event. Attested by Markoe (2000) [^1]; Herodotus (~430 BCE) [^2]. BCE temporal tags not yet supported by factbase.
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 18: "Founded Carthage (~814 BCE) and colonies across the western Mediterranean" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> 814 BCE event. Attested by Markoe (2000) [^1]; Herodotus (~430 BCE) [^2]. BCE temporal tags not yet supported by factbase.
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 19: "Pioneered long-distance maritime trade (tin from Britain, gold from West Africa)" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Markoe (2000) [^1]; Herodotus (~430 BCE) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 20: "Produced Tyrian purple dye from murex snails" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Markoe (2000) [^1]; Herodotus (~430 BCE) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 21: "Circumnavigated Africa under commission from Pharaoh Necho II (~600 BCE) [^2]" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> 600 BCE event. Attested by Markoe (2000) [^1]; Herodotus (~430 BCE) [^2]. BCE temporal tags not yet supported by factbase.
- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 10: "Region: Coastal Lebanon, with colonies across the Mediterranean" - what is the source?
> Markoe (2000) [^1]
- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 11: "Period: ~1500–300 BCE" - what is the source?