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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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@@ -38,35 +38,35 @@ The Silk Road was a network of overland trade routes connecting China to the Med
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- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 10: "Period: ~130 BCE – ~1450 CE (ancient period focus: ~130 BCE – ~400 CE)" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> 130 BCE event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2]. BCE temporal tags not yet supported by factbase.
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 11: "Length: ~6,400 km (main route)" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 12: "Named by: Ferdinand von Richthofen (1877)" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 13: "Key goods: Silk, spices, gold, glass, horses, precious stones" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 16: "Eastern terminus: Chang'an (Xi'an), China" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 17: "Western terminus: Rome, Antioch, Constantinople" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 18: "Key waypoints: Dunhuang, Kashgar, Samarkand, Merv, Ctesiphon, Palmyra" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 19: "Crossed the Taklamakan Desert, Pamir Mountains, and Iranian Plateau [^1]" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 22: "Buddhism spread from India to China via the Silk Road" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 23: "Nestorian Christianity, Manichaeism, and Islam traveled eastward" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 24: "Technologies transferred: Papermaking, gunpowder (later), glassmaking" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 25: "Diseases also spread, possibly including plague [^2]" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 28: "Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE): Zhang Qian's missions opened the route (~13..." - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> 206 BCE event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2]. BCE temporal tags not yet supported by factbase.
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 29: "Kushan Empire (1st–3rd century CE): Facilitated trade across Central Asia" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 30: "Roman demand for Chinese silk drove trade westward" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Hansen (2012) [^1]; Frankopan (2015) [^2].
- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 10: "Period: ~130 BCE – ~1450 CE (ancient period focus: ~130 BCE – ~400 CE)" - what is the source?
> Hansen (2012) [^1], Frankopan (2015) [^2]
- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 11: "Length: ~6,400 km (main route)" - what is the source?