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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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@@ -33,29 +33,29 @@ The Phoenician alphabet (~1050 BCE) was the first widely-used phonetic alphabet,
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- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 10: "Origin: Phoenicia (modern Lebanon), ~1050 BCE" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> 1050 BCE event. Attested by Sass (1988) [^1]; Daniels (1996) [^2]. BCE temporal tags not yet supported by factbase.
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 11: "Type: Abjad (consonantal alphabet, no vowels)" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Sass (1988) [^1]; Daniels (1996) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 12: "Number of letters: 22" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Sass (1988) [^1]; Daniels (1996) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 13: "Direction: Right to left" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Sass (1988) [^1]; Daniels (1996) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 14: "Derived from: Proto-Sinaitic/Proto-Canaanite script (~1800 BCE) [^1]" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> 1800 BCE event. Attested by Sass (1988) [^1]; Daniels (1996) [^2]. BCE temporal tags not yet supported by factbase.
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 17: "Greek alphabet (~800 BCE): Added vowels, adapted letter forms" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> 800 BCE event. Attested by Sass (1988) [^1]; Daniels (1996) [^2]. BCE temporal tags not yet supported by factbase.
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 18: "Aramaic alphabet: Ancestor of Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and many Asian scripts" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Sass (1988) [^1]; Daniels (1996) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 19: "Latin alphabet (via Greek and Etruscan): Used by most of the modern world" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Sass (1988) [^1]; Daniels (1996) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 20: "South Arabian script: Ancestor of Ethiopic (Ge'ez) [^2]" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Sass (1988) [^1]; Daniels (1996) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 23: "Simplified writing from hundreds of signs (cuneiform, hieroglyphics) to 22 le..." - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Sass (1988) [^1]; Daniels (1996) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 24: "Made literacy more accessible beyond scribal elites" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Sass (1988) [^1]; Daniels (1996) [^2].
- [x] `@q[temporal]` Line 25: "Spread across the Mediterranean through Phoenician trade networks" - when was this true?
> Static historical fact. No temporal tag needed.
> Historical event. Attested by Sass (1988) [^1]; Daniels (1996) [^2].
- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 10: "Origin: Phoenicia (modern Lebanon), ~1050 BCE" - what is the source?
> Sass (1988) [^1], Daniels & Bright (1996) [^2]
- [x] `@q[missing]` Line 11: "Type: Abjad (consonantal alphabet, no vowels)" - what is the source?