It is just one of the astounding projects documented by Swiss architect Manuel Herz, who has spent the last few years researching the architecture of African independence with his team at ETH University in Zurich.
And yet, already, several of the most astounding facts in the document have been corroborated.
When we consider its origins, it is astounding that such a document could have come out of such circumstances.
The book goes on to document, in astounding detail, the reign of terror that ruled rural Florida for decades before some semblance of peace and order was established in the 1970s.
And The Path To Freedom website documents the astounding quantity of food one family produces on a fifth of an acre in Pasadena, California.
But as Steven I. Weiss of the Jewish Channel documents in an astounding investigative piece produced and published by takepart.com, the full story is much, much worse.
That a 29-year-old contractor was able to steal tens of thousands of classified documents is not only astounding, but also unprecedented.
The documents conjure an organization of astounding reach and sophistication.
Indeed, in his manifesto leaking the document, he called this sentence "an astounding bit of honesty, a killing admission that completely undercuts the main premise and the main conclusion of the full report, revealing the fundamental dishonesty of the whole".
Despite these promising results and generally low cost of the ELISA assays, it is astounding that no published report exists to date documenting clinical implementation.
