Editing Toynbee tiles (section)

=== People and things referred to ===
[[File:Toynbee tile near white house 2002.jpg|thumb|Commonly, a city will have a couple of large and colorful tiles along with numerous small and simple tiles like this one, just a block from the [[White House]].]]

In a documentary film about the tiles, [[Justin Duerr]] assumes that "Toynbee" refers to the 20th century British historian [[Arnold J. Toynbee]], and that "Kubrick's 2001" is a reference to the 1968 film ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', a film co-written and directed by filmmaker [[Stanley Kubrick]], about a crewed mission to [[Jupiter]].<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://www.filmjournal.com/content/film-review-resurrect-dead-mystery-toynbee-tiles | title=Film Review: Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles | magazine=Film Journal International | date=29 August 2011 | access-date=20 March 2015 | author=The Hollywood Reporter|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122331/http://www.filmjournal.com/content/film-review-resurrect-dead-mystery-toynbee-tiles|archive-date=April 2, 2015}}</ref> The former speculation site toynbee.net<ref name="toynee.net snapshot">{{cite web |title=What Is It? (archive of former website) |url=http://toynbee.net/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615044500/http://toynbee.net/ |access-date=25 November 2020|archive-date=June 15, 2006 }}</ref> theorized that 'Toynbee' referred to [[Ray Bradbury]]'s short story "[[The Toynbee Convector]]".<ref name=upi>{{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2006/06/19/Odd-Toynbee-plaques-just-litter-in-Chicago/UPI-31311150735443/|title=Odd Toynbee plaques just litter in Chicago|date=2011|access-date=22 May 2012}}</ref>

The majority of tiles contain text similar to that above, although a second set is often found nearby. Several of these allude to a mass [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy]] between the press (including newspaper magnate [[John S. Knight]] of [[Knight-Ridder]]), the U.S. government, the USSR (including tiles seemingly made years after the Soviet Union's dissolution), and "hellion [[Jew]]s".<ref name="worgul" />

A tile that used to be located in [[Santiago de Chile]] mentions a street address: 2624 S. 7th [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. In 2006, the occupants of the house stated that they knew nothing about the tiles and were annoyed by people who asked,<ref name="abclocal">{{cite news
| first = Matt
| last = O'Donnell
| title = Special Report: Matt Investigates the Mystery of Philadelphia's "Toynbee Tiles"
| publisher = WPVI-TV/DT Action News
| date = 2006-07-17
| url=http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=4306927
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070313163220/http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=4306927
| archive-date = 2007-03-13
| access-date = 2006-12-29}}</ref> although the house was the former residence of a named recluse and alleged tile-maker, as shown in the 2011 documentary film ''[[Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles]]''. Toynbee-tile enthusiasts believe that a native Philadelphian created the Toynbee tiles because of the large number that appear in the city, their apparent age, the variety of carving styles, the presence of the "tile creator's screed," and the Philadelphia address on the Santiago tile.