Word: nostradamus
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...solution to the French situation is in the prophecy of Nostradamus: France shall again have a king to unify the country...
Later, possibly to keep the fires burning briskly, Pagliacci slyly added that he had also been influenced by his recollection of one of the prophecies of the 16th Century mystic Nostradamus, forecasting a day of doom when "the horses of the Cossacks will drink from the holy water fonts of St. Peter's." To set the record straight, he explained that he has mild anarchist and atheist tendencies, but is strongly antiCommunist...
...year later, in the spring of 1946, the now defunct New York newspaper PM published a music column written by "Nostradamus," which attempted to predict the quality of coming musical events. In his final column of the year, discussing the 1946-47 season of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Nostradamus warned his readers to watch out for a conductor named Charles Munch. His success will be immediate and enormous, he predicted...
...great moment in the drama of medicine: the moment when Dr. Faustus opens Nostradamus' secret book, comprehends in a flash the sign of the macrocosm, and is able at last to conjure up the Earth Spirit. But that was not the way Dr. Fleming reported his epochal perception. Said he: "I was sufficiently interested in the antibacterial substance produced by the mold to pursue the subject...
Perhaps the Egyptians had some super Nostradamus who saw clearly and perfectly into the future and counted time backwards just to make things easier for the archeologists. J. W. SHEPLER Chicago...