[3392] in Humor
Re: Nostradamus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ashish Mishra)
Fri Jan 12 19:28:06 2001
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:25:17 -0500
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From: Ashish Mishra <ashm@MIT.EDU>
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At 06:37 PM 1/12/01 -0500, Charles E. Leiserson, Jr. wrote:
>I wonder how you check on the authenticity of the following quote. (I
>have no qualms with the accuracy of the prediction!)
>
> "Come the millennium, month 12, in the home of the greatest power,
> the village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the leader." =20
> -- Nostradamus in 1555
Sadly, it's a hoax, see for instance=
http://www.rense.com/general6/hoaxbs.htm
*But*,=20
This one isn't a hoax: (Nostradamus, Quatrain 1.78)
D'un chef naistra sens hebet=82
Degenerant par savoir & par armes:
To an old leader will be born an idiot heir,
weak both in knowledge and in
war.
