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Re: California to be Destroyed May 8, Nostradamus Says

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From: wood,christopher
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:10
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In article <1993Jan11.115352.6063@linkoping.trab.se> ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin) writes:

>There has been once fairly well-known interpretation of a verse that
>said something about a falling wall. Some claimed it predicted a
>catastrophe at Wall Street, 

N. predicts the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929! or 1987.  Or the fall
of Ivan Boesky.  Or ...

>some that it referred to California
>sliding into the Pacific some time during the 1990's -- I wasn't
>interested enough to remember.  It may be that that verse is popping
>up again.

Or is it the Berlin Wall?  N. got it right!  Waitaminnit, maybe it was
the Great Wall of China!  Hadrian's Wall, perhaps?  

>Are there any references to exactly *which* verse is being
>interpreted? 

Or which wall, or eagle, or lion, or ...

That's the problem with post-hoc assessments of ambiguous predictions...
so many events could have been predicted.

>Anders Thulin        ath@linkoping.trab.se        013-23 55 32
>Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden


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Chris Wood     Bellcore     ...!bellcore!prefect!ccw
                         or ccw@prefect.cc.bellcore.com
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