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wood,christopher (ccw@prefect.cc.bellcore.com) wrote:
> 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


> -- 
> Chris Wood     Bellcore     ...!bellcore!prefect!ccw
>                          or ccw@prefect.cc.bellcore.com
Nostradamous' prophecies were written in a form of language that was very vague
most of the time. Historians and believers are trying to "bend" his prophecies
to match various events. I was going to say all events, but then I remembered 
some predictions he made about "Hister" and "The crooked cross" amongst other
things. Hitler and the swastika perhaps?
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Even so, he said that George Bush would be re-elected, the rest is history...