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Nostradamus

Once, while passing through Italy, bowed before a young
Franciscan monk, addressing him as "His Holiness." Others around him
did understand his strange behavior and the reasons as to why someone
would call a mere monk by such a title. However, years later, and after
' death, that monk became Pope Sixtus V. This was just
one of the hundreds of prophecies, or visions of the future, that the
fifteenth-century prophet made during his lifetime.

Nostradamus, born in the year of 1503 in France, spent his childhood
under the guidance of his two grandfathers. After going to the
University of Montpelier for three years, he received a bachelor's degree in
the study of ...

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medicine, he began
reading books about the occult and took a fancy to predicting the future.
In 1550, he published his first book which contained prophecies for the
coming year. The almanac proved so successful and accurate that he began
publishing them annually. After several years, Nostradamus developed the
idea of writing a complete almanac, entitled Centuries. This book came to
consist of prophecies ranging in time from his present to the end of the
world. In Centuries there were one thousand quatrains, or verses of four
lines each. One which was particularly amazing was this:

A Captain of great Germany,
Shall come to yield himself by stimulating help,
To the Kings of Kings with the help of Hungary,
So that his revolt shall cause great bloodshed.

This quatrain has been interpreted, in modern day, to mean that
Hitler shall involve Hungary in a great battle with much killing. Many
believe that it is ...

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