History's worst predictions : and the people who made them

Book 2011

"Organized chronologically from Antiquity to modern times and beyond, History's Worst Predictions excavates the strata of history to expose the credulity and absurdity of humanity's prophetic utterances. Every aspect of human life--religion, politics, science, economy, culture, and war--has provided material for the most far-fetched and inaccurate of predictions"-- Back cover.

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ISBN:

9780785828136

Edition:

Illustrated edition

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-256)

Contents:

Reading the future: the Sibylline books
The "first" Second Coming: saints Mark, Matthew, Luke, and Paul
Round and round: Maya Long Count and 2012
The millennium myth: 1000 CE
Twilight of the Gods: Snorri Sturluson
Ark of fools: Johannes Stoffler
The Yorkshire Sybil: Ursula Southeil
Plagiarist prophet: Nostradamus
Revolution, what revolution?: George III
Overcrowded earth: Thomas Malthus
Marching On: Joseph Smith, Jr.
High-speed death: Dionysius Lardner
Born-again rationalist: William Miller
Historical imperative: Karl Marx
"Who would want to use it?": Rutherford B. Hayes
Whistling in the dark: Henry Morton
Tuning out: Lord Kelvin
Neigh, neigh: the president of Michigan savings bank
Fear of flying: Marshall Ferdinand Foch
On the rocks: Captain Edward Smith
The Armageddon habit: Charles Taze Russell
Iron horses: a British staff officer
Farewell to arms: president Woodrow Wilson
Silence is golden: Harry M. Warner
We're in the money: Irving Fisher
Doing the splits: Albert Einstein
Turning the red tide: Leon Trotsky
Man of peace: Neville Chamberlain
The Nazi millennium: Adolf Hitler
Angels of death: Captain Motoharu Okamura
Viewing the future: Darryl F. Zanuck
All shook up: Variety magazine
Atomic dreams: Alexander Lewyt
High and dry: M. King Hubbert
Fly me to the moon: Lee De Forest
Great leap backward: Mao Zedong
Nowhere man: Dick Rowe
MAD: Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy
Metal Mickey: Meredith Thring
Iron Maiden: Margaret Thatcher
Chill out: Newsweek and Time magazines
Does not compute: Kenneth Olsen
Stormy weather: Michael Fish
Carried away: Hal Lindsey, Edgar C. Whisenant, and many others
History man: Francis Fukuyama
Suicide cults: Marshall Applewhite, Bonnie Nettles, and others
Electronic Armageddon: Gary North
Over the rainbow: Gordon Brown
Bring out your dead: Dr. Margaret Chan
The end of the future: futurology

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2869212

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