For someone who has had 400 years to get something right, you’d think that at least one prediction would have come true. But none have. Even when he was alive he failed to see what was just around the corner. One edition of Nostradamus’s Prophecies, published in 1558, carried a dedication to King Henry II, wishing him a happy life. Henry died the following year. Interestingly, there’s a theory that Nostradamus didn’t believe his own predictions, and that he was just compiling existing predictions from multiple sources, one of which was the wizard Merlin from Arthurian legend. Yet in spite of a
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