Answer. Apart from his professional works (in which no one is really interested) he produced a number of prophetic works. We discern between the Centuries and the Prognostications. The Prognostications are like an Almanac. They contain a series of Predictions about the next year. Because these predictions were fulfilled (or not) more than 440 years ago few are interested in them. The really interesting stuff is the Centuries.

Michel de Nostredame (1503-66), later known as Nostradamus, was one of the leading lights of the late French Renaissance. A Jewish-French contemporary of Paracelsus and England's Dr John Dee, he is often supposed to have been (from 1530) at medical college with Rabelais: however, he is known to have been expelled again from the student body at Montpellier for having, as an apothecary, been rude about doctors, so this is at best uncertain. He was certainly much admired by the poet Ronsard.

Answer. Very little or nothing. He does refer to the King of the Mongols, and to a King from beyond the Black Sea. Most of the discussion about China relates to a verse from the Bible that mentions an army of 200 Million. If the prediction is very specific, it is probably bogus. Nostradamus almost always concealed his meaning in anagrams, symbolism, and mythological allusions. (There are exceptions, however, see below.) These articles almost never give a citation to the original verse.

Answer. The names of [Louis] Pasteur, [Gen. Francisco] Franco, and others are clearly given by Nostradamus. The exact date of the London Fire (1666) is also plainly given. Many interpreters think that Hitler's name is also given, slightly modified, as "Hister." There are still many unsolved names and dates. In other quatrains, several dates are given in terms of fairly specific and unique astronomical data (e.g., planet positions in the zodiac). Answer.

Answer. Nostradamus wrote primarily in "early Modern French," with an admixture of archaic words mostly derived from Latin and Greek. Early Modern French is approximately contemporaneous with Shakespearian English. He also incorporates words from the "Languedoc" or Provencal dialect of southern France. Readers who are familiar with Latin and modern French can often understand the original language, even if they have not studied early French or Provencal.

a physician, Nostradamus became famous because of fighting the plague. He traveled through the infected areas and applied, with success, medicines that were uncommon in his time. He translated a book by Claudius Galenus, the founder of West European healing. an astrologer, Nostradamus became famous for the yearly publishing of almanacs (beginning in 1550). These almanacs contained political predictions for each month, later known as the Présages.

The investigation on which Nostradamus, astrology and the Bible is based, showed by means of the quatrains and the letters to Cesar and Henry II, that Nostradamus had the strong conviction that God gave to him the gift of prophecy. During 29 years, from October 16, 1524 to October 11, 1553, he got "imaginations" (visions). These "imaginations" contained hints to wars, disasters and the like.

The local Catholic peasantry viewed him with suspicion and (in an age of almost apocalyptic religious warfare) thought he might be some kind of Protestant. The Church was interested, though sometimes a little suspicious. His books - and especially his annual Almanachs - were avidly devoured by the reading public (around 90% of whom could reportedly read at the time).

Nostradamus was a French physician. He was born in 1503 in Saint-Rémy de Provence, France. He died in 1566 in Salon-de-Provence, France. He was a catholic. His parents and grandparents were Jewish from origin, but had themselves baptized catholic.

Answer. Nostradamus was educated as a physician and was noted for his work during the plagues of the 16th century. In later years, he worked as an astrologer to clients who included the Queen of France.

Answer. The books of Erika Cheetham have good biographical material. These are readily available in university libraries and even in many bookstores. See also the other Nostradamus pages on the WWW and the USENET Nostradamus FAQ. (See below.)

Also don't forget to check out Albert Nanomius' eight part FAQ regularly posted on apn. Excellent stuff as a sidebar to the quatrains, and goes to some lengths in theorizing about the "subject" of N's writings. A real honest-a-goodness original 1606 french dictionary with word search capabilities. Not complete, but neither was the french language in 1606. The Anagram page. Enter a word up to 10 characters long and generate all possible anagrams (The page is very amusing.

The name of Neptune can be found in a number of quatrains as well as in a number of the Présages. However, there is nothing that shows that Nostradamus knew about the existence of other planets than the seven "classic" planets of his lifetime: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. If he gave lists of planets, he always listed one or more of these planets and never one or more of the transsaturnial planets.

Anybody can make up a load of tosh which is incredible easy to interpret in a way which suits the interpreter. (I should know, sweetie.) I suspect that the world as we know it will come to an end in the year 3472 when the last weedy little human being finally gasps its final breath and the cockroaches will take over .

Answer. It is commonly believed that the first two Anti-Christs were Napoleon and Hitler. The identity of the third Anti-Christ is not yet known. Some people believe that Saddam Hussien will be the 3AC. Many believe that the 3AC will come from the Mid-East. Others have argued that the 3AC will come from East Asia (China, Mongolia or Korea.) This is a common topic of discussion in the Nostradamus newsgroup.

The message Nostradamus wants to give to humanity, can be read most clearly in his letter to Cesar. Some of its elements can also be found in the quatrains and the letter to Henry II. Between 1555 and 3827, God will execute his judgment regarding the world. This will happen by means of one thousand disastrous events, that will take place irrevocably. These events are described in the quatrains and will occur between 1555 and 3797. In 2827, the biblical kingdom of one thousand years will begin.

Chris has a younger brother and a sister, Amy and Daniel. Before his mother Sheila moved out, Chris, his parents, his maternal grandmother, and his two siblings all lived together in their trailer, but Chris sometimes slept in an adjacent small trailer they kept on their property. After Sheila moved out, Amy and Daniel stayed with Chris and his father and grandmother. But later, when Sheila left Kentucky, Amy and Daniel went with her.

According to Bruce Lincoln, "At present, the majority opinion among scholars probably inclines toward the end of the second millennium or the beginning of the first, although there are still those who hold for a date in the seventh century." (Death, War, and Sacrifice, 1991, pg 150) Humbach and Ichaporia seem to favor the Xanthos date of 1080 BC but mention the 630 date also. (Heritage, 1994, pg 11). A commonly given date is the seventh century B.C.E.

No. Not even close. The last dinosaurs to roam the earth, including the area that became Texas, became extinct about 66 million years ago. The earliest humans may not have arrived in this area of North America until shortly before 13,500 years ago (11,500 B.C.). Some scientists think humans probably arrived by 15,000 years ago or maybe even as much as 20,000 years ago. This still leaves quite a gap!

Most people picture tipis when they think about Indian homes. Tipis have been around a long time; stone circles dating back several thousand years have been found at various sites on the Plains. Paleoindian peoples, living near the end of the ice age, did not appear to have used tipis. Traces have been found of posts which probably anchored tent frames or similar structures. Caves and rockshelters were also used as homes by various peoples in the past.

We believe that Christ is alive today. However, He physically lived among us roughly 2000 years ago in Palestine.

a trend, Iranians began coming to the U.S. (as students, immigrants, etc) around 1950. According to census statistics, in 1977 about 40,000 Iranians were living in the U.S. In 1986, this number increased to 200,000. Many believe the correct number is something over one million. Most of them live in California, Washington, D.C., New York, and Texas. quot;Fatwa" is a very complicated issue and it is used quite differently in different Islamic countries. Here are some generalities.

Amazingly, through the Internet. After posting a query on a Lancaster County message board, I got a response from a lovely Mennonite woman, with whom I struck up a research relationship. After many email queries, she suggested I come visit the area and volunteered to find me some Amish friends to stay with. I was there for a week, milking at 4:30 AM and participating in the morning Bible study, as well as helping out with the cooking of meals.

The answer to this question is a complicated one. The short answer is that your home was available for entry. (We do recommend that people take steps to prevent animal damage problems. For information on what those steps are please click Animal damage prevention checklist). Typically, people think that animals are in their homes because human development took away theirs. While this is certainly true, it is not completely true.

The Las Vegas oasis was first noticed in 1829 by Spanish explorers. They named this valley "Las Vegas" which means "the meadows." Mormon settlers arrived shortly thereafter and made this area home. The town itself was founded in 1905 but did not begin its incredible growth spurt until Nevada legalized gambling in 1931. Since that time Nevada has been one of the fastest growing states in the Union. At over 1.

Door alignments suggest rooms were connected into â??suitesâ?? of three to ten rooms. Perhaps each was home to a family, but we cannot be certain. Many firepits were found in rooms closest to the plaza, suggesting food preparation took place there. Backrooms were likely used as storage.

Yes, but we moved so many times. My Dad lived in many states in the US including, Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and California. However, in his travels he went to every state in the USA and had visited numerous countries overseas like Korea, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, England, and many others.

They realized that their lives were not as converted as they wished. Many had major conversions, some from very sinful lives. All wanted to surrender themselves in every way to God. They hungered for holiness. They wanted ways to atone for past sins. They saw the Rule as a means to those ends. The purpose of the Rule is never to "do what it says" as an end in itself but to "do what it says" as a discipline, a penance, that enables the penitent to "do what HE says.

The keepers and their families lived in the 1876 two-story brick building which was a duplex. The keepers house is now a museum.