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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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.) See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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 Pr?sages. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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). See similar questions...

Nostradamus was a French physician. He was born in 1503 in Saint-R?my 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. See similar questions...

Junshi, Chen, T. Colin Campbell, Li Junyao, and Richard Peto, Diet, Life-style and Mortality in China: A Study of the Characteristics of 65 Chinese Counties, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. I borrowed a copy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. You should be able to find this either at a university library or through interlibrary loan. See similar questions...

First, Ludwik Rajchman, a friend of Jean Monnet's, went to China on a mission for the League of Nations. During his visit, he observed the problems confronting the country and suggested that Monnet to go to work there. Monnet arrived in China for the first time in 1933 for a brief visit. Later, the brother-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek, Dr. T. V. Soong, in his capacity as minister and special advisor in the Kuomingtang, met Monnet during a trip to Europe. On Rajchman's recommendation, Dr. See similar questions...

The name of Neptune can be found in a number of quatrains as well as in a number of the Pr?sages. 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. See similar questions...

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 . See similar questions...

COMPLICATION: In complicated sentences the who/whom pronoun seems to fulfill both the subject and object functions. When this happens, the subject wins--use who. Compose the letter after you and John have determined who/whom should write to who/whom.[use who,whom]. See similar questions...

Back in 1999, The Nation asked us to contribute something to a special issue on film and culture. We came up with The Anatomically Correct Oscar. We redesigned the golden boy to make him look more like the white guys who usually win. In 2002, a bunch of female film makers joined us to raise the money to do it as a billboard at Melrose and Highland, a few blocks from the Academy Award ceremony. It got a lot of press and was a great way to annoy Hollywood in it's own backyard. See similar questions...