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. 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.

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.

First, CFS is not a precise, well-defined clinical disorder and is unsuitable as an entity to evaluate a diagnostic test. Second, the controls used were i) children from the same town which experienced a CFS outbreak; ii) friends of CFS patients; and iii) adults working out at a local gym.

The current keeper of the FAQ is Don Woods, which is to say, me. I'm relatively new to the game (started in late 2003) and don't have any really high level characters yet, so I rely on community input to help me come up with answers. If you see something wrong in the FAQ (or just have a suggestion for an improvement), the best way to let me know about it is either to reply to the thread that FAQ was posted to, or to send mail to age-faq@icynic.com.

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 Pr?sages.

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.

Don't panic. We all make mistakes. If you think you made a mistake on the last few pages of a particular project, go back to the Project Page and note the "DONE" links. They reconnect to the last 5 pages you proofread for that project. Click on one, and you can make corrections to your proofreading of that page.

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.

In the beginning of the hike I did 9-12 miles per day. I hiked 15-20 miles other times. However, my average for all days hiked was 12.7 miles per hiking day Of course! I saw three bears. Two were in the Shenandoahs running away from me. The last was looking really sad in the Bear Mountain Zoo. Poor bear.

I used my imagination. I was forced to create some of these characters for an animation project during my junior year of high school, so I guess that's what jumpstarted it. I loved my animation class. Drugs have nothing to do with it.

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A Probably not. I just like to keep the comments "clean". This means a couple different things. Since the site will be here for years or decades, I try to avoid comments which will just fill up the page, but not add value down the road. If you just want to tell me a photo is wonderful, I appreciate that, but I don't need thousands of comments like that. Also, since many kids use the site for school projects, I try to weed out things which parents and teachers might object to.

Oh - that is almost a naughty question ;-) Hubble has produced so many fantastic pictures. And to tell you the truth: I change my taste once in a while. These days it is the Keyhole Nebula which is my favourite.

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.)