23 Historical Predictions (That Were Right On)

It turns out Biggie Smalls and Jesus weren't the only people who could predict the future.
23 Historical Predictions (That Were Right On)

It turns out Biggie Smalls and Jesus weren't the only people who could predict the future. Plenty of other famous individuals throughout history had a knack for precognition. Our readers brought you eeriest, and we gave $200 to the winner ...

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AFTER THE FIRST GULF WAR WHEN THE USA AND OTHER COAUTION FORCES EXPELLED SADDAM HUSSEIN FROM KUWAIT. THE DEFENSE SECRETARY AT THE TIME COMMENTED ON TH
IN 1999 COWBOY BEBOP HAD A PLOT INVOLVING AN ANTIQUE SPACECRAFT BEING USED [N A RESCUE MISSION WHICH NEARLY FAILED WHEN THE SHUTTLES HEAT RESISTANT TI
Two weeks before his death in a Chicago hotel, former Weezer, bassist Mikey Welsh predicted his own demise via a twitter posto @Mikeywelsh71 Mikey Wel
The atomic bombs were thrown..o They made a mighty thunder in the air, leaving a flaring trail in the sky... a black background to these tremendous p
And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming
When the Treaty CRACKED CON of Versailles was signed, officially ending the First World War in 1919, French Marshal Ferdinand Foch responded... THIS
CRACKED CONT In 1925 upon returning from a trip to Asia, U.S. Army Air Service Gen. Billy Mitchell submitted an intellegence report warning of a futur
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23 Historical Predictions (That Were Right On)
In a 1969 episode of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in, a sketch called News Of The Future accurately predicted Ronald Reagan would be President in 1988. Late
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ngonkde Cyrano de Bergerac predicted the invention of the Audio Book around 1650. In his novel The Other World: Comical History of the States and Emp
The Eerie Similarities Between the 1912 sinking of the RSS Titanic and the 1898 novel Futility or The Wreck ofthe: Titan by Morgan Robertson: Both shi
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EMForster, besiknow for stuffy novels about assism, predicted the internet in a 1909 short story called The Machine Stops. Then she generated the l
A 1995 student PSA featuring 5th graders from Helena, MT not only correctly proclaimed By the time we're in college, the Internet will be our telepho
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two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars... Jonathan Swift, describing the Red Planet's moons in his 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels.
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JOHN BRUNNER STAND ON ZANZIBAR takes place in 2010and has a popular leader named President Obomi, who happens to be African It was aspublished in 1968

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