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History's Worst Predictions: And the People Who Made Them
History's Worst Predictions And the People Who Made Them Author:Eric Chaline History?s Worst Predictions is a lighthearted look at fifty of the grandest predictions the world has seen?and how they proved to be spectacularly wrong. The book asks why we are still here, given that the end of the world has been foretold over 200 times, including: for 1833 by William Miller, who claimed to be in direct contact with god, ... more »and for 1997 by Nostradamus, king of the poor prediction. Also looks at now-infamous gaffes that are in fact fake, such as Charles H. Duell, former Commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents, who is wrongly credited with saying, in 1899, that ?there is nothing left to invent.?« less