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Revised and Updated Edition of This Internationally Bestselling Collection of Nostradamus Most Startling Prophecies

500 years ago, Nostradamus predicted some of the most shocking moments of modern time – the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the 2008 financial meltdown, the floods in New Orleans, the Iraq war, the attack on the World Trade Centre, and the devastating Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 which claimed the lives of over 300,000 people.

And his predictions foretold the future for decades to come.

Mario Reading’s unique decryption of Nostradamus’s index dating system has enabled him to present all Nostradamus’s prophecies in an entirely new light. Offering more than 120 prophecies for events yet to occur, plus brand-new commentaries on those that have come to pass since first publication, the author s groundbreaking translations and perceptive interpretations of the quatrains reveal extraordinarily accurate and sometimes shocking predictions for our future: these predictions include the demise of the British Monarchy, the break-up of the European Union and Global War.

The greatest diviner and scryer who ever lived, Nostradamus was born in 1503 in Provence, France, and his prophecies have been continuously in print since his death on 2nd July 1566.

Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.

Nostradamus’s father’s family had originally been Jewish, but had converted to Catholic Christianity a generation before Nostradamus was born. He studied at the University of Avignon, but was forced to leave after just over a year when the university closed due to an outbreak of the plague. He worked as an apothecary for several years before entering the University of Montpellier, hoping to earn a doctorate, but was almost immediately expelled after his work as an apothecary (a manual trade forbidden by university statutes) was discovered. He first married in 1531, but his wife and two children died in 1534 during another plague outbreak. He worked against the plague alongside other doctors before remarrying to Anne Ponsarde, with whom he had six children. He wrote an almanac for 1550 and, as a result of its success, continued writing them for future years as he began working as an astrologer for various wealthy patrons. Catherine de’ Medici became one of his foremost supporters. His Les Prophéties, published in 1555, relied heavily on historical and literary precedent, and initially received mixed reception. He suffered from severe gout toward the end of his life, which eventually developed into edema. He died on 1 or 2 July 1566. Many popular authors have retold apocryphal legends about his life.

In the years since the publication of his Les Prophéties, Nostradamus has attracted many supporters, who, along with some of the popular press, credit him with having accurately predicted many major world events. Academic sources reject the notion that Nostradamus had any genuine supernatural prophetic abilities and maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus’s quatrains are the result of (sometimes deliberate) misinterpretations or mistranslations.These academics also argue that Nostradamus’s predictions are characteristically vague, meaning they could be applied to virtually anything, and are useless for determining whether their author had any real prophetic powers.