History's Worst Predictions : And The People Who Made Them
by Chaline, Eric
Published by : Pier 9 (Miller Point NSW) Physical details: 256 Pages 23X17 cm | PB ISBN:9781741969887.
Subject(s):
Social prediction.
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History -- Errors, inventions, etc.
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Forecasting -- History -- Miscellanea.
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Quotations, English
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Forecasting
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Prophecies
Year: 2011
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"Organized chronologically from Antiquity to modern times and beyond, History's Worst Predictions excavates the strata of history to expose the credulity and absurdity of humanity's prophetic utterances. Every aspect of human life--religion, politics, science, economy, culture, and war--has provided material for the most far-fetched and inaccurate of predictions"--
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