Word: nostradamian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...even the closest and most imaginative reading of Nostradamian Centuries or Revelatory verse could have warned Americans that their 2000 presidential election would turn from democratic contest to banana-republic farce. No horoscope foretold the rise of the dotcom companies and the creation of overnight billionaires - and if there was one that warned of the dotcom collapse it clearly was not heeded by the vast majority of investors today sitting, forlorn, on their devalued shares. That does not prevent the Internet from buzzing with Nostradamus' apparent predictions of a divided election and the rise of "the village idiot...
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