When religious divide was tearing France apart in the 16th century, a doctor and a soothsayer brought the country together. The prophecies that were made by him have survived centuries and are still being repeated to make sense of the world. The world might as well be NostraDAMNED, I say.
That’s right, I’m talking about the mighty French seer and astrologer, Nostradamus. He was an early example of how the lure of knowing what the future holds for man is a universal glue. Now, some would regard Nostradamus as ‘hocus pocus’, equating him to the likes of your run-of-the-mill Tota, Jyothish, tarot reader, crystal ball gazer... but I think the man was a genius. In the last 400 years, 800 of his predictions have been rendered true. The guy was practically Google, for the future.