World’s Greatest Prophecies & Predictions

Rose Gilbert, who lived in Tucson, Arizona, had a lifelong dream of becoming a theater star, hopefully on Broadway. Sure, she gained valuable experience in her hometown, but nothing could dim her hope of making it big in New York. She was 56 years old, and time was running out. So keenly did she feel […]

For a couple of days before he was due to fly to Bali to visit his grandmother, 11-year-old Miguel Panduwinata kept asking his mother about God and about what happens to souls when people die. His mother, Samira, found this very odd as her boy was normally happy-go-lucky and always in a good mood. However,

King Henry IV of England thought he would die in battle. A zealous crusader, he dreamed of conquering the holy land and returning it to christian control. Affairs at home delayed his crusade, however a prophecy made to him years earlier claimed that he would die in Jerusalem, a prediction which he took very seriously.

Otto Loewi (1873-1961), a German-born pharmacologist and physiologist, won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1936 for his work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses and the discovery of acetylcholine. In 1903, he accepted an appointment at the University of Graz in Austria, where he would remain until being forced out of the country

Madam C J Walker, born Sarah Breedlove, (1867 – 1919) was an African-American entrepreneur and philanthropist from Delta, Louisiana. During the 1890s, Walker suffered from a then-common scalp infection that caused most of her hair to fall out. As a result, she began experimenting with various medicines and hair products, none of which seemed to

At the beginning of 2009, an Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip was in full swing. Shells were flying and lives were lost at a rapid pace.Six-year-old Baraa’ Abd al Rahman Badawi was woken by a loud explosion in the late afternoon of January 7, 2009. He was immediately inconsolable and kept crying. When his

Mary Shelley, née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1797 – 1851) was an English writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12 – 41 AD) – commonly known as ‘Caligula’, meaning ‘little soldier’s boot’- was a Roman Emperor (and member of the house of rulers known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty) from 37 – 41 AD.Caligula was considered a harsh and perverted leader and ubsequently, Caligula was the recipient of many failed

Sir Paul McCartney (b. 1942) of Liverpool, England, was one quarter of the most famous band in musical history – The Beatles. Alongside John Lennon (1940 – 1980), McCartney formed the most celebrated singer/songwriting partnership in popular music, receiving unprecedented commercial and critical acclaim during their 1957 – 1970 career with The Beatles.In 1965, McCartney

Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) was the 16th President of the United States of America from March 1861 until his assassination in 14th April 1865. Lincoln is remembered for successfully leading his country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting

English military and political leader, Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), overthrew the monarchy and turned England into a republican Commonwealth. He was then instated as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth. An intensely religious man – a self-styled Puritan Moses – he fervently believed God was guiding his victories.Cromwell believed that his political rise was delivered to him

Jaime Castell was killed in a freak automobile accident. The Spanish hotel executive was driving home one evening when a car speeding in the opposite direction swerved off the road, jumped over the median barrier, flipped over and landed upside-down on top of Castell’s car, killing him instantly. The insurance company readily and without question

On August 9, 2014, a tragic incident in a Ferguson, Missouri, resulted in riots and protests that lasted several weeks. Eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was shot dead after an altercation with a police officer. Some witnesses stated that Brown was shot as he moved toward the policeman, ignoring calls to freeze. Others vehemently denied this, claiming

German scientist, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829 – 1896) is a remarkable figure in the history of chemistry, specifically organic chemistry. In 1856 Kekulé became Privatdozent at the University of Heidelberg. In 1858 he was hired as full professor at the University of Ghent, then in 1867 he was called to Bonn, where he

On October 7, 1571 Pope Pius V, during a meeting with a group of cardinals, abruptly stood up and opened a window before staring motionlessly outside. Some time later, he turned, dissolved the meeting and ordered everyone present to give thanks to God for the victory of the Christian fleet against the Turks. No one