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The Worst Predictions Throughout History

The Worst Predictions Throughout History

by | Nov 27, 2024 | , | 0

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It’s often said that predicting the future is like betting against God.

Despite this, humans have always loved to try and predict the future -whether it’s dismissing new technology or predicting the end of the world, throughout history there have been some interesting predictions made.

Some have been correct. Most have not.

And then there are those predictions that are so spectacularly wrong they make you laugh. Collating some of the worst predictions throughout history, here’s the most interesting, the most incorrect, and the most ironic.

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Who Would Be the Roman Emperor Today?

Who Would Be the Roman Emperor Today?

by | Oct 10, 2024 | , | 0

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The Roman Empire continues to fascinate the world and dominate many cultural aspects of modern Western life. From language to law, the Romans left quite the legacy.
But one thing they didn’t leave was a clear successor to the Roman Empire.
If the Roman Empire still existed today, how could we determine who its ruler should be?

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The Beginning of Rebellion: The Hidden History of the 1521 Santo Domingo Slave Revolt

The Beginning of Rebellion: The Hidden History of the 1521 Santo Domingo Slave Revolt

by | Jun 3, 2024 | , | 0

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As the Age of Discovery slowly transitioned into the Age of Colonialism, the Spanish Empire, or more accurately its citizens, began importing African slaves into its new colonial holdings in North America and the Caribbean.
Only 30 years after Columbus had discovered the Americas, on the island of Hispaniola (now modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic), the very first colonial slave revolt occurred.

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The Blue Division: Franco’s Soldiers on the Eastern Front

The Blue Division: Franco’s Soldiers on the Eastern Front

by | Apr 9, 2024 | | 0

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From 1939 to 1945, scarcely one of the 99 countries on Earth went untouched. Just 14 nations remained neutral throughout the Second World War, and even those couldn’t completely escape the gravity well of war.
Nor did they all want to. A prelude to the European war – bloody, massive, and unspeakably destructive – had played out in Spain from 1936 until just a few months before Germany invaded Poland in the fall of 1939.

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500 years after Ferdinand Magellan landed in Patagonia, there’s nothing to celebrate for its indigenous peoples

500 years after Ferdinand Magellan landed in Patagonia, there’s nothing to celebrate for its indigenous peoples

by | Feb 19, 2024 | , | 0

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Five hundred years ago, on March 31 1520, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan began a sojourn in a part of South America that has been known as Patagonia ever since. Magellan’s five-month long overwinter in a natural harbour that has become known as Puerto San Julián was part of the first circumnavigation of the globe.

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Spain’s Civil War and the Americans who fought in it: a convoluted legacy

Spain’s Civil War and the Americans who fought in it: a convoluted legacy

by | Jul 17, 2023 | , | 0

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Though the Spanish war did pit Spaniard against Spaniard, the conflict quickly became international. Within days of the onset of the coup, Hitler and Mussolini intervened on the side of the insurgent generals. Before long, the Soviet Union would come to the aid of the Loyalists, also known as the Republican forces, who supported the government.

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Spain’s new memory law dredges up a painful chapter of Spain’s often forgotten ties to Nazis

Spain’s new memory law dredges up a painful chapter of Spain’s often forgotten ties to Nazis

by | Jun 12, 2023 | , , | 0

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In October 2022, Spain’s current progressive government approved a new law – called the Democratic Memory Law – that recognizes Spaniards who suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis.

Among other measures, the law will create a census and a national DNA bank to help people identify the thousands of Spaniards who were killed during World War II.

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New archaeology finding shows how Muslim cuisine endured in secret despite policing by the Spanish Catholic regime

New archaeology finding shows how Muslim cuisine endured in secret despite policing by the Spanish Catholic regime

by | Apr 17, 2023 | | 0

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Granada, in southern Spain’s Andalusia region, was the final remnant of Islamic Iberia known as al-Andalus – a territory that once stretched across most of Spain and Portugal. In 1492, the city fell to the Catholic conquest.

In the aftermath, native Andalusians, who were Muslims, were permitted to continue practising their religion. But after a decade of increasingly hostile religious policing from the new Catholic regime, practising Islamic traditions and rituals was outlawed. Recent archaeological excavations in Granada, however, have uncovered evidence of Muslim food practices continuing in secret for decades after the conquest.

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How the Thirty Years’ War Weakened Spain

How the Thirty Years’ War Weakened Spain

by | Aug 15, 2022 | | 0

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The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) wasn’t a conflict as much as a vortex that sucked every major European power into it only to spit them out battered and bruised a few years later. We have talked about how it started in Prague and how Sweden got involved; in this article, it’s Spain’s turn.

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100 years later, why don’t we commemorate the victims and heroes of ‘Spanish flu’?

100 years later, why don’t we commemorate the victims and heroes of ‘Spanish flu’?

by | Jan 11, 2022 | | 0

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ous Rookwood Cemetery, a lichen-spotted headstone captures a family’s double burden of grief.
he grave contains the remains of 19-year-old Harriet Ann Ottaway, who died on 2 July 1919. Its monument also commemorates her brother Henry James Ottaway, who “died of wounds in Belgium, 23rd Sept 1917, aged 21 years”.

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