Nostradamus

(February 26)

Any day that starts with banana-cinnamon pancakes and finishes with Woo Jung restaurant in Ayer is already a very good day to have in the books.

I had another task today, however, and that was to learn a bit about one of the most famous prognosticators in Western history: Michel de Nostradame.  So I watched a recorded episode of Mystery Files devoted to him and learned a few interesting tidbits.

• A significant number of entries in his famous tome, "The Prophecies," were copied from earlier works!  In our modern culture of academic integrity, surely there would have been repercussions on Nostradamus's credibility.
• The evidence shows that Nostradamus made some pretty basic charting errors in some of his prepared astrological horoscopes.  Planets placed in the wrong constellations, etc.  He received a certain amount of criticism from his professional contemporaries.
• Nostradamus predicted the world will end in 3797.  Wow, was he way off!

Teach me more about Nostradamus, the man, the legend, in the comments section!