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[Paddy]

In de Legerbode van 26 juni 1915 verscheen een merkwaardig artikel met als hoofding: Voorspellingen. Alleen het jaar was wat te optimistisch.

[Binkske007]

Een Nostradamus in spee Paddy????
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"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old"

[Stretcher B.]

Nostrapaddius!!
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"Het eerste dat sneuvelt bij het begin van elke oorlog is het gezond verstand"
A. den Doolaard

[ieper]

November aanstaande.....? de krant was toch van 1915.

een paar jaartjes ernaast dus....
Wel grappige berekeningen....

Ik zou zegge......morgen....
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Dum Spiro Pugna

[Pegoud]

ieper, Paddy schreef:

[Eric '14-'18]

1914 + 1918 = 3832

3+8= 11 3+2= 5

Dat is wat je krijgt als je de jaren van wo1 op die manier doet.
Toeval dus dat het voor 1870/1871 uitkomt.
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[Finnbar]

Natuurlijk is het allemaal toeval

Trouwens, de Frans-Pruisische Oorlog eindigde (bij wapenstilstand) op 26/02, en bij vredesverdrag dus op 10/05.
WO1: 11/11/18 vs 28/06/19 (Verdrag van Versailles).

Dus zowat compleet naast, ipv niet zo ver

[Percy Toplis]

Wat een héérlijk weetje, Paddy! Dank je wel!
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“I hope you live a life you are proud of. If you find that you are not, l hope you have the strength to start all over again.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

[maxmadmartin]

hoi,
lijkt me zoiets als de fameuze voorspellingen van de "Maya's".
De wereld gaat volgens hun kalender vergaan dit jaar in december !!
Vreemd genoeg konden ze de ineenstorting van hun eigen keizerijk niet voorspellen
grtz,MMM
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People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

[shabu]

Ha MMM,

Pas is er een nieuwe kalender ontdekt waarin met dat verhaal wordt afgerekend

[wvanrosm]

Dit item deed mij denken aan "History repeats itself", een hit van Buddy Starcher:

This is a strange but true story
Which proves that history
Does repeat itself
And the events depicted here
Happened just one hundred years apart

Both President Lincoln
And President Kennedy
Were concerned with
The issue of civil rights

Lincoln was elected
In eighteen hundred sixty
Kennedy was elected
In nineteen hundred sixty
One hundred years apart

Both were shot from behind in the head
Their successors both named Johnson
Were Southern Democrats
With seats in the Senate

Andrew Johnson was born
In eighteen hundred and eight
Lyndon Johnson was born
In nineteen hundred and eight
One hundred years apart

John Wilkes Booth
The man that shot Lincoln
Was born in 1839
Lee Harvey Oswald
The man that shot Kennedy
Was born in 1939
One hundred years apart

Booth and Oswald were Southerners
Favoring unpopular ideas
Booth and Oswald were both
Assassinated before going to trial

Both presidents wives
Lost children through death
While in the White House
Both presidents were killed on a Friday
And in the presence of their wives

President Lincoln's secretary
Whose name was Kennedy
Advised him not to go to the theater
President Kennedy's secretary
Whose name was Lincoln
Advised him not to go to Dallas

John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln
In a theater and ran to a warehouse
Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy
From a warehouse and ran to a theater

The names Lincoln and Kennedy
Each contain seven letters
The names Andrew Johnson
And Lyndon Johnson each
Contain thirteen letters
The names John Wilkes Booth
And Lee Harvey Oswald
Each contain fifteen letters

And friends, it is true
History does repeat itself

His truth is marching on

mvg, Wim