Check this out...
http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/hoaxes/predict.htm#brothers
Jim Burke wrote:
> Nostradamus did not write the quatrain now being attributed to him. (One
> wonders how a guy who died in 1566 could have written an item identified as
> being penned in 1654 anyway.) It originated with a student at Brock
> University in Canada in the 1990s, appearing on a web page essay on
> Nostradamus. That particular quatrain was offered by the page's author, Neil
> Marshall, as a fabricated example to illustrate how easily an
> important-sounding prophecy can be crafted through the use of abstract
> imagery. He pointed out how the terms he used were so deliberately vague
> they could be interpreted to fit any number of cataclysmic events
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Travis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 2:24 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Nostradamus Prediction from 1654A.D.
>
> "L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf" is 1999, not the 'new century'. This
> quatrain was said at the time to refer to the total eclipse of August 1999,
> using the excuse that the calendar had changed since Nostradamus' time, so
> that the eclipse would have been in the seventh month using the old
> calendar. It was crap then and it's crap now. The people killed and
> suffering in the US deserve better than this stupid thread. This atrocity
> is the result of contemporary terrorism. Dragging a mediaeval monk into it
> helps no one.
>
> "LI,MEI (HP-PaloAlto,ex1)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@LISTSERV.UCOP.EDU> on 12/09/2001
> 23:53:43
>
> Please respond to "LI,MEI (HP-PaloAlto,ex1)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: Nostradamus Prediction from 1654A.D.
>
> I believe the original version is in French as follows:
>
> L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois,
> Du ciel viendra un gran Roy d'effrayeur.
>
> Which corresponds to:
>
> "In the year of the new century and seventh month (July),
> > From the sky will come a great King of Terror...
>
> In French, sept mois means seventh month, not september.
>
> An Atheist
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Marthaller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:26 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: FW: Nostradamus Prediction from 1654A.D.
>
> I just had this sent to me but I don't know if is an accurate quote or not.
>
> I believe this was the quote to which you were referring? (below)
> > Nostradamus Prediction from 1654A.D.
> >
> > Please read the short note below, and note that this is from 1654AD.
> >
> > "In the year of the new century and nine months,
> > From the sky will come a great King of Terror...
> > The sky will burn at forty-five degrees
> > Fire approaches the great new city..."
> >
> > "There will be a great thunder,
> > Two brothers torn apart by chaos (twin towers)
> > while the fortress endures,
> > the great leader will succumb
> > The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"
>
> QUESTIONS:
> "> while the fortress endures," = the Whitehouse or the Pentagon?
> "the great leader will succumb" = Bush? succumb?
> Does the "great new city" = "big city" = New York?
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