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Nostradamus Retroactive-Fitting Explanation

The mainstream scholarly position that Nostradamus's deliberately vague, unanchored imagery can be, and repeatedly has been, matched to mutually contradictory historical events after the fact, including the same quatrain being read as predicting both Napoleon and Hitler.

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