"entirety. On stage, the band was joined by dancers and three extra singers: Marc Dollevoet, Marloes van Woggelum and Marjolein Teepen. After this album and tour, singer Bert Heerink left the band to concentrate on his solo career. CD1 CD2 Nostradamus – The Fate of Man Nostradamus – The Fate of Man is the twelfth studio album by the Dutch progressive rock band Kayak. The album charted only for three weeks. This concept-album tells the story of French doctor and seer Nostradamus, but from the viewpoint of a Flemish monk, Yves de Lessines. The (unproven) theory behind this is that"
"and often deliberately mistranslated to make the prophecies fit whatever events the translator believed they were supposed to have predicted. Nostradamus was born on either 14 or 21 December 1503 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France, where his claimed birthplace still exists, and baptized Michel. He was one of at least nine children of notary Jaume (or Jacques) de Nostredame and Reynière, granddaughter of Pierre de Saint-Rémy who worked as a physician in Saint-Rémy. Jaume's family had originally been Jewish, but his father, Cresquas, a grain and money dealer based in Avignon, had converted to Catholicism around 1459–60, taking the Christian name"
"Nostradamus (film) Nostradamus is a 1994 biographical film about Nostradamus, directed by Roger Christian. The film recounts the life and loves of the physician, astrologer, and famed prognosticator; his encounters with medieval science at the University of Montpellier and the Inquisition; and his early struggles with his visions of the future. The film is set in France in the 16th century during one of the periodic plague outbreaks (as opposed to the Black Death [mid-14th-century Europe] or the Black Plague [mid-17th-century London]). Nostradmus meets up with Scaliger in Agen, France. Nostradamus prophecies the death of Henry II of France in"
"in the year 1672. The predictions do not follow chronological coherence and were written combining French, Greek, Latin and Occitan. It is believed that it contains anagrams, mythological and astrological references, in a subjective language that makes comprehension difficult. Some scholars claim that this was a resource used by Nostradamus to evade the Holy Inquisition, for fear of being persecuted for heresy. Most of the quatrains deal with disasters, and Nostradamus gained notoriety for the belief in his ability to predict the future. Les Propheties Les Propheties (The Prophecies) is a collection of prophecies by French physician Nostradamus, the first"
"to some degree for his cryptic esoteric writings about the future, reportedly derived through a use of a crystal ball. Nostradamus was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of foreknowledge of future events. He is best known for his book ""Les Propheties"" (""The Prophecies""), the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since its publication, Nostradamus has attracted an esoteric following that, along with the popularistic press, credits him with foreseeing world events. His esoteric cryptic foreseeings have in some cases been assimilated to the results of applying the alleged Bible code, as well as to other"
"US and 500,000 copies worldwide as of 2009. ""Nostradamus"" centres on the life and times of the seer. The first disc details various forecasts he has about the future and the end of the world. Credits adapted from liner notes: Nostradamus (album) Nostradamus is the sixteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, focusing on the 16th-century writer Nostradamus. It is a double album. The band's first concept album with Rob Halford, it was originally intended to be released in late 2006 before being pushed back to a 2007 release, and was finally released in June 2008 on"
"Ben Goto Goto was born to a Russian-Orthodox family in Hakodate, Hokkaido. Early in his career Gotō published works dealing with issues of the Second World War as well as several books supportive of Sōka Gakkai and its controversial leader, Daisaku Ikeda. He was working as a freelance writer for various women's magazines when, in 1973, he published a book named ""ノストラダムスの大予言"" (Nostradamus no daiyogen; ""The Prophecies of Nostradamus""), which introduced Nostradamus and his prophecies to a mainstream Japanese audience for the first time. He focuses particularly on a quatrain appearing to predict a catastrophe occurring in 1999. Against a"
"he began working as an astrologer for various wealthy patrons. Catherine de' Medici became one of his foremost supporters. His ""Les Propheties"", published in 1555, relied heavily on historical and literary precedent and initially received mixed reception. He suffered from severe gout towards the end of his life, which eventually developed in edema. He died on 2 July 1566. Many popular authors have retold apocryphal legends about his life. In the years since the publication of his ""Les Propheties"", Nostradamus has attracted a large number of supporters, who, along with much of the popular press, credit him with having accurately"
"prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and part of Asia Minor. With the exception of Roberts, these books and their many popular imitators were almost unanimous not merely about Nostradamus's powers of prophecy but also in inventing intriguing aspects of his purported biography: that he had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree; after returning there in 1529, he had successfully taken his medical doctorate;"
"opposed to the Protestant Reformation. But it seems he could have dabbled in horoscopes, necromancy, scrying, and good luck charms such as the hawthorn rod. Following popular trends, he wrote an almanac for 1550, for the first time in print Latinising his name to Nostradamus. He was so encouraged by the almanac's success that he decided to write one or more annually. Taken together, they are known to have contained at least 6,338 prophecies, as well as at least eleven annual calendars, all of them starting on 1 January and not, as is sometimes supposed, in March. It was mainly"
"Nostradamus (album) Nostradamus is the sixteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, focusing on the 16th-century writer Nostradamus. It is a double album. The band's first concept album with Rob Halford, it was originally intended to be released in late 2006 before being pushed back to a 2007 release, and was finally released in June 2008 on Epic Records. It is the band's final album to feature K. K. Downing, before his retirement. Judas Priest toured with Motörhead, Heaven & Hell, and Testament on the Metal Masters Tour to promote ""Nostradamus"". The band also performed a world"
"seeking a peace agreement with the United Kingdom, Hitler issued the ""Aktion Hess"", a mandatory prosecution of any divinator or future-teller in all Nazi-occupied countries. Nostradamus is the subject of many films and videos, including: The television series ""Alias"" prominently features the character Milo Rambaldi, a fictional prophet who seems to be an amalgam of Nostradamus and the non-prophetic but visionary inventor, artist, and genius Leonardo da Vinci. In the science fiction series ""First Wave"", the protagonists use a previously unknown book of quatrains of Nostradamus to fight back against an alien invasion. Nostradamus was also a regular character on"
"was in opposition to the tradition carried by the Arab astronomer Albumasar (787-886) whose ""Introductorium in Astronomiam"" and ""De Magnis Coniunctionibus"" argued the view that both individual actions and larger scale history are determined by the stars. Renaissance scholars commonly practised astrology. Gerolamo Cardano cast the horoscope of king Edward VI of England, while John Dee was the personal astrologer to queen Elizabeth I of England. Catherine de Medici paid Michael Nostradamus in 1566 to verify the prediction of the death of her husband, king Henry II of France made by her astrologer Lucus Gauricus. Major astronomers who practised as"
"contained at least 6,338 quatrains or prophecies, as well as at least eleven annual calendars. Most of the quatrains deal with disasters, such as plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders, droughts, and battles – all undated. Nostradamus is a controversial figure. His many enthusiasts, as well as the popular press, credit him with predicting many major world events. Interest in his work is still considerable, especially in the media and in popular culture. By contrast, most academic scholars maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus' quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or"
"Nostradamus (video game) Nostradamus is a vertically scrolling arcade shoot 'em up released by Face in 1993. Players control either Dalas (player one) or Joanna (player two) to shoot down many different enemies and then defeat the level boss to advance through the game's nine stages. According to one of Nostradamus' supposed prophecies, in July 1999, a great leader would come from the sky to rebirth an old ruler over a lost province on Earth. In the game's story, this prediction comes true in the form of an alien invasion. Originating from Saturn, the alien invasion force quickly attacks many"
"Oscar. Nostradamus in popular culture The prophecies of the 16th century author Nostradamus have become a ubiquitous part of the popular culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. As well as being the subject of hundreds of books (both fiction and non-fiction), Nostradamus' life has been depicted in several films (to date, inaccurately), and his life and prophecies continue to be a subject of media interest. In the Internet age, there have also been several well-known hoaxes, where quatrains in the style of Nostradamus have been circulated by e-mail. The most well-known example concerns the attack on New York City's"
"Cleostratus Cleostratus (; b. c. 520 BC; d. possibly 432 BC) was an astronomer of ancient Greece. He was a native of Tenedos. He is believed by ancient historians to have introduced the zodiac (beginning with Aries and Sagittarius) and the solar calendar. According to J. Webb, Cleostratus took his ideas from the Babylonians. There is little primary material to credit any person with the creation or design of the Zodiac. Historical research into this has shown translation issues and coincidences including the Tenedos connection with the Philosopher Thales. Historical writings also refer to Cleostratus as a means of establishing"
"(Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος; c. 90 – c. 168), known in English as Ptolemy, was a Greek geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who had written about Golden Chersonese, which indicates trade with India and China has existed since the 1st century AD., As early as the 1st century AD, Southeast Asia was the place of a network of coastal city-states, the centre of which was the ancient Khmer Funan kingdom in the south of what is now Vietnam. This network encompassed the southern part of the Indochinese peninsula and the western part of the Indonesian archipelago. These coastal cities had a continuous"
"investigations raise the possibility that ethylene gas caused the Pythia's state of inspiration. One of the most enduring historical references to what some consider to be psychic ability is the prophecies of Michel de Nostredame (1503–1566), often Latinized to Nostradamus, published during the French Renaissance period. Nostradamus was a French apothecary and seer who wrote collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide and have rarely been out of print since his death. He is best known for his book ""Les Propheties"", the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Taken together, his written works are known to have"
"are exactly the same. Certainly there is no warrant for assuming—as would-be ""code-breakers"" are prone to do—that either the spellings or the punctuation of any edition are Nostradamus's originals. The ""Almanacs"", by far the most popular of his works, were published annually from 1550 until his death. He often published two or three in a year, entitled either ""Almanachs"" (detailed predictions), ""Prognostications"" or ""Presages"" (more generalised predictions). Nostradamus was not only a diviner, but a professional healer. It is known that he wrote at least two books on medical science. One was an extremely free translation (or rather a paraphrase)"
"when the child was only one year old. At the age of 14 Nostradamus entered the University of Avignon to study for his baccalaureate. After little more than a year (when he would have studied the regular trivium of grammar, rhetoric and logic rather than the later quadrivium of geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy/astrology), he was forced to leave Avignon when the university closed its doors during an outbreak of the plague. After leaving Avignon, Nostradamus, by his own account, traveled the countryside for eight years from 1521 researching herbal remedies. In 1529, after some years as an apothecary, he"
"any extant edition. The quatrains, published in a book titled ""Les Propheties"" (The Prophecies), received a mixed reaction when they were published. Some people thought Nostradamus was a servant of evil, a fake, or insane, while many of the elite evidently thought otherwise. Catherine de' Medici, wife of King Henry II of France, was one of Nostradamus's greatest admirers. After reading his almanacs for 1555, which hinted at unnamed threats to the royal family, she summoned him to Paris to explain them and to draw up horoscopes for her children. At the time, he feared that he would be beheaded,"
"settled in Salon-de-Provence in the house which exists today, where he married a rich widow named Anne Ponsarde, with whom he had six children—three daughters and three sons. Between 1556 and 1567 he and his wife acquired a one-thirteenth share in a huge canal project, organised by Adam de Craponne, to create the Canal de Craponne to irrigate the largely waterless Salon-de-Provence and the nearby Désert de la Crau from the river Durance. After another visit to Italy, Nostradamus began to move away from medicine and toward the ""occult"", although evidence suggests that he remained a Roman Catholic and was"
"by his host, the then Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1525. No fewer than five of the planets were in the same signs on both occasions. The September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City's World Trade Center led to immediate speculation as to whether Nostradamus had predicted the event. Almost as soon as the event had happened, the relevant Internet sites were deluged with inquiries. In response, Nostradamus enthusiasts started searching for a Nostradamus quatrain that could be said to have done so, coming up with interpretations of Quatrains I.87, VI.97 and X.72. However, the various ways in"
"Nostradamus in popular culture The prophecies of the 16th century author Nostradamus have become a ubiquitous part of the popular culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. As well as being the subject of hundreds of books (both fiction and non-fiction), Nostradamus' life has been depicted in several films (to date, inaccurately), and his life and prophecies continue to be a subject of media interest. In the Internet age, there have also been several well-known hoaxes, where quatrains in the style of Nostradamus have been circulated by e-mail. The most well-known example concerns the attack on New York City's World"
"which the enthusiasts chose to interpret the text were not supported by experts on the subject. In addition, Nostradamus himself in his dedicatory letter to King Henri II states that his prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and part of Asia Minor only. The nearest that the former could come up with was quatrain VI.97, which in the original 1557 edition ran: With ""instant"" evidently a version of the Latin ""instanter"" ('violently, vehemently'), a reasonable English translation (after Lemesurier) would thus appear to be: 'Five and forty degrees' was said to be the latitude of New York City ( New"
"""Angolmois"", doesn't exist in French anymore), but merely refers to the well-known French region of Angoumois, of whose capital (Angoulême) Francis I was duke: he was thus, as the verse states, ""Le grand Roy d'Angolmois"" ('the great King from Angoumois') of Nostradamus's own day. In these and other ways, Nostradamus's statement in his open letter to his son Cesar that his quatrains were ""written in a nebulous rather than plainly prophetic form"" is widely taken by enthusiasts as ""carte blanche"" for suggesting that they can mean almost anything that they want them to say. Some have interpreted the writings as"
"Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy is an adventure video game released in 2007 that was developed by Kheops, Mzone and Totm. It was a co-production by Elektrogames, Kheops Studio, MC2, Mzone and Totm, and is published in the US by MC2. The game takes place in March 1566, in Salon de Provence, France, when the court of king Charles IX is touring France. His mother, Catherine de Médicis, who is the victim of strange curse, lost power 3 years previously. She decides to pay a visit to her doctor and astrologer, Michel de Nostre-Dame, better known as"
"a jousting match. Nostradamus also says that he ""constantly has this word"" Hister on his mind. The film depicts Nostradamus's rise in influence, because of both his success in treating plague and his predictions, culminating in his appointment as court physician to Charles IX of France (son of Henry II of France). Nostradamus (film) Nostradamus is a 1994 biographical film about Nostradamus, directed by Roger Christian. The film recounts the life and loves of the physician, astrologer, and famed prognosticator; his encounters with medieval science at the University of Montpellier and the Inquisition; and his early struggles with his visions"
"Nostradamus and others. Ohlmarks was born in Kristianstad, Sweden and was the son of wholesaler Joel Ohlmarks and Anna-Lisa Larsson. He earned a Licentiate of Philosophy degree in 1935 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1937. Ohlmarks was Swedish lecturer in Tübingen from 1933 to 1934 and in Reykjavík from 1935 to 1936. He was docent and associate professor in the Swedish language in Greifswald from 1941 to 1945. Ohlmarks was director of Europafilm's manuscript department from 1950 to 1959, visiting professor in Zürich in 1965 and head of the Institut für vergleichende Felsbildforschung in Rheinklingen in 1966. He"
"Johannes Stadius Johannes Stadius or Estadius (Dutch: ""Jan Van Ostaeyen""; French: ""Jean Stade"") (ca. 1 May 1527 – 17 June 1579), was a Flemish astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician. He was one of the important late 16th-century makers of ephemerides, which gave the positions of naturally occurring astronomical objects as well as artificial satellites in the sky at a given time or times. Born ""Jan Van Ostaeyen"" in the town of Loenhout (""Loennouthesius"", meaning 'from Loenhout', is sometimes appended to his Latin surname) in the Duchy of Brabant, Stadius grew up in the ""Schaliënhuis"" on the old Dorpsstraat, which was one"
"and over again for the last two millennia, so the soundest conclusion is that there is nothing in them.” In his book ""The Essential Nostradamus"", Smoley attempts to root Nostradamus in his own context in 16th-century France. He contends, for example, that the mysterious figure Hister mentioned in Nostradamus's prophecies was not, as is often claimed, a prophecy of Adolf Hitler but a metonymy for the Austrian Empire of the time, on the grounds that Ister (modified by Nostradamus to “Hister”) is an ancient name for the Danube, the principal river of Austria. Smoley's general attitude toward his subject can"
"In 1531 Nostradamus was invited by Jules-César Scaliger, a leading Renaissance scholar, to come to Agen. There he married a woman of uncertain name (possibly Henriette d'Encausse), who bore him two children. In 1534 his wife and children died, presumably from the plague. After their deaths, he continued to travel, passing through France and possibly Italy. On his return in 1545, he assisted the prominent physician Louis Serre in his fight against a major plague outbreak in Marseille, and then tackled further outbreaks of disease on his own in Salon-de-Provence and in the regional capital, Aix-en-Provence. Finally, in 1547, he"