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  1. List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final judgement of all people on Earth.

    • The Mayan Calendar
    • Camping and The Rapture
    • The Black Hole from Geneva
    • Y2K and The Millennium Bug
    • Nostradamus and The King of Terror
    • The Great Flood and The Flying Saucer

    The end of the world was predicted to occur on December 21, 2012, when one of the great cycles in the Mayan calendarcame to an end. In the run-up to the day, the internet abounded with predictions about an apocalypse happening on “12/21/12”. Faced with the wealth of alarmist information available on the World Wide Web, even NASA was compelledto pub...

    The world was also supposed to end on October 21, 2011. American radio host Harold Campinghad arrived at the date for the apocalypse through a series of calculations that he claimed were based on Jewish feast days and the lunar calendar. In addition to his claims about the end of the world, he also predicted that on May 21, 2011, at precisely 6:00 ...

    Scientists use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)near Geneva, Switzerland, to set up controlled collisions of particles at very high speeds. The experiments have caused some to believe that the energies set free by the collisions will form a black holepowerful enough to consume Earth and all life on it. No such black hole has been sighted yet, and sev...

    Toward the end of the second millennium, people around the world feared that the world would end simultaneously with the beginning of the year 2000, or Y2K. This prediction was based on the practice followed by computer programmers of abbreviating year numbers with two digitswhen developing software. For instance, “1999” would be coded as “99.” At ...

    Renowned seer Nostradamus prophesied 250 years ago that a “king of terror” would come from the sky in 1999. Austrian geologist and Nostradamus buff Alexander Tollmann decided to play it safe by sitting it out in a self-built bunker in Austria. Tollmann was convinced that the apocalypse was to come early in August, a fear that was consolidated by th...

    Chicago housewife Dorothy Martin (a.k.a. Marion Keech) claimed to have received a message from planet Clarion in the early 1950s: the world was to end in a great floodbefore dawn on December 21, 1954. Martin and a group of followers were convinced that a flying saucer would rescue the true believersbefore the inevitable destruction of Earth. The be...

  2. Nov 6, 2009 · The doomsday beliefs of some ancient religions can still be felt in modern secular society, as was the case with the conclusion of the Mayan calendar cycle that predicted the end of the world in...

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  3. Some believers in a 2012 doomsday claimed that a planet called Planet X, or Nibiru, would collide with or pass by the Earth. This idea, which had appeared in various forms since 1995, initially predicted Doomsday in May 2003, but proponents abandoned that date after it passed without incident.

  4. Dec 20, 2011 · Maya "Doomsday" Calendar Explained. Monument text's "poetic flourish" confuses modern minds, experts say. It's remotely possible the world will end in December 2012. But don't credit the ancient...

  5. Dec 25, 2023 · Nostradamus was a French astrologer, physician, and reputed seer. Countless books interpreting his predictions have been produced, as well as documentaries and even TV shows like The Nostradamus Effect, which developed a cult following of its own by constantly promoting the man’s doomsday prophecies.

  6. Jan 23, 2024 · The Doomsday Clock is set every year by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes nine Nobel laureates. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe caused by man-made technologies.