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September 11, 2001
After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, a rumor was spread that Nostradamus had predicted it. The following quatrains were offered as proof:
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..."
In the city of York there will be a great collapse,
2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos
while the fortress falls the great leader will succumb
third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
These alleged quatrains are hoaxes. The first two lines seem to be an alteration of Centuries X quatrain 72:
L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois
Du ciel viendra vn grand Roy d'effrayeur
or, in English
The year 1999 seven months
From the sky will come the great King of Terror.*
There is no reference in Nostradamus to "the new century and nine months."
The next two lines are from Centuries VI, quatrain 97.
Cinq & quarante degrez ciel bruslera,
Feu approcher de la grand cité neuue,
At forty-five degrees the sky will burn,
Fire to approach the great new city:
Some rumormongers speculated that this refers to the latitude of New York, but the latitude in Central Park is 40° 47' N. Any but the dimmest bulb should be able to shoehorn "at 45 degrees the sky will burn." The remainder of VI.97 is
