The Nostradamus words, roy de deffraieur is a special, old French spelling of ‘the king of the horrible’. For example, the phrases "City of God" (New York has never held the title of "City of Angels"), "great thunder" (this could apply to many disasters), "Two brothers" (many things come in pairs), and "the great leader will succumb" are so vague as to be meaningless.

Come the millennium, month 12 In the home of greatest power The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader. Lemesurier's own The Unknown Nostradamus (O Books, 2003) sets out to tells the truth about the man, distancing him from centuries of fantasy. Five and forty degrees" was said to be the latitude of New York City (New York's latitude is 40°47'), and was interpreted as "40. This Baptist educator and leader of a rebellion in the British protectorate of Nyasaland predicted the Millennium would begin this year.While campaigning for Richard Brothers' release, Halhed proclaimed that the world would end on this date. Normally when translating a text one should always look at the text as a whole as some things does sound wrong when each word is translated directly. According to the Talmud in mainstream Orthodox Judaism, the Messiah will come within 6000 years of the creation of Adam, and the world may be destroyed 1000 years later.

The Queen's death rocked the nation with around a quarter of a million people queuing for up to 24 hours to see her lying in state and her funeral took place in front of millions of viewers.

Towards mid-December 2012, an internet hoax related to South Korean singer and rapper Psy being one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was widely circulated around social media platforms. This cult leader predicted that the world's governments and economies would fail on this date, and that he and his followers would undergo a transformation that would allow them to fly and walk through walls.

The primary cause of the event is believed to have been a combination of smoke from forest fires, a thick fog, and cloud cover. A two-hour documentary on Nostradamus first aired by the History Channel on 28 October 2007 suggests that a book of paintings in the National Library at Rome is The Lost Book of Nostradamus.However, the various ways in which the enthusiasts chose to interpret the text were not supported by experts on the subject.

This movement claimed that the planetary lineup would cause a "star holocaust", pulling the planets toward the Sun on this date. Rapper Nas refers to himself as Nastradamus and released an album titled Nastradamus along with its first single titled the same name in 1999.Observations of galaxy cluster speeds by the Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that the true value of w is approximately −0. See Brind'Amour, Pierre, Nostradamus astrophile, University of Ottawa Presses, 1993; Lemesurier, Peter, The Unknown Nostradamus, O Books, 2003.