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come true; come to fruition; fall (of water level); market; sell (off); be realized; be to be (DEniZZrus); come to pass (о предсказании, пророчестве • Some of her more remarkable predictions that supposedly would later come to pass were the death of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1530, the English Civil War in the mid-1600s, Oliver Cromwell's rise to power, the Restoration of the monarchy, the Black Death of 1665, The Great Fire of 1666, the rise of Queen Elizabeth and her reign, the death of Mary Queen of Scots, the reign of James I, King Henry VIII seizing power from the Catholic Church and his creation of the Church of England, and countless wars, storms, disasters, and catastrophes, among others. – сбылись  mysteriousuniverse.org ART Vancouver); hold up (In the year 1998, Bill Clinton was facing impeachment proceedings, “Titanic” was cleaning up at the Oscars and most households still had landline phones. Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines and asked them for their best predictions about a year in the distant future: 2025. Those predictions are now memorialized via polling archives maintained by the Roper Center at Cornell University. So, with the final days of 2025 now slipping into the past, here’s a look back at how some of them held up. (...) Other predictions didn’t hold up as well. About two-thirds of Americans thought the country would have elected a female president by now. cnn.com ART Vancouver) |
