A physician and astrologer by profession, Nostradamus (1503-1566) is said to have remained awake nights for several years, meditating over a brass bowl filled with water. Through these trances he supposedly could see into the future, and he set his...

In the seventh month of 1999, Nostradamus predicted, a great king of terror would descend on the world. We seem to have made it past that day of reckoning, but have we made it past the fear? One of Nostradamus's most famous prophecies...

AS THE seconds of the old century tick away, and we are about to go into a new era which will be totally indistinguishable from the last one, except that it's got a different number, like a car being given false number plates, it...

Tell them what you don't like about yourself.That's the question Drs. Troy and McNamara have been asking their prospective patients for four seasons on the outrageous FX drama "Nip/Tuck." A surgical procedure is likely to follow that question — often, with unintended results for patient...

Randy Johnson pitched off a mound Friday for the first time since back surgery in October and said after his private bullpen session that he felt fine. The Big Unit threw 25 fastballs and said he was "pretty free and easy" _ although reporters were...

Known as "The Amazing Randi" and described by Time magazine as a "conjurer, showman, crusader, and America's most implacable foe of flummery," Randi is the author of several lively works concerned with exposing metaphysical charlatanism. He has written on Harry Houdini, Uri Geller, and Nostradamus. In the following excerpt, he critically examines several of Nostradamus's best-known quatrains, debunking the claims of "the Nostradamians" throughout.

In the following chapter from a reprint of the 1973 edition of his Nostradamus; or, The Future Foretold, Laver interprets sections of the Centuries which have been cited by other commentators as concerning the rise, progress, and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Leoni is the author of Nostradamus: Life and Literature, a work containing what is considered the definitive English-language critical edition of Nostradamus's prophecies. (This work was republished in 1982 as Nostradamus and His Prophecies.) He has written of his subject, "Nostradamus provides one of history's classic examples of a 'byword' reputation that persists in clear contradiction to [his having been proven wrong about practically everything." In the follow...