A commonly quoted contender is the bit that reads 'From on high, evil will fall on the great man' — perhaps a reference to the fact he was shot from a distance by a sniper or snipers. What if JFK was never shot? Tellingly, the quatrain continues with 'A dead innocent will be accused of the deed' — is this Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin who was himself shot dead soon after, and has long been regarded as an innocent fall gu y? Seeing stars: Baffling astronomical knowledge from history by James Brigden.
Nostradamus: Which of his predictions came true? Read more about: Mysteries The unsolved mystery of the D-day puzzles. Most Recent. A history of the poppy: Why we wear them as a symbol of remembrance and other facts. The kingmaker Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor dynasty. Johnson became prime minister in July. He served in the Cabinet, starting in as foreign secretary under Theresa May. In December, Johnson led his Conservative Party to victory in a national election on the promise to "get Brexit done.
Imagine a world where battles are fought a few feet above the ground, as soldiers hover in midair. In , mathematician and scientist D. Brennan predicted that antigravity belts would "revolutionize the tactics of land warfare," writing that "even if the antigravity mechanism did not itself provide horizontal propulsion, relatively modest sources of thrust could easily be provided. He suspected that by , humans would have antigravity cars and jetpacks capable of operating for 30 minutes.
In , Stanford University professor Charles Scarlott predicted that nuclear breeder reactors would make up the majority of U. Power from nuclear power plants should be available in large amounts at low cost," Scarlott wrote. Energy Information Administration. In , physicist Herman Kahn and futurist Anthony J.
Weiner said that by , Americans would work 1, hours a year or 26 hours a week , instead of the 1, hours 37 hours a week that was average at the time. Unlikely : Though we work less than we did in , the average American worked nearly 1, hours in 35 hours a week , according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
In , Ithiel de Sola Pool , a political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, predicted that better communication, easier translation and greater understanding of the nature of human motivations would make it easier for people to connect across ethnic and national lines. The opposite is true: Fueled by backlash against immigration, globalization and the political establishment, populist nationalism was a driving force behind Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the rise of right-wing politicians in France, Austria, Italy, Hungary and Poland , among other countries , academics said.
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Here's what's at stake. But the earliest item we have is a booklet Electricity in Your Garden detailing electrically warmed frames, hotbeds and cloches and electrically heated greenhouses, issued by the British Electrical Development Association. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span.
Watkins foresaw cameras and screens linked by electric circuits, a vision practically realised in the 20th Century by live international television and latterly by webcams. Leonardo da Vinci had talked about this, says Nilsson, but Watkins was taking it further.
There weren't many people that far-sighted. Bigger fruit. Lots of larger varieties of fruit have been developed in the past century, but Watkins was over-optimistic with regard to strawberries.
The Acela Express. Express trains one hundred and fifty miles per hour. Exactly years after writing those words, to the very month, Amtrak's flagship high-speed rail line, the Acela Express, opened between Boston and Washington, DC.
It reaches top speeds of mph, although the average speed is considerably less than that. High-speed rail in other parts of the world, even in , was considerably faster. No more C, X or Q. They will be abandoned because unnecessary.
This was obviously wrong, says Patrick Tucker of the World Future Society, but also remarkable in the way that it hints at the possible effects of mass communication on communication itself. Ten years later, in , Motorola's cell phones hit the market. The devices were large, heavy, and expensive, but Motorola continued to make improvements for the next several years.
The company's first flip phone, released in , was similar to the "Star Trek" device. In recent years, The Wand Company has created a modern replica of the Communicator.
The device, which debuted in , is made from aluminum and includes a magnetic stand for wireless charging. It also has Bluetooth functionality and stores some voice recordings from "Star Trek" episodes. Princess Leia called for Luke Skywalker's help using a holographic message in the "Star Wars" movie. Since then, scientists have worked on turning this technology into reality. Euclideon, an Australian company, says it has made the first multi-user hologram table in the world. As many as four people can interact with the hologram at once using motion-tracking glasses.
Though Euclideon's invention has been met with some skepticism, but New Atlas reported in November that the company is moving forward with bringing the hologram technology to market. The New York-based nonprofit Mattershift says it has developed carbon nanotube membranes that could separate and put together individual molecules.
Forbes reported that Mattershift CEO Rob McGinnis says the membranes could help scientists make anything out of a set of basic molecular building blocks. You could print food, fuels, building materials, and medicines from the atmosphere and soil or recycled parts without having to transport them from Earth.
In addition, startups like Natural Machines are working on making 3D food printers commercially available. TALOS will take in huge amounts of data from drones, naval sensors, and reconnaissance aircraft to better inform soldiers, Military Times reported.
The suit is expected to be light and include life support systems that will track soldiers' vitals. According to Military Times, the US could begin testing the high-tech suit as early as summer The French submarine "Gymnote," which was created in and ran on electric power, was more similar to Verne's Nautilus than the submarines that preceded the novel's publication.
Rosalind Williams, a historian of technology at MIT, told National Geographic that Nautilus is not that different from modern submarines, such as a s vessel called Alvin that ran on lead-acid batteries. After the first radio broadcast, nearly 30 more years passed before the first television newscast aired. Since then, Americans have been able to watch many significant moments on TV, including President Richard Nixon's resignation speech.
In the real world, the first link between depression and chemicals in the brain was established during A group of doctors on Staten Island in New York City observed sudden changes in the moods and behaviors of tuberculosis patients after the patients took a drug called iproniazid. The lethargic patients quickly became happy.
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