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Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick! |
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(Newsweek, Jun 9, 1997)
Note that English with the vowels included is far less flexible
than Hebrew when it comes to making letters into words.
Nevertheless, without further ado, we present our answer to
Mr Drosnin's challenge.
Some more information about the pictures can be found
here.
No laws of probability are violated here, or even stretched
a little.
That is also true of Drosnin's book, which is the
whole point of this page.
Once you learn Drosnin's rules (none) and the method (a bit
of messy programming) you can find things like this anywhere.
The reason it looks amazing is that the number of possible
things to look for, and the number of places to look, is
much greater than you imagine.
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Copyright Brendan McKay (1997),
bdm@cs.anu.edu.au.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
President Rene Moawad
Soviet exile Leon Trotsky
The Reverend Martin Luther King
(The underlined words were found by Shannon Kohl)
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss
The assassin Sirhan Sirhan
John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy was shot in the head by an assassin who
quietly waited in a concealed place.
It was in Texas, November 1963, during a presidential motorcade.
Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln was shot dead on April 14, 1865.
Yitzhak Rabin
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot dead on November 4, 1995.
His assassin was Igal Amir, who fired three shots of which one hit
Rabin fatally in the chest.
Amir was a student at Bar-Ilan University, and associated with
an underground group Eyal which modelled itself on a historical
terrorist group called Lehi.
Amir was angered by Rabin's role in the "Peace Process" and
especially by the Oslo accords.
The text
You can verify the above messages, and find your own,
using the public-domain text of Moby Dick.
It can be downloaded as a gzipped text file
(478KB, expanding to 1187KB).
Princess Diana's death
The death of Lady Diana was also predicted by Moby Dick.
See the Princess Di page for details.
A note to the credulous
It has come to my attention that some people have taken this
page as claiming that Moby Dick really predicted the
assassinations of famous people.
Please be assured that none of these patterns happened
by other than pure random chance.
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