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Assassinations Foretold in Moby
Dick!? |
The following challenge
was made by Michael Drosnin:
When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime
minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them.
(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.
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.
Princess Diana's death
The death of Lady Diana was also predicted by Moby Dick.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.
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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