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  2. List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final ...

  3. Apocalyptic literature - Wikipedia

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    The non-fulfillment of prophecies served to popularize the methods of apocalyptic in comparison with the non-fulfillment of the advent of the Messianic kingdom.Thus, though Jeremiah had promised that after seventy years Israelites should be restored to their own land, [4] and then enjoy the blessings of the Messianic kingdom under the Messianic king, [5] this period passed by and things ...

  4. List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologized). Apocalypse is a Greek word referring to the end of the world.

  5. In these terrible times, the Book of Job has much to teach us ...

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    If you haven’t read the book lately — or ever — it’s worth checking out, even if you don’t consider yourself spiritual. In the story, Job is a wealthy man with a big heart and a big ...

  6. The 9 Worst Years in History to be Alive - AOL

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    The Spanish Flu, the second deadliest pandemic in history after the bubonic plague, along with the aftermath of World War I and ensuing political and social chaos, made 1918 a tough time to be alive.

  7. End Times (book) - Wikipedia

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    Kirkus Reviews called the book "fascinating and frightening" and said it contained "compelling" solutions. [5] In contrast, Publishers Weekly judges that the book contains "very few clear answers". [2] The book was included in Nature among "five of the week's best science picks", [4] and also made the August 2019 "Best Books" list by Time ...

  8. When We Cease to Understand the World - Wikipedia

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    When We Cease to Understand the World (Spanish: Un Verdor Terrible; lit. ' A Terrible Greening ') is a 2021 book by Chilean writer Benjamín Labatut.Originally written in Spanish and published by Anagrama, the book was translated into English by Adrian Nathan West and published by Pushkin Press and New York Review of Books in 2021.

  9. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded - Wikipedia

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    Winchester examines the annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France, and the sound of the island's destruction—per Winchester—could be heard as far away as Australia and India.