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Nostradamus
     
Nostradamus
(1503-66) a French doctor and astrologer (=someone who studies the movements of the planets and their influence on events) who wrote a book describing things that he believed would happen in the future. Some people believe that Nostradamus had special powers, and that his ideas about the future are correct.
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