Four hundred Welshmen invading St. Malo, France, on September 6, 1759, sang an ancient Breton song as they advanced. A Breton army was waiting to ambush them. But when its soldiers heard the song, dating back to the days when the Welsh and Bretons belonged to one nation, they got up and joined in the song.

Both sides ignored their officers’ orders and the invaders-without a single shot having been fired on either side.

Fortune-teller Marie-Anne Lenormand was consulted in 1795 by an officer in the French army who was frustrated by his prospects for promotion. She persuaded him to stay in the army and predicted he would rise to high rank. The officer’s name? Napoleon Bonaparte!

In Banzai, written by German novelist Ferdinand H. Graetoff in 1908, a Pacific war is forecast. Unprepared U.S. troops under a General McArthur are at first beaten by the Japanese but later rally and win the war. Just 34 years later, it all came true!

The tomb of the emperor Tamerlane in Samarkand was opened by Soviet scientists at 5A.M. on June 22nd, 1941 - despite an ominous inscription which warned: “If I should be brought back to the earth, the greatest of all wars will engulf the land.” At the same moment 2,500 miles to the west, the Germans were invading Russia in the Barbarossa campaign - the greatest armed conflict the world had seen to that date!

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