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A little known fact is that Nostradamus' aka Michel de Nostredame, from Salon de Provence, Provence, France, had an Italianate nickname given him by his fellow Provencal "prophets," in places like Nice, Arle, Avignon and Marseille. The prophets of 15th and 16th Century France and Italy used to meet, socialize, and exchange prediction techniques, at a place called the Prediction Castle. It was much like the Magic Castle in LA, where magicians meet and practice new magic acts and generally hang with their professional pals. The Provencal Prophets used to hang out and test new predictions on each other so as to gauge their effects and decide if the new predictions would get them more patronage and government prediction contracts, or alternatively get them thrown in dungeons and torture to death. Anyway, Nostradamus' nickname was La Cosa Nostradamus, because he used to take bets on the next big hits in Marseille, and down to the Ligurian coast in Genoa, Rapallo, St. Margherita Ligure, and on down to Bologna, which was always the pivot point for control of the Italian peninsula, where the northern gangs and southern Neapolitan and Sicilian gangs duked it out for dominance in what we today call the time of the Italian Renaissance, but which they called "the time of duking it out for dominance." Why, La Cosa Nostradamus, as he was called at the practice prophecies by his colleagues, even once predicted the year the Knights of Malta would come from Rhodes and build a new Colossus in a faraway land across an ocean and up a very long, very turbid river called Mississipimus. The specifics of the prophecy have been lost, but there is a stone in the town of Santa Margherita Ligure that shows a picture of an unmistakable likeness of the KU Campanile and has the roman numerals for 2014-2015.
(Note: all fiction. No malice.)