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Sometimes the name Cassandra is applied to those who can predict rises, falls, and particularly crashes on the global stock market, as happened with Warren Buffett, who repeatedly warned that the 1990s stock market surge was a bubble, attracting to him the title of the "Wall Street Cassandra". [13]
Woodcut illustration of Cassandra's prophecy of the fall of Troy (at left) and her death (at right), from an Incunable German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, printed by Johann Zainer at Ulm ca. 1474. Cassandra was one of the many children born to the king and queen of Troy, Priam and Hecuba.
Groundhog Day is the most famous of all the folklore forecast predictions, but Punxsutawney Phil's shadow is famously used to predict the end of winter. We want to know what lies ahead for the season.
Professor Stokes refuses to tell Sam the dream and doesn't feel compelled by the curse to do. Cassandra gives Sam a potion that will continue the dream curse. Sam starts to tell Victoria the dream, however he dies before he can finish. Cassandra raises Sam's ghost and tells him he will not rest until he tells Victoria the dream.
When does fall start 2024? Old Farmer's Almanac predicts fall weather in Mississippi Folklore says the thickness of hair on the nape of a cow's neck is just one of the natural indicators of how ...
Thirty-five years ago, Peterson gave the world the platonic idea of an Elvira production — Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, the feature film that she starred in and co-wrote with longtime ...
Cassandra Austen is also credited with having created two paintings of her sister. One, painted in 1804, is a back view of Jane seated by a tree. The other, an incomplete frontal portrait dated circa 1810, [3] was described by a family member as being "hideously unlike" Jane Austen's real appearance.
Cassandra Peterson is best known for playing her alter-ego Elvira for the past 25 years and now the vampy actress is sharing her incredibly eclectic life with her fans in a new "coffin table" book.