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They Saw the Future - by Kathleen Krull (Paperback)

They Saw the Future - by  Kathleen Krull (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Can anyone predict the future?</b> <br> Meet twelve mind-boggling personalities who seemed to know how. Among them are: <br> <b>The ancient Maya, </b> who invented a remarkably accurate calendar that gave a date for the end of the world: December 21, 2012. <br> <b>Leonardo da Vinci, </b> the great artist, who drew detailed sketches of tanks, machine guns, and helicopters...four centuries before they were invented. <br> <b>Nostradumus, </b> the sixteenth-century French doctor whose amazing predictions included the rise of Adolf Hitler. <br> <b>Jeane Dixon, </b> a wealthy socialite who, on November 22, 1963, looked into her lunch of eggs florentine and announced, Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today. <br> Did they always get it right? How did they know? Were they psychic? Or did they simply combine knowledge, sensitivity, inspiration, and some good old-fashioned luck to see into the unknown? Kathleen Krull and Kyrsten Brooker's entertaining and enlightening book may just hold the answers to these and other fascinating questi<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><i>Kyrsten Brooker's</i> wonderful books for children include <i>Runaway Dreidel!</i> by Lesléa Newman, <i>They Saw the Future</i> by Kathleen Krull, and <i>Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street</i> by Roni Schotter. She lives in Alberta, Canada. <p/>Kathleen Krull is the author of <i>No Truth Without Ruth: The Life of Ruth Bader</i>, as well as <i>A Woman for President: The Story of Victoria Woodhull</i>; <i>Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought)</i>; <i>The Only Woman in the Photo</i>; and other acclaimed biographies for young readers. She lives in San Diego, California. Visit her website at KathleenKrull.com.

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