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Byzantium is the name given to both the state and the culture of the Eastern Roman Empire in the middle ages. Both
the state and the inhabitants always called themselves Roman, as did most of their neighbors. Western Europeans,
who had their own Roman Empire called them Orientals or Greeks, and later following the example of the great French scholar DuCange, Byzantines after the former name of the Empire's capital city, Constantinople. More ...
Did Nostradamus Predict the Tragedy?
by David Emery
Nostradamus, the French astrologer born in 1503, published his barely scrutable collection of prophecies, the Centuries, in 1555. Each four-line verse, or "quatrain," purported to foretell world events far into the future, and ever since Nostradamus' time devotees have claimed the work has accurately predicted wars, disasters, and the rise and fall of nations and dynasties. But with all due respect to true believers, Nostradamus composed his "prophetic" verses in such vague language that his words can be - and have been - interpreted to mean almost anything. 
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For wisdom [is] better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
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