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On Nov. 24, 1874, Glidden was awarded Patent No. 157,124, which he prophetically named “The Winner.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
“The choices we make will impact California and the country for easily the next 10 to 20 years,” Spencer wrote prophetically in a 1997 open letter to GOP leaders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
Harrison had already written about Klein, the break-up and its aftermath in his song Beware of the Darkness, from his hugely successful and critically acclaimed first solo album, the prophetically titled All Things Must Pass.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2024
As the Jewish poet Heinrich Heine so prophetically and tragically warned, "Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too."
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2023
As the six million visitors to London’s Great Exhibition of 1851 were prophetically promised, the future was about two things: technology and the world beyond Europe.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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