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For four centuries have inspired fear and controversy. His followers say he predicted the French Revolution, the birth and rise of Hitler, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He predicted some of history's most monumental events, from the Great Fire of Lond ....

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.... did not even fear for his own life. In 1525 he received his Bachelor's degree for medicine, and He started to help the fight against the 'Black Death' that was feared throughout the Renaissance period. It was then that he began to treat victims of the plague in communities of southern France. “Nostradamus used inventive methods of treatment, and his success in curing extremely ill patients earned him a reputation as a specially gifted healer” (Encarta ‘97 CD-ROM). After traveling for almost four years helping the sufferers of the Plague, he returned to Avignon and won fame. In 1532, he got his Doctorate and became a Professor at the Montpelli ....