The Future of John P Franklin: A Bold Prediction

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The Future Of John P . Franklin : Predictions You Won’t Want To Miss Author: Your Author Name Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - Last Updated: Tuesday, 24 June 2025 1 / 20. Read on to get a glimpse at 14 spectacularly wrong predictions that doused society with fear and offered misguided advice. —By Daniel Bukszpan, Special to CNBC.com. Few predictions have been as swiftly or disastrously disproven as the one made by Civil War General John Sedgwick at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. There are twenty predictions in all. Under each number, the first paragraph of bold text is the original prophecy, as given in the 1950 magazine article “ Pandora’s Box ” by the S.F. Writer Robert Anson Heinlein. The first indented paragraph after this gives the postscripts from his amended version for 1966, “ Where To? Stamps in the United States’ World War II series of 1991-95 prove that some people had underestimated Adolf Hitler. Lucille Ball, star of stage, screen and television, was told by her drama school instructor, “Try another profession. Any other.” She has been honored on two U.S. Pioneering Research on the Black Experience in the American West : While many focus on the Black experience in the South, Franklin dedicated a significant portion of his career to meticulously researching and documenting the often-overlooked history of African Americans in the American West. In 1751, Benjamin Franklin penned a letter to a friend in which he made a bold prediction about the future population of the American colonies. Franklin famously stated that the population of America would double every 25 years, leading to an exponential growth in numbers.