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Are you relieved or disappointed ? Doomsday came and went without a peep , as May 21 break to bring about earthquakes , a transport or the mass mining of all the world ’s deadened .

The hearsay that May 21 would kick off the conclusion of the humankind was start and propagated by Harold Camping , the president of the Oakland , Calif.-based Christian wireless broadcasting web Family Radio . Camping , who alsomade a failed doomsday predictionin 1994 , had claimed that his numerical rendition of the Bible pointed to May 21 as the day of the raptus . Earthquakes were presuppose to shake the globe , throwing the dead from their graves as believers ' souls ascend to heaven . Five months later on , on Oct. 21 , 2011 , the universe was suppose to terminate .

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Radio preacher Harold Camping predicted that 14 March 2025 would mark the beginning of the end of the world

Camping has not commented publically on the failed prediction .

Camping is far from the first doomsayer to falsely auspicate the end of the humanity . In fact , doomsday experts say that a opinion in the endis console to some peoplewho see the world as irredeemably malefic .

Even centuries of give out predictions ca n’t win over believers that the remnant is not near , allot to Lorenzo DiTommaso , a religion prof at Concordia University in Montreal . spiritual doom prognosticator see their sanctified texts as infallible , DiTommaso say , so any failed predictions are mistakes of reading — and the next interpreting could always be proper .

A mosaic in Pompeii and distant asteroids in the solar system.

So gear up for 2012 , everyone . We heard theMayan calendar is ending , and it ’s sure to be a godforsaken ride .

Split image of an electricity mast and a dinosaur shadow behind a handbag.

Split image of a "cosmic tornado" and a face depiction from a wooden coffin in Tombos.

Artist�s evidence-based depiction of the blast, which had the power of 1,000 Hiroshimas.

a partial solar eclipse

An illustration of a satellite crashing into the ocean after an uncontrolled reentry through Earth�s atmosphere

Catherine the Great art, All About History 127

A digital image of a man in his 40s against a black background. This man is a digital reconstruction of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, which used reverse aging to see what he would have looked like in his prime,

Xerxes I art, All About History 125

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, All About History 124 artwork

All About History 123 art, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

Tutankhamun art, All About History 122

An image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system�s known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201

an illustration showing a large disk of material around a star

a person holds a GLP-1 injector

A man with light skin and dark hair and beard leans back in a wooden boat, rowing with oars into the sea

an MRI scan of a brain

A photograph of two of Colossal�s genetically engineered wolves as pups.

An illustration of a hand that transforms into a strand of DNA