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Italians flee Rome ahead of quake prophecy

By BruceLee 741 days ago in General  |  abc.net.au  |  Funny News  |  No comments

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Thousands of alarmed Italians are fleeing the capital amid rumours a seismologist predicted a devastating earthquake will strike the Eternal City.

Scholars poring over the works of Raffaele Bendandi, who died in 1979, inferred that the self-taught seismologist had calculated a massive earthquake would rock Rome on May 11, 2011, though the date is not explicitly written.

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