Some of those signs and those behavioral changes are going to be easily noticed.
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Suzi Morales,
Parents,
25 Sep. 2025
Neighbors who walk by often ask about Timm’s garden, now adorned with colorful signs – something her mom said helps spread awareness about the importance of taking action.
That builds on 2024’s 126 million admissions and Cinepoint forecasts of Indonesian films reaching 100 million admissions annually by 2026, with overall growth projected at 10% per year.
When and how this messianic revolution would come about was up for debate and speculation, but large segments of the population, based on specific prophecies in the Hebrew Bible, believed that the time was at hand.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
Back in June, a South African YouTube show about religious prophecies and visions featured an interview with a guest named Joshua Mhlakela.
There was a new idea — proposed and developed in the 1980s — known as cosmological inflation, that made a slew of predictions that contrasted with those that arose from the idea of a singularity at the start of the hot Big Bang.
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Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025
Historical predictions of a rapture have not yet come to pass, despite recurring every few years.
The bad omens came early at this year’s Burning Man — the infamously wild, weeklong celebration of art, music, and unrestrained self-expression held at the end of every summer in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert — portending a particularly extra-ordinary burn.
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Denver Nicks,
Rolling Stone,
14 Sep. 2025
In the final novel of the series, The Last Battle, the destruction of trees and dryads in Lantern Waste, a place tied to the creation of Narnia itself, is one of many portentous omens signalling the end of the world.
As portents go, after a testing summer for Newcastle, this did not look altogether positive.
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The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
Other auspicious portents are appearing, Worden says, that signal initial Mars colonies could begin spreading out, beneath crystalline hemispheric domes, across the 2030s.
One of the most worrisome harbingers of future affordability is that Florida added more than 700,000 units with gross rents higher than $1,200 monthly between 2012 and 2022.
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