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	<title>wafflesatnoon.com &#187; History</title>
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		<title>Population Predictions For Our Time From 1859-1954</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2011/01/19/population-predictions-for-our-time-from-1859-1954/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a small collection of population predictions for our time (and beyond), published in past publictions. The earliest dating from 1859, looking all the way out to 1990. Some were surprisingly accurate, while others were far off the mark.

1859 prediction for 1990
To justify the existence of a park in Brooklyn, it was aruged that “in the year 1990, Brooklyn will contain a population of six and a half millions, while New York, at the same period, will have but about five millions.”
“The Brooklyn Park,” The New York Times, September 30, 1859
Note: While Brooklyn became a part of New York in the 1890’s, the total population of New York (including Brooklyn) in 1990 was 7.3 million, far short of the combined population of 11.5 million predicted in 1859.
1890 Prediction for 2072
E. G. Ravenstein predicted that in the year 2072 the population would be 5,850,700,00 and that the earth could only ...]]></description>
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		<title>1938 Prediction: Population to decrease after 1980</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2011/01/14/1938-prediction-population-to-decrease-after-1980/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 1938 article in the Evening Post attempted to predict the United States population 42 years in the future. Surprisingly, the writer predicted that the population would actually start to decrease after 1980.

“The population of the United States will reach a peak of 158,000,000 in the year 1980, but thereafter it will slowly decrease unless births increase or immigration policies are altered, according to a report by the National Resources Committee made to President Roosevelt.”

Evening Post, July 7, 1938, page 9
Final word: The actual population, according to the 1980 census, was 226,500,000, and of course the decline after that never happened.
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		<title>Where are Alfred V. Lincoln&#8217;s Trees?</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2011/01/12/where-are-alfred-v-lincolns-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an article in the Meriden Daily Journal dated 9/24/1921, Massachusetts resident Alfred V. Lincoln set aside $7500 of his estate at compound interest for 90 years, to be withdrawn in the year 2011 in order to plant trees in his hometown. The 1921 article estimated that his $7500 could grow to $250,000 and as high as millions.
The article pondered if the interest system would even exist 90 years in the future. Internet searches have revealed nothing about the outcome of this story.
The original story reads:
TURN $7,500 INTO $250,000
Bank ads often say that if $1 had been placed at compound interest in the year 1, it would have grown, by now, to a sum bigger than all the money in the world.
That must have caught the eye of Alfred V. Lincoln, of Charlestown, Mass. His will provides that $7,500 of his estate must be set aside at compound interest ...]]></description>
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		<title>1974: Natural Gas Almost Out by 2010?</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2011/01/05/1974-natural-gas-almost-out-by-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prediction: World&#8217;s natural gas down to last 10% by 2010
Date: 1974
Score: Wrong
Amid the 1970&#8242;s oil crisis, there was a lot of talk about the long-term supply of petroleum and of natural gas. In an article dated 10/14/1974 in the Ludington Daily News, writer H.J. Heller quotes William R. Gould, chairman of the Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. as saying that  &#8221;we are expected to reach the last 10 per cent of the earth&#8217;s supply of natural gas.&#8221;
Some cursory research of various sources leads to the determination that this prediction was way off. We have at least 60-100 years left of natural gas supplies that we know of.
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		<title>1957 Prediction: Atomic Luxury Spaceships by 2007</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2011/01/03/1957-prediction-atomic-luxury-spaceships-by-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a 1957 article, predictions were made for what life might be like 50 years later, in the year 2007. Here&#8217;s what they had to say:



“Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker predicted Saturday that within 50 years interplanetary travel will be commonplace in atomic powered luxury spaceships carrying 2,000 persons.
And by the year 2007, some spaceships will be “semi-self sustaining planets withing themselves,” he added.
He made these other forecasts of things to come withing 50 years:
1. Airplane flights from Florida to New York will be made within half an hour. Transcontinental flights will take an hour and transatlantic flights will be made in less than two hours. Passenger planes will be travelling at 2,500 miles per hour.
2. Military aircraft driven by ramjet engines will reach speeds up to 3,000 mph. Such aircraft will be stepping stones to the guided missles zooming through the air at 25,000 mph.
3. The earth’s arid areas will be ...]]></description>
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		<title>1979 Prediction of the $320,000 Cars in 2011</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2010/12/30/1979-prediction-of-the-320000-cars-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 30, 1979 an article entitled &#8220;Why Does Everything Cost So Much?&#8217; appeared in the Beaver Country Times, discussing inflation and the future. The writer suggested that a $50,000 home in 1979 would cost $3.2 million in 2011, while a $5000 car would cost $320,000.
While this sounds far-fetched, the writer does correct his math and predicts that such a car could cost $40,000 in 2011, and that is not an unheard of figure today. It went on to hint at a depression in the 1980&#8242;s, which also did not happen.
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		<title>UN Bad Prediction in 1976</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2010/12/29/un-bad-prediction-in-1976/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a NY Times article dated March 5, 1976, the UN predicted that the global population in 2010 would be nearly 8 billion. They based it on 1974 data, using a 1.9% growth rate.
At the end of 2010, however, the world population stands at about 6.8 billion.
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		<title>Year 2000 Predictions in 1967</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2010/01/10/year-2000-predictions-in-1967/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article posted on New Year&#8217;s Eve, 1967, writer Andrew Squibb Jr. outlined predictions for the year 2000 &#8211; 32 years away &#8211; by the Commission on the Year 2000. Here is a list of those predictions:
6 or 7 billion people
Intercontinental travel by rocket
Decision-making by computer
Decline of US and Soviet control of world events
Abundant thermonuclear energy
Farming in the oceans
Mining on the moon
Permanent research labs orbiting in space
2 careers per lifetime due to longevity
Less disease
More psychological stress
Weather control
Population control
Personality control
Couples designated to breed
More clerks, researchers, and technicians
Routine use of drugs to alter behavior
Ten more countries with A-bombs
More leisure
Rationing of recreational facilities
End of democratic government due to apathy
Destruction of traditional marriage due to birth control and artificial insemination
Over-emphasis on education
More dangerous weapons available to poor countries
Widespread affluence
Humanely designed cities and housing
Decline in international violence
New sources of food products to feed a stabilized population
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		<title>1964 US Census Bureau Predictions and Score</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2010/01/03/1964-us-census-bureau-predictions-and-score/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1964, the US Census Bureau predicted US populations in the future through the year 2010. Were they accurate or was this just another bad prediction?
They predicted:
1967: 200 million
1970: 206-211 million
1985: 248-276 million
2010: 322-438 million
The actual numbers were:
1967: 198 million (2 million below projection)
1970: 205 million (1-6 million below projection)
1985: 238 million (10-38 million below projection)
2010: 310 million (12-128 million below projection)
It&#8217;s really not too bad considering these predictions were made 46 years ago.
Source: Sarasota Journal, July 9, 1964.
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		<title>Cesar Franck and the Rise of French Chamber Music</title>
		<link>http://wafflesatnoon.com/2008/07/24/cesar-franck-and-the-rise-of-french-chamber-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waffles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this paper in graduate school. I recall being highly motivated by the subject, reading and researching as much for my own enjoyment as for this paper. It is dated June 1992, and received an A.
Chamber music had never been an integral part of French music until the end of the nineteenth century.  There were some notable works such as the trios and sonatas by Rameau, Couperin, and Leclair, but never was any emphasis placed on the chamber medium.  The events and individuals who led to the rise of chamber music in France at the end of the nineteenth century shall be the subject of this paper.
A reasonable figure with which to begin such a study would be Cesar Franck.  Because he is often hailed as the father of modern French chamber music, his contribution and influence shall be a point at which to begin such a discussion.  This ...]]></description>
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