People claiming to be psychic may shoehorn an event into fulfillment of some vague past prediction.

I'll spoil his wandering , I'll warrant gouty fellows , that would debar their children him . I'll do his business that way, never fear

December is a time of multicreedal spirituality and festivities, and alcohol has been a fixture of celebration and religious ritual since humans first learned to play and pray.

In 1938 the great stream was deflected to the south by the Chinese in a misplaced effort to delay the advance of Japanese forces moving southward from T'ien-ching (Tientsin) and Pei-ching (Peking); and it flowed southeastward into the Huai river system and thence through a series of lakes and the Grand Canal down into the Yangtze drainage area.