Hindsight is always 20/20, but prophecies and predictions have a way of being drastically—even hilariously—wrong. Scanning the centuries, Eric Chaline documents some pertinent examples, including: the apostles, who thought that the Second Coming was supposed to have happened many centuries ago; the plagiarist-prophet Nostradamus, wrong more often than right; and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, whose proclamation of "peace in our time" was practically the opening bell for World War II.