In 1906, Albert Schweitzer portrayed Jesus as a failed apocalyptic prophet, and this analysis virtually put an end to historical inquiry into Jesus.

The apocalyptic plan failed, and in the magical backlash, Caledor Dragontamer and the mages stuck in the Isle of the Dead overcame their prison and disrupted the spell ; Consequently, large portions of Ulthuan sank beneath the sea.

Otherwise, apocalyptic literature would have been discarded for its many instances of failed prediction.

An example of failed prophecy with which Revelation itself had to adjust was that most of Jewish apocalyptic had assumed that the Temple would be desecrated by the gentiles, using as its prototype for this the earlier experiences of just such desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

As it turned out, predictions from Le Verrier's theory failed to match the observations.

In a 1994 speech, Irving lamented that his predictions of 1991 had failed to occur, and complained of the persistence of belief in the " rotting corpse " of the " profitable legend " of the Holocaust.

Drosnin also made a number of claims and alleged predictions that have since failed.

More than 70 years on, many of his predictions have failed to come true, but some of his concepts — gaining command of the air, terror bombing and attacking vital centers — continue to underpin air power theory to this day.

Her claims and predictions have caused numerous controversies and reports of her failed predictions have appeared in several newspapers.

The central one is Billy Beane himself, whose failed playing career is contrasted with wildly optimistic predictions by scouts.

Snow failed to arrive in Monday's pre-dawn hours as predicted, and many locals felt it to be another failed forecast — despite the accuracy of NWS forecasters ' predictions concerning the Great Blizzard — and they went to work and school as normal.

Contrary to the predictions of many socialists such as Lenin, the revolution failed to spread to Germany and other industrial Western European countries ( although there were massive upheavals of working people in some of these countries ), and consequently the Soviet state began to degenerate.

The failed predictions that have been promised by AI researchers and the lack of a complete understanding of human behaviors have helped diminish the primary idea of human-level AI.

When these predictions failed to come true, Elizabeth Clare Prophet reiterated her statements of impending doom, stating to her congregation: " We need your sacrifice.

True to their predictions, Floating Eye failed to match the commercial success of its predecessor, charting only at a mere 35 on Billboards Top Heatseekers.

Readers were encouraged to mail their predictions of which technology companies would fail ( dot-bombs ), and NTK would proclaim " FALCO " with the list of accurate tipsters when announcing that companies had actually failed.

Opponents of the mall have stated that their predictions prior to the mall's construction have come to fruition, complaining that the Superfund site located on the property was paved over rather than cleaned, and that the mall tax receipts failed to lower the average homeowner's bill as advertised.

However, exit polls indicated that most voters opposed impeaching Clinton, and predictions of high Republican or low Democratic turnout due to the scandal failed to materialize.

followers of the religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a group suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.

Camping is notable for using numerology in his interpretations of Bible passages, resulting in multiple failed predictions of dates for the End Times.

* " The End is Near " ( a timeline of failed end-of-the-world predictions )

Thousands of members left congregations of Bible Students associated with the Watch Tower Society throughout the 1920s prompted in part by Rutherford's failed predictions for the year 1925, increasing disillusionment with his on-going doctrinal and organizational changes, and his campaign for centralized control of the movement.

Despite predictions of it being a crossover hit, it failed to grab the attention of the public and was not popular with many of the band's fans.

However, over the years, despite dire predictions of some, the dam had not failed completely since 1862.

Attempted introductions before 1936 and 1944, made with the objective of controlling sugarcane pests, were unsuccessful as the toads failed to proliferate.

After an unsuccessful pro-Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd, Trotsky was arrested on 7 August 1917, but was released 40 days later in the aftermath of the failed counter-revolutionary uprising by Lavr Kornilov.

Overall, however, Meccan efforts to annihilate Islam failed and proved to be very costly and ultimately unsuccessful.

The unsuccessful siege ( the Turks managed to capture the Isle of Gozo together with Fort Saint Elmo on the main island of Malta, but failed elsewhere and retreated ) was the second and last defeat experienced by Suleiman the Magnificent ( who died a year later, in 1566 ) after the likewise inconclusive first Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529.

* The HOTOL tried to use precooled jet engine technology, but although not entirely unsuccessful, failed to show significant advantages over rocket technology

Harald attempted to revive the North Sea domain of Cnut the Great, but having failed to conquer the Danes he died at Stamford Bridge in 1066, during an unsuccessful attempt to conquer England.

It was derived from a previous, unsuccessful Curtiss-Wright design, which failed because of a well-known problem with all internal combustion engines: the fixed speed at which the flame front travels limits the distance combustion can travel from the point of ignition in a given time, and thereby limiting the maximum size of the cylinder or rotor chamber which can be used.

* November 17 – American Civil War – The Siege of Knoxville begins: Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege ( the 2-week-long siege and 1 failed attack are unsuccessful ).

Included in the plan was the unsuccessful Rockville Mall, which failed to attract either major retailers or customers and was demolished in 1994, various government buildings such as the new Montgomery County Judicial Center, and a reorganization of the road plan near the Courthouse.

He actively sought the presidency of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad but was unsuccessful, and also failed in an attempt to get investors for a proposed railroad from New Orleans to Monterrey, Mexico.

Disappointed, he enrolled in law school, but failed and then attempted to enter the police academy where he again was unsuccessful because he lacked a wasta.

After the failed effort to found Antigua del Darién in 1506 by Alonso de Ojeda and the subsequent unsuccessful founding of San Sebastián de Urabá in 1517 by Diego de Nicuesa, the southern Caribbean coast became unattractive to colonizers.

This move was unsuccessful in that it failed to end the affair, but it did result in Hašek renewing his focus on writing.

After that failed, she opened a bazaar in Cincinnati, which proved unsuccessful.

He made one unsuccessful attempt to set up a colony in Africa and, when this failed, sought his fortune in Sicily, where after initial successes he was killed.

The Parque Federico Garcia Lorca, in Alfacar, is situated close to Fuente Grande and was the location of the unsuccessful 2009 excavations that failed to locate Lorca ´ s resting place.

Successful combinations formed the species we now see, unsuccessful forms failed to reproduce.

A failed attempt at satellite surveillance of the Martian surface, aborted military conferences and the sabotaged construction of a new space fleet hinder Spectrum's plans to return to Mars, and the organisation is unsuccessful on two occasions in apprehending Captain Black.

Pendleton also failed to be elected to the Fortieth Congress and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1869, losing to Rutherford B. Hayes.

Once again, One Vision failed to negoiate with RTÉNL, hence negotiations were unsuccessful.

The early Mod0 and Mod1 variants were unreliable and unsuccessful, but were issued to the RN even though they failed Fleet Weapon Acceptance.

He was in 1810 an unsuccessful candidate for the chair of law at Paris, and in 1811 he also failed to obtain the office of advocate-general at the Court of Cassation.

* 1991: Popular acquired the deposits and one branch of New York Capital Bank in upper Manhattan, an unsuccessful attempt to revive the failed Capital National Bank, which had served most of the Dominican small businesses there.

His sight, however, failed, and in 1811 he had an operation for cataract, which proved unsuccessful.