Nostradamus has been credited, for the most part in hindsight ( see under ' Alternative views ' below ), with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, and the rise of Napoleon and Adolf Hitler, to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

In 1987, Carey was picked up by North Melbourne after a series of events which would have left the Sydney Swans ' recruiting staff slightly red-faced in hindsight.

To understand how a person can so easily change the foundation of knowledge and belief for events after receiving new information three cognitive models of hindsight bias have been reviewed.

Dysfunctions of cognitive processing of context and abnormalities that PTSD patients suffer from can affect hindsight thinking such as in combat soldiers perceiving they could have altered outcomes of events in war.

Although there has been limited research, significant data proves that hindsight bias, in terms of guilt and responsibility from traumatic events of war, has an effect on war veterans ' personal perception of wrongdoing.

Annual conferences also continued to be held ; these were major, multifaceted events covering a long bank-holiday weekend and can be seen in hindsight as key moments in the struggle for gay rights in Britain.

With hindsight Morrison says that " I like Phase I the least now-it wears its influences a little too obviously on its sleeve " He rates Phase III far higher, saying " I think it is one of the greatest superhero crossover events ever.

According to critics of paranormal beliefs, postdiction ( or post-shadowing, retroactive clairvoyance, or prediction after the fact ) is an effect of hindsight bias that explains claimed predictions of significant events, such as plane crashes and natural disasters.

Robert Alan Aurthur, who was present during the filming and interviewing of Truman later said, "... an image I can easily evoke ... in that brief time when we knew and worked with Harry Truman, is any moment when Merle Miller walked into a room or office where Harry Truman was waiting ... if Truman did not ignore the rest of us completely ... for Merle, always a smile, always an inside greeting that had to do with a couple of fellas from Missouri and Iowa ... both were from the Midwest ; both had strong mothers, weak eyes ... a boyhood and lifelong devotion to books and music, total dedication to the truth, and a sense of history which encompasses an uncanny ability to relate past events, great and small, not with 20-20 hindsight or fashionable revisionism, but purely in their own terms as they happened.

Conversely, rather than attempt to critique Carr with the benefit of hindsight, Stephen McGlinchey states that Carr's analysis of events in The Twenty Years Crisis was significant and timely within its context, particularly in its critique of the League of Nations.

In hindsight, it appears that the Swedish mode of action was strongly influenced by the events of the attack on the New York twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, three months earlier.

He has argued that just as history ( hindsight ) and current events ( insight ) are core general education requirements, the methods and knowledge base of futures studies ( foresight ), deserve inclusion in the modern undergraduate curriculum.

Because the game was essentially starting from scratch with the hindsight of seven years ' work, the initial Second Edition set was able to progress quickly.

In our current understanding of physics, the Bohr model is called a semi-classical model because of its quantization of angular momentum, not primarily because of its relationship with electron wavelength, which appeared in hindsight a dozen years after the Bohr model was proposed.

In hindsight — and with some help from Liddell Hart — this torrent of action was squeezed into something it never was: an operational design.

His choice of subject was prophetic: with hindsight the work appears to foretell, in the most powerful terms, the disasters that were shortly to be visited upon Europe in the Second World War.

They also contain statements ( that with hindsight we know to be approximate ) about squaring the circle and " circling the square.

temple could not be a result of Jesus predicting the future but with the benefit of hindsight regarding specific details.

To read it now, with the hindsight of another age, is to feel premonitions of the critical achievement to come ...

The government attempts to modernize during the Self-Strengthening Movement were in the view of most historians with hindsight piecemeal and yielded little lasting results.

Pliny's narrative dwells upon a gigantic portrait-bust of Pompey, a thing of “ eastern splendor ” entirely covered with pearls, and with the benefit of hindsight, has this disembodied head anticipate Pompey ’ s later defeat at Pharsalus and subsequent decapitation in Egypt.

* 14 November 2000: Michael Heseltine ( MP for Henley ), the Dome's original political supporter, states " I have seen the inside story, and of course, with hindsight, all of us would do it differently "

To an extent, attitudes and value judgments may have been superimposed on that picture with the wisdom of hindsight.

He knew Wyndham Lewis well, also, reviewing his work in The Egoist at this time, hanging a Lewis portfolio around the room and on a similar note of tension between the domestic and the small circle of London modernists regretting having lent Lewis his razor when the latter announced with hindsight a venereal infection.

-adic numbers were first described by Kurt Hensel in 1897, though with hindsight some of Kummer's earlier work can be interpreted as implicitly using-adic numbers.

This led to many deaths from the use of chloroform that ( with hindsight ) might have been preventable.

" His observations were, however, accurate, valid and, with the benefit of hindsight, deserving of publication.

At the time it was seen as a continuing success story, but with hindsight it is considered that during Sir Richard Greenbury's tenure as head of the company, profit margins were pushed to untenable levels, and the loyalty of its customers was seriously eroded.

In hindsight, Junot faced very long odds with only 14, 000 Frenchmen against 18, 000 British led by Wellesley.

Whether the hiring of Crosby was a good idea or not in hindsight, his organisation of the campaign was credited with making the Conservative election drive much more professional and organised than at the previous election.

Whilst with hindsight it is clear that Hodeir had accurately perceived the exceptional features of Barraqué's music — notably its searing Romantic intensity, which distinguishes it from the contemporaneous works of Boulez or Stockhausen.

However, this early rock ' n ' roll influence on folk rock was not recognized at the time and has only become discernable with the benefit of hindsight.

Therefore once the role of some low-dimensional Lie groups such as GL ( 2 ) in the theory of modular forms had been recognised, and with hindsight GL ( 1 ) in class field theory, the way was open at least to speculation about GL ( n ) for general n > 2.

Generally, accounts written after the fact with the benefit of hindsight primary are secondary.

So the kind of things we were planning for, with the benefit of hindsight, perhaps weren't quite the right things.

And in that sense in hindsight Leisler's Rebellion, like the others, can be seen as precursors to the American Revolution that began in the 1760s.

These fossils serve as a reminder that taxonomic divisions are human constructs that have been imposed in hindsight on a continuum of variation.

According to Thomas Bushnell, the initial Hurd architect, their early plan was to adapt the 4. 4BSD-Lite kernel and, in hindsight, " It is now perfectly obvious to me that this would have succeeded splendidly and the world would be a very different place today ".

With hindsight, critics have argued that the two types of game gradually became dichotomous as they evolved, though the two terms may still be conflated.

Both the Chief of Detectives, Jack Barrett, and the Chief of Police, Charles H. Ramsey, have since left the force in D. C. Ramsey became head of the Philadelphia Police Department ; Barrett, who became an analyst for an intelligence support firm in Arlington, Virginia, stated in hindsight that the media had imposed " enormous amounts of pressure " on the D. C. police.

In hindsight Tarquin might have guessed the danger from the lack of opposition to his inadvertently noisy operations and the total deficit of sentinels.

The discontent reported by the chronicles may have been the result of hindsight, however ; there is no sign that the established nobility objected to the ennoblement of Gaveston at the time.

Although Keating does have a conscience, and oftentimes does genuinely feel bad after doing certain things he knows are immoral, he only feels this way in hindsight, and doesn't allow his morals to influence current decision making.

In hindsight, the operation is also credited with defining the Western boundary of Soviet communism ; had the Allies not advanced, it is conceivable that the Soviet Union would have controlled more of Europe than it eventually did.

Speaking on RTÉ on 15 May 2010, Cowen said that, in hindsight, he should have introduced a property tax to cool the property boom.

William Gallacher, who would later become a Communist MP claimed that whilst the leaders of the rally were not seeking revolution, in hindsight they should have been.

" FBI Director William S. Sessions had made similar concessions in a written statement in 1990, stating: “ In hindsight, the eyewitness should have been interviewed and a civil rights investigation initiated ”.

He established a fiercely independent Commissioner's Office that would go on to often make both players and owners miserable with decisions that have been seen in hindsight as being in the best interests of the game.

In historical hindsight these items have come to be generically called “ sing-outs ”; yet even before the known advent of the term shanty, Richard Henry Dana referred to “ singing out .”

Although Car and Driver staff wrote an article in 2009 apologizing for the inclusion of the Ford Contour on the " Ten Best " list, it was the only car the staff did not outright recant from the list, but did cite that, in hindsight, the car should have been considered too small for its price range to properly meet criteria, and that this is the likely reason for the car's failure to achieve widespread appeal.

These fossils serve as a reminder that taxonomic divisions are human constructs that have been imposed in hindsight on a continuum of variation.

The fast-rising value of the company led many observers, in hindsight, to suggest that the real cost of the company should have been in the billions of dollars.

Suggestions that a vaccination strategy should have been practised in preference to the culling of hundreds of thousands of animals, made with the benefit of hindsight, did not help his cause, and he was demoted out to be the Minister of Work, with non-voting Cabinet rank, at the Department for Work and Pensions after the general election of 2001.

The archers succeeded in forcing the Scots to attack, but their initial hesitation in going on the offensive appears in hindsight to have been the correct decision.

They did not make such a mistake even though they were under severe strain and did not have the benefit of hindsight as in the above exercise.

This study is frequently referred to in definitions of the hindsight bias, and the title of the paper, “ I knew it would happen ”, may have contributed to the hindsight bias being interchangeable with the term “ knew it all along ” hypothesis.