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Comment by cableshaft

"It'll be over by Christmas" was a popular prediction when World War I started (some even thought it would be over in days) that was stunningly wrong.

While I thought this was about COVID-19 before clicking, I assumed it would use WWI as an example of how experts and those in charge could get predictions of how long something would take really, really wrong, and was kind of disappointed to not see any mention of that in there.

https://www.historynet.com/over-by-christmas.htm

parent cableshaft 6 years ago

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