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April 24, 2023

Heritage Project — Professor Porta’s predictions

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Professor Albert F. Porta predicted that on Dec. 17, 1919, “the most terrific weather cataclysm experienced since human history" would begin. Porta began alerting people in the summer of 1919 to this pending meteorological doom. “Remember the date – December 17 to 20, and after.” So people braced for the end.
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