Nostradamus’s Last Will and Testament

As I recently passed the supermarket checkout counter, my attention was caught by the current issue of the Sun which reports that a team of French historians have recently discovered the last will and testament of Nostradamus.  See Found! Nostradamus Last Will and Testament, Sun, Jan. 8, 2007, at 20. 

According to this report,

Nostradamus began his will be declaring his love for his wife, Anne, and their children and dividing his worldly fortune of 3,444 crowns, a considerable sum, among them.

The highly researched and extensively cited article (read with a sarcastic tone of voice) also explains how Nostradamus who died in 1566 “specifically [said] that the price of gasoline at American pumps will exceed $6 a gallon before the end of 2007.”  There are also more shocking predictions regarding, among other topics, radiation poisoning, World War III, sex scandals in the White House, and a senator who will “boast that he has given sensitive national security information personally to Osama Bin Laden” and who will then “disappear in a cloud of sulfurous smoke.”