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** Just to be pedantic, but the Nazis didn't attack Pearl Harbor. Is it really foreshadowing if it didn't happen?
*** [[Animal House|Forget it, he's rolling.]]
** As part of a U.S. Navy war game in February 1932, Admiral Yarnell attacked Pearl Harbor with carrier-launched airplanes, coming from the northwest. A cloud bank that's almost constant over the Koolau Range hid them from sight of the base until the last minute. It was Sunday morning ... the 7th. They achieved complete surprise — but the Navy refused to pay attention and review its strategies. Not quite ten years later, the Japanese attack also came out of the Koolau cloud bank. Some writers suggest this wasn't so much foreshadowing as the Japanese admiralty saying, "This is a great plan. Let's do ours just like this!"
* Sports example: In Super Bowl XXV in January 1991, the Buffalo Bills, trailing 20-19 late in the game, had driven to the New York Giants' 30-yard line to set up what would be a game-winning field goal by Scott Norwood. As he prepared to kick, [[ABC]] ran a graphic stating that Norwood was pretty much at the outer limits of his kicking range, and later added that he had never kicked well on a grass field. Sure enough, [[wikipedia:Wide Right (Buffalo Bills)|he missed.]]
* Once upon a time, there was a man named W.T. Stead. In the late 1800s, Stead penned two stories - the first one about a mail boat that collided with another boat, resulting in massive loss of life due to a lack of lifeboats. The second one was called ''From the Old World To The New'', and dealt with a White Star Liner named the ''Majestic'' that was called unsinkable, sunk by an iceberg. He published this story in 1892. He died on April 15, 1912, at the age of 62, when the ''HMS Titanic'' sank.
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