In the sixteenth century, a Frenchman named Michel Nostradamus wrote a collection of 1000 rhymed verses predicting future events. After writing these verses, Nostradamus scrambled them out of their correct order, afraid of the repercussions his predictions might create during that time period, while the Inquisition was at its height. Since that time, his verses have been translated into different languages, many books have been written, many attempts have been made to understand and interpret the meaning of the verses, to correlate the verses with historical events, and to determine if there is a key to unlocking the order in which the verses should be placed. I can answer yes to the last, there definitely is a key, and this book explains it! I have also attempted to explain the meaning of many of the verses, although not by using to key, as it turned out to be simpler to explain the verses without it. In order for the key to work, there needed to be 1000 verses, but there are so many that it can become a bit of an information overload. I have used only those verses that were best able to explain the overall story without overloading the amount of information available. There have been a lot of books written about Nostradamus and his verses. This is not just one more book along the same lines. You won't find most of these interpretations in any other book. And you won't find the key anywhere else. This book has been 25 years in the writing.