It is no secret that "Simpsons" predicts the future, and this has real confirmations. Here we listed 10 actually completed predictions from the cartoon. And here are examples like "Simpsons" repeat past. Collected scenes, recreated by historical pictures.
Catastrophe of the airship "Hindenburg"
The German airship "Hindenburg" was supposed to land on the Naval Air Base in New Jersey on May 6, 1937. However, during the approximation, the ship suddenly broke out with a flame and collapsed to the ground. The catastrophe claimed the life of 36 people.
In "Simpsons", when Barney wins a chance to pilot airship, the scene ends the same way. Reporter Kent Brockman exclaims: "Oh, humanity!". The same words said Herbert Morrison - a radio journalist, who covered this event and, ultimately, a catastrophe.
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"Lunch at the skyscraper"
In the cartoon recreated the famous photo of 11 builders, resting during the construction of the Rockefeller Plaza building in New York.
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Famous photo The Beatles
The cover of the album is a direct reference to the famous album cover The Beatles "Abbey Road", and the name rises a real comment by John Lennon that The Beatles were "more popular than Jesus," this in an interview in 1966.
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"Dewey defeats Truman"
In 1948, after the presidential election in America, the Chicago Daily Tribute newspaper published an article with the heading "Dewey defeats Truman". Unfortunately for Thomas Dewey and the newspaper, the current President Harry Truman won an unexpected victory.
A similar situation occurs in the cartoon. Just like Truman, Martin Prince suddenly wins Barta in the election of the presidential class. As a result, the headline of the newspaper turns out to be erroneous.
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Famous photo from Woodstock
When a young couple Nick Erkolin and Bobby Kelly gathered together on Woodstock in 1969, they could never know that this moment would be one of the most famous pictures from the Music Festival. In "Simpsons", this photo is recreated in the memoirs of Abe Simpson, which he led to the festival his freedom-loving mona monitor. There was also a young Homer, which was much more susceptible to the hippie culture.
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Oath Lyndon Johnson
Lisa Simpson ranks second in the "Little Miss Springfield" contest, but the title is only due to the fact that the winning is striking. Her oath scene very much resembles a photograph of the oath of Vice President Lindon Johnson on board the Air Force-1 aircraft in November 1963. After President John Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, the vice-president took his duties. In the picture, it is captured along with the government's employees and the widden president of Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Photo of a falling soldier
"Falling soldier" - a photo taken by Robert Capo during the Civil War in Spain in 1936. The image captured the moment when the bullet fell into one of the employees of General Francisco Franco. In the cartoon there is a reference to this picture. For Marge Simpson "Full Soldier" is one of the many images that can be seen in the patchwork of her family.
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