Sebastiano Bellinzis

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch woman has lost her compensation claim for mental distress she suffered from missing out when her neighbors won a lottery windfall.

Prize winners are chosen by postal code and Helene de Gier would have shared in the 14 million euros ($19 million) if she had bought an 8.50 euro ticket — as her seven neighbors in the town of Heusden did.

She had accused the organizers of “emotional blackmail” and demanded compensation, but court documents showed Thursday that she had lost.

The judgment said lottery organizers cannot be held responsible for those who fail to take part and later regret it.

okay, we all now newton, and his apple that didn’t fall far from the tree.. also calculated gravity, redefined Boyle’s Law on the speed of sound in air. All things we still use and still are correct. So far so good. But lately at Jerusalem Newton’s manuscripts about a possible apocalypse have been revealed.

Now if this man was right about many things, will this be his first mistake? or is world actually coming to an end ?

here is a little intro text from CNN Science page.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Three-century-old manuscripts by Isaac Newton calculating the exact date of the apocalypse, detailing the precise dimensions of the ancient temple in Jerusalem and interpreting passages of the Bible — exhibited this week for the first time — lay bare the little-known religious intensity of a man many consider history’s greatest scientist.

Newton, who died 280 years ago, is known for laying much of the groundwork for modern physics, astronomy, math and optics. But in a new Jerusalem exhibit, he appears as a scholar of deep faith who also found time to write on Jewish law — even penning a few phrases in careful Hebrew letters — and combing the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel for clues about the world’s end.

to read the full article http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/18/newton.papers.ap/index.html
find out who newton is.

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