The house where Juliet lived: Casa di Giulietta:

The Balcony

Tales of unrequited love, romance & tragedy is a reminiscent eternal love story of Romeo Juliet. 2010 was the year when “Letters to Juliet” made it mark in the theatres. The flick was set in the beautiful Casa di Giuiletta- Juliet’s home. The house is centrally located in Verona at via Cappello. This was the house where the Capulet family resided. One can still get the feel from the antique coat-of-arms on the archway of the courtyard.

The best place in the house obviously throws light on Juliet’s balcony overlooking the courtyard. The next cynosure is the bronze statue of Juliet. Though the origin of thi statue in still shrouded in mystery, yet there is a popular thing that people do. They rub the right breast of the statue which is supposed to make your luck stars shine bright.

One will find innumerable sticky notes and graphiti on the walls of this romantic courtyard addressed to Juliet. The silver screen projection of this myth was great and indulging as is love!!!!!

Letters to Juliet!

But the reality check is “Is this actually the house of Shakespeare’s Juliet?” http://www.igougo.com/ reviwed that, “The house actually has no connection with Shakespeare's fictional characters. Although the house is old, the balcony was added in 1936 and it was declared to be Juliet's house to attract tourists. Local officials, determined to keep the myth alive, designated it to be the residence of the Capulets. It costs 4 Euros to visit. The house contains a sparse collection of Renaissance frescoes rescued from other demolished palaces, as well as the original bed from Zeffirelli's 1968 movie Romeo and Juliet. There is not a lot else!”

This this is an obvious tourist trap. No matter what millions of people across the globe come here to see the bronze statue of Juliet and rub her breast (for good luck in love I guess).
What is your take? Do you believe in this?

A Complex State of Mind!

Premonition is a phenomenon we are all aware of. When we mention this, there is a sudden feeling of greatness because of the force of intuitive knowing. But did you know that this could be devastating? Yes, this is accompanied by impulsive nature, anxiety, nervousness and a more vague feeling of discomfort that suggests an impending disaster. One will also find visual or auditory information here. It has been seen that this kind of intuition occurs especially before any accident, disaster, deaths as has been reported. This makes a person a victim and he continuously suffers from a traumatic future foresight. 

If you try to get deep into logical reasoning behind premonition, you will land up nowhere. Such are the complexities of human brain. However, medically you will find a lot of treatments but does that really cure this trait? Generally, speaking, premonitions are sense-oriented and find its manifestations in physical uneasiness. The messages conveyed by this trait cannot be understood by our conscious mind. Premonitions occur while we are awake and are stronger than our dreams. Whether premonitions come in dreams depends on the dream itself. If a person dreams about the whole scenario of an event, it can or may happen in the future. But it is very difficult to come to certainty as a dream can serve as a premonition yet at the same time it also cannot be.Premonition and prophecy should not be casually dismissed by the scientific community as the phenomenon of foreknowing poses a challenge to science that has not been met, but which promises a vastly greater understanding of the workings of the universe.
Here we can refer to the Wkikpedia section on Nostradamus.Nostradamus, (December 14, 1503 – July 1, 1566) born Michel de Nostredame, is one of the world's most famous authors of prophecies. He is most famous for his book Les Propheties, which consists of rhymed quatrains (4-line poems) grouped into sets of 100, called Centuries.

Nostradamus enthusiasts have credited him with predicting a copious number of events in world history, including the French Revolution, the atom bomb, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Detractors, however, see such predictions as examples of vaticinium ex eventu, retroactive clairvoyance and selective thinking, which find non-existent patterns in ambiguous statements. Because of this, it has been claimed that Nostradamus is "100% accurate at predicting events after they happen".
Nostradamus wrote four-line verses (quatrains) in groups of 100 (centuries). (Note: All quatrains below in modern French are translations from esoterism.com. The translator prefers to remain anonymous.) Skeptics consider the "prophecies" of Nostradamus to be mainly gibberish. For example:

L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois
Du ciel viendra grand Roy deffrayeur
Resusciter le grand Roy d'Angoumois.*
Avant après Mars régner par bonheur.

The year 1999 seven months
From the sky will come the great King of Terror.
To resuscitate the great king of the Mongols. Before and after Mars reigns by good luck. (X.72).


Despite this prediction, none of the deciples of Nostradamus could decipher his predictions. But this was an indication to the most disastrous even that followed: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette, were killed in a plane crash on July 18, 1999, the retroprophets shoehorned the event to the "prophecy."

Many philosophers believed, such as Erika Cheetham (The Final Prophecies of Nostradamus, 1989), that Nostradamus foresaw the invention of bombs, rockets, submarines, and airplanes. He predicted the Great Fire of London (1666) and the rise of Adolph Hitler and many other events.

Did you know that after the catastrophic terrorist skyjackings and attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, there were rumors that Nostradamus had predicted it. The following quatrains were offered as proof:

"In the year of the new century and nine months,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror... 
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
Fire approaches the great new city...

In the city of York there will be a great collapse,
2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos
While the fortress falls the great leader will succumb
Third big war will begin when the big city is burning."

Well, there is the view of Jean-Claude Pecker of the Collège de France in Paris. He maintains that Nostradamus described not future events but events of his own and earlier times. According to Pecker, Nostradamus disguised "them in a sort of coded French" because "in his troubled period" he was "under constant threat" (Skeptical Inquirer, September/October 2001, p. 81).