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Byline: Peter Mucha
PHILADELPHIA _ Talk is: Nostradamus did it again. Truth is: He didn't.
Widely circulating e-mail messages have declared that the famed 16th-century penner of predictions foretold Tuesday's World Trade Center attack.
The buzz has piqued so much interest that three books about the seer were among the top five sellers on Amazon.com Friday.
Yet people who research such things say the prophecies are almost entirely bogus.
Still, people have been frightened by the predictions, because they talk about World War III or the destruction of humanity, said Barbara Mikkelson, whose Urban Legends Web site investigates such…