Ex-Oregon standout Malik Hairston famously predicted he would "Carmelo-ize" the Ducks by taking them to the national title as a freshman.

Fortune Magazine famously predicted the city's demise with a shock cover story: "Death of Hong Kong."

Thomas Malthus famously predicted that the Earth would not be able to support its growing population, but technologies such as the Green Revolution have allowed the world to produce a surplus of food.

Pakistan first Test captain, Abdul Hafeez Kardar, when saw the young batsman during 70s, famously predicted Miandad "the find of the decade".

He famously predicted, three days before the crash, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."

With a sample of just 1% of the voting population it famously predicted an Eisenhower landslide while the conventional wisdom favored Stevenson.

Karl Marx famously predicted that industrial capitalism's individualist ethos would engender its opposite: a new collective consciousness that would ultimately fuel the socialist revolution.

InfoWorld's Stewart Alsop famously predicted that the last mainframe would be unplugged in 1996.

In "Souls" DuBois famously predicted that "the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line."

American history has been a continuing revolution, of which 1776 was only one chapter - as Jefferson himself famously predicted.