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APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies

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Since its founding in the 1870s, the Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian offshoot, had prophesied that the world would end in 1914 (above, Jehovah's Witness children hand out religious literature in an undated photo).

Though nothing of the sort happened in 1914, ever since then, the religion's followers have been predicting that the world will end "shortly," according to the 1997 book Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses.

—Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Stock