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In ], in 1806<ref name=rr>{{cite book|title=Are You Rapture Ready|author1-first=Todd|author1-last=Strandberg|author2-first=Terry|author2=last|James|pages=35-45|publisher=Dutton|year=2003|month=June|location=New York City}}</ref>, villagers believed doomsday had come when a hen began laying eggs with the phrase "Christ is coming" on each one<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33622934/ns/technology_and_science-science/?pg=2#Tech_Doomsday |title=10 failed doomsday predictions |accessdate=2009-11-12 |quote=History has countless examples of people who have proclaimed that the return of Jesus Christ is imminent, but perhaps there has never been a stranger messenger than a hen in the English town of Leeds in 1806. It seems that a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase "Christ is coming" was written. As news of this miracle spread, many people became convinced that doomsday was at hand&nbsp;— until a curious local actually watched the hen laying one of the prophetic eggs and discovered someone had hatched a hoax. |publisher= }}</ref>, but it was later found to be a hoax by ], who had written on the eggs using acid and reinserted them into the hen's ].<ref>{{cite book |author=] |coauthors= |title=Extraordinary popular delusions & the madness of crowds |year=1980 |publisher=] |quote= | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=r6avC4YcHYcC&lpg=PA89&ots=mCk1M-EBpI&dq=%22a%20panic%20terror%20of%20the%20end%20of%20the%20world%22&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q=%22a%20panic%20terror%20of%20the%20end%20of%20the%20world%22&f=false |isbn=0-517-88433-X }}</ref>


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