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	In ], in 1806,<ref name=rr>{{cite book\|title=Are You Rapture Ready\|first1=Todd\|last1=Strandberg\|first2=Terry\|last2=James\|pages=35–45\|publisher=Dutton\|date=June 2003\|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 — 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=https://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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