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Evangelist Pat Robertson attends a visit by Pope Benedict XVI at an Ecumenical Prayer Service at the Church of Saint Joseph in New York. Reuters

The end of the world will come on Saturday 21 May, 2011, that is if Harold Camping, leader of an oscure religious sect in the U.S. is to be believed. Here we take a look at some other predictions which did not quite materialise.