Profound thanks to the people who did the real work, and many thanks also to the anonymous folks whose photos I have appropriated from the web:
It's The End Of The World As We Know It... Again
PBS, apocalypse! A Pictorial Chronology
A Brief History of the Apocalypse, The early days: 2800 BC-1700 AD
Library of Date Setters of The End of the World!!!
Exit Mundi, A Collection of End-of-World Scenarios
Acceleration Watch, Accelerating Universal Phases of Physical-Computational Change
The Historical Accounts of Prophetic Environmental Events
Art Depicting the Book of Revelation
Unfulfilled religious predictions
Doomsday: Five catastrophes that could wipe out civilisation
Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium
Oxford University Press, 1970
David Janssen and Edward Whitelock, Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music, Soft Skull Press, Berkeley, 2009
Joel Levy, The Doomsday Book, Scenarios for the End of the World,
Vision Paperbacks, London, 2005
Eugen Weber, Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millenial Beliefs Through the Ages,
Harvard U. Press, 1999
Richard Abanes, End-Time Visions: The Road to Armageddon?, Four Walls Eight Windows, NY, 1998
NY Times Magazine, December 27, 1998, “Apocalypse Now. No, Really. Now! A coast-to-coast guide to America's millennial Chicken Littles”
Clay Farris Naff , The Huffington Post, “The End of Times: Do Scientists and Fundamentalists Concur?”
Scientific American (special issue), “the end. or is it?”, September, 2010