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>> 24 hours in a day . . . 24 cans in a case . . . coinkydink? I think
>> not!
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>> "* In 1975, a man riding a moped in Bermuda was accidentally struck
>> and killed by a taxi. One year later, the man's brother, riding the
>> very same moped, was killed in the very same way by the very same taxi
>> driven by the very same driver -- and carrying the very same
>> passenger.
>>
>> * Twin brothers Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were separated at birth
>> and adopted by different families. Unknown to each other, both were
>> named James, both owned a dog named Toy, both married women named
>> Linda, both had a son they names James Alan, and both eventually
>> divorced and got remarried to a woman named Betty.
>>
>> * Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and John
>> Adams helped to edit and hone it. The Continental Congress approved
>> the document on July 4, 1776. Both Jefferson and Adams died on July 4,
>> 1826 -- exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of
>> Independence.
>>
>> * A German mother who photographed her infant son in 1914 left the
>> film to be developed at a store in Strasbourg, but was unable to
>> collect the film picture when World War I broke out. Two years later
>> she bought a film plate in Frankfurt, over 100 miles away, and took a
>> picture of her newborn daughter -- only to find, when developed, the
>> picture of her daughter superimposed on the earlier picture of her
>> son. The original film, never developed, had been mistakenly labeled
>> as unused and resold.
>>
>> * In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead by fellow poker players who
>> accused him of cheating to win a $600 pot. None of the other players
>> were willing to take the now unlucky $600, so they found a new player
>> to take Fallon's place, who turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings.
>> At that point, the police arrived and demanded that the original $600
>> be given to Fallon's next of kin -- only to discover that the new
>> player was Fallon's son, who had not seen his father in seven years.
>>
>> * In the 19th century, the famous horror writer Egdar Allan Poe
>> wrote a book called 'The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.' It was about
>> four survivors of a shipwreck who were in an open boat for many days
>> before they decided to kill and eat the cabin boy whose name was
>> Richard Parker. Some years later, in 1884, the yawl, Mignonette,
>> foundered, with only four survivors, who were in an open boat for many
>> days. Eventually the three senior members of the crew killed and ate
>> the cabin boy. The name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker.
>>
>> * In 1930s Detroit, a man named Joseph Figlock was to become an
>> amazing figure in a young (and, apparently, incredibly careless)
>> mother's life. As Figlock was walking down the street, the mother's
>> baby fell from a high window onto Figlock. The baby's fall was broken
>> and Figlock and the baby were unharmed. A year later, the same baby
>> fell from the same window, again falling onto Mr. Figlock as he was
>> passing beneath. Once again, both of them survived the event.
>>
>> * In 1973, actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear in "The Girl
>> From Petrovka", based on a novel by George Feifer. Unable to find a
>> copy of the book anywhere in London, Hopkins was surprised to discover
>> one lying on a bench in a train station. It turned out to be George
>> Feifer's own annotated (personal) copy, which Feifer had lent to a
>> friend, and which had been stolen from his friend's car.
>>
>> * In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I went to a small restaurant for
>> dinner, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Emilio Ponzia-Vaglia.
>> When the owner took King Umberto's order, the King noticed that he and
>> the restaurant owner were virtual doubles, in face and in build. Both
>> men began discussing the striking resemblance between each other and
>> found many more similarities.
>>
>> 1. Both men were born on the same day, of the same year (March 14,
>> 1844).
>> 2. Both men had been born in the same town.
>> 3. Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita.
>> 4. The restaurateur opened his restaurant on the same day that King
>> Umberto was crowned King of Italy.
>> 5. On the 29th July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the
>> restaurateur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident, and
>> as he expressed his regret, an anarchist in the crowd then
>> assassinated him.
>>
>> * While American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing bookstores in
>> Paris in the 1920s, she came upon a book that was one of her childhood
>> favorites -- Jack Frost and Other Stories. She picked up the old book
>> and showed it to her husband, telling him of the book she fondly
>> remembered as a child. Her husband took the book, opened it, and on
>> the flyleaf found the inscription: "Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street,
>> Colorado Springs." It was Anne's very own book."

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> But there are over 6 billion people in the world now, and billions more
> have lived and died in the past. I do not think it at all unlikely that
> some of these juxtapositions should occur. In fact, if there were no
> coincidences at all, then I would definitely begin to wonder is something
> was up!
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> I tend to think of coincidence as a consciousness of an unusual
> relationship. Humans are good at noting patterns, and it seems we cannot
> help but be a little agog at those published occurrences such as you have
> cited in this thread.
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> Regards, Scott
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