Coincidences...
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A poor scottish farmer, named Fleming, was working in the field one day and heard the terrified screams, of a young boy, coming from a nearby bog........he ran to help and discovered the boy, sinking in the black muck.....he saved the boys life. The next day a carriage pulled up, to the home of the farmer and a nobleman introduced himself as the father of the boy Fleming had saved.
He told Fleming that he wanted to repay him and Fleming refused , saying he could not accept payment , for what he did.
The nobleman saw the farmer's young son...and said "Let me make you an offer, I'll pay for your son to receive a fine education and if he is anything like you , you will be proud of him". The farmer accepted, this offer.
Fleming's son went on to graduate from medical school in London and was knighted Sir Alexander Fleming for his discovery of Penicillin, he was famous world-wide.
Years later the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia....What saved him??? Penicillin....the nobleman's name???....Randolph Churchill....his son's name???....Sir Winston Churchill....
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Mark Twain was born in 1835 on the day Halley's Comet made it's once every 75 year appearance.....he died in 1910 on the day the comet reappeared.
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In 1883, Edgar Allen Poe wrote a book , The Arthur Gordon Pym of Naugatuck.....in the book, four men adrift in a boat, kill and eat the cabin boy, Richard Parker.......40 years later, four men adrift in a boat kill and eat the cabin boy, named Richard Parker, to survive...
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20 Year Intervals of Presidential Deaths
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1840: William Henry Harrison (died in office)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (assassinated)
1880: James A. Garfield (assassinated)
1900: William McKinley (assassinated)
1920: Warren G. Harding (died in office)
1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt (dies in office)
1960: John F. Kennedy (assassinated)
1980: Ronald Reagan (survived assassination attempt)
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--The sun is precisely 395 times larger than the moon, and is precisely 395 times farther away from the earth than the moon.
The two appear Precisely the same size when seen from earth because of the precise ratio of the distances
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Physical coincidence: If the density of the universe one second after the Big Bang had been greater by one part in a thousand billion, the universe would have recollapsed after ten years. On the other hand, if the density of the universe at that time had been less by the same amount, the universe would have been essentially empty when it was about ten years old.
Source: Stephen Hawking, Physicist
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here is a link to...Phrase Origins
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