Ten Amazing Coincidences

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Ten Amazing Coincidences

by Suzanne Hayes

What's in a Name?

A computer error gave two women in America called Patricia the same social security number.

When the two women were brought together in an office to rectify the blunder they discovered

that

They had both been born with the names Patricia Ann Campbell

Both of their fathers were called Robert Campbell

Their birthdays were on 1th !arch 1"#1

They had both married military men in the year 1"$" %within eleven days of each other&

They each had two children aged 1" and '1

They both had an interest in oil painting

Both had studied cosmetics

Both had wor(ed as boo()(eepers

Bullet With Your Name on It

*n 1+", -enry iegland ended a relationship with his girlfriend.

Tragically, his girlfriend too( the news very badly, became distraught and too( her own life.

-er distressed brother blamed his sister/s death upon -enry, he went round to -enry/s house, saw

him out in the garden and tried to shoot him.

0uc(ily, the bullet only graed -enry/s face and embedded itself in a nearby tree.


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*n 1"1, twenty years after this incident, -enry decided to use dynamite to uproot a tree in his

garden. The e2plosion propelled the embedded bullet from the tree straight into -enry iegland/s

head ) (illing him immediately.

Lucky Hughs?

3n 4ecember $th 1556, a ship san( in the straights of 4over ) the only survivor was noted to be-ugh Williams.

3n $th 4ecember 1757, another ship san( in the same waters ) 1'7 lost their lives, the only

survivor was noted to be -ugh Williams

3n +th August 1+'6, a picnic boat capsied on the Thames ) there was one survivor ) -ugh

Williams.

3n 16th 8uly 1"#6, a British trawler was destroyed by a 9erman mine ) only two men survived,one man and his nephew ) they were both called -ugh Williams.

With a uack uack Here

!r !c4onald was a farmer who lived in Canada ) nothing e2tra)ordinary in that ) until you learn

that his postcode contained the letter se:uence ;*;*3.


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'Til !eath !id Them "art

*n 1""5, Paris police set out to investigate a late night, high speed car crash, both drivers hadbeen (illed instantly.

*nvestigations revealed that the deceased were in fact man and wife.

Police initially suspected some (ind of murder or suicide pact but it became apparent that the

pair had been separated for several months ) neither could have (nown that the other would havebeen out driving that night ) it was


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A fifteen year old pupil at Argoed -igh ?chool in orth Wales was to sit his 9C?;

e2aminations in 1""6.

-is name was 8ames Bond ) his e2amination paper reference was 667.

What %oes Around&

*n 1"5$, at the age of four, Roger 0ausier was swimming off a beach in ?alem ) he got intodifficulties and was saved from drowning by a woman called Alice Blaise.

*n 1"7#, on the same beach, Roger was out on a raft when he pulled a drowning man from the

water ) amaingly, the man he saved was Alice Blaise/s husband.

Lightning Ne(er #trikes T)ice?

British cavalry officer !a


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-e moved to ancouver, Canada, si2 years later, whilst out fishing, !a

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