its quite lengthy. but endeavour to skim through.
#13
On November 4, 2008 Barack Obama won the
Presidential Election. On November 5, one of the
winning combinations at the Illinois Lottery was
6-6-6.
#12
South African astronomer Daniel du Toit had just
finished giving a lecture with the conclusion that death
could strike at anytime. Afterwards, he sat down and
popped a peppermint in his mouth. Unfortunately, he
choked to death on that piece of candy.
#11
During the production of Deus Ex (a video game
released in 2000), the development team forgot to add
the Twin Towers. An in-game explanation was given:
the buildings had been brought down by a terrorist
attack.
#10
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
sparked World War I. He was shot down in a car that
had the license plate A III 118. The war ended in an
armistice on11-11-18, at 11 a.m.
#9
In 2002, a seventy year old Finnish man was killed by
a truck when he attempted to cross a highway on his
bike. Two hours later, his identical twin was killed
under the exact same circumstances, less than one
mile down the same highway.
#8
In 1883, Henry Ziegland dumped his longtime
girlfriend. Heartbroken, she hanged herself. Her brother
vowed to avenge her and hunted down Ziegland. When
he finally found him, he aimed for his head and shot.
Ziegland fell to the ground. The girl's brother, believing
he had exerted his vengeance, committed suicide with
the same gun. Little did he know that Ziegland would
survive, for the bullet had merely grazed his cheek and
lodged itself in a nearby tree.
Several years later, Ziegland attempted to cut down
that particular tree. He had the brilliant idea of using
dynamite and the resulting explosion sent the dormant
bullet right through his skull. It seems the bullet
refused to miss its target.
#7
In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe published The Narrative of
Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. The novel includes
the tale of four men stranded at sea after their ship
sank. Desperate, the men kill and eat a cabin boy
named Richard Parker.
Forty-six years later, a ship called Mignonette suffered
the same fate. The four starving survivors killed and
ate the cabin boy whose real name was -you guessed
it- Richard Parker.
#6
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born in 1835,
shortly after the appearance of Halley's Comet. Later in
life, he predicted he would die when the comet
returned. In 1910, one day after Halley's Comet
appeared at its brightest, Mark Twain died of a heart
attack. Perhaps Twain considered the comet a
harbinger of death. If so, he had good reason. In
1222, as the comet passed near Earth, it appeared to
be moving west. At the time, Genghis Khan was
preparing for his invasion. Believing this was a sign, he
also marched west, killing millions in the process.
#5
September 20th, 1911. The RMS Olympic, White Star
Line's lead transatlantic ocean liner collides with a
British warship called HMS Hawke. The Olympic suffers
severe damage to its hull and nearly capsizes.
Fortunately, no-one is seriously injured or killed.
Seven months later, the sinking of the Titanic would
become one of the deadliest maritime disasters,
claiming the lives of more than 1,500 people.
In the morning hours of November 21st, 1916, the
White Star Line's largest and latest Olympic class
vessel, the HSMS Britannic was shook by an explosion.
Fifty-five minutes later, it sank in the Mediterranean
Sea. Thirty people lose their lives. It is unclear whether
the explosion was caused by a torpedo or underwater
mine.
What do all of these disasters on water have in
common? Well, besides involving three out state of the
art passenger ships belonging to the same shipping
company? One stewardess/nurse was present on all of
them when things went bad. She survived them all,
leading some to believe she was an albatross.
#4
A Frenchman called Jean Marie Dubarry was executed
for murdering his father on February 13, 1746. One
hundred years later, on the 13th of February, another
man was executed for patricide. His name? Jean Marie
Dubarry.
#3
A French Baron named Rodemire de Tarazone was
killed by Claude Volbonne in 1872. Two decades
earlier, Baron de Tarazone's father had been killed by
a different man, also named Claude Volbonne.
#2
King Umberto I of Italy was having dinner in a
restaurant in the city of Monza, on July 28th, 1900. To
his astonishment, he found out the restaurant's owner
looked exactly like him and was also named Umberto.
Furthermore, their wives had the same name and the
restaurant had been opened on the same day as King
Umberto's coronation. The next day, both Umbertos
were shot dead in unrelated incidents.
#1
On November 26, 1911, three men were convicted of
murdering Sir Edmund Berry and were promptly hanged
at Greenberry Hill in London. The men's names were
Green, Berry and Hill.

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Interesting.

In 1883, Henry Ziegland dumped his longtime
girlfriend. Heartbroken, she hanged herself. Her brother
vowed to avenge her and hunted down Ziegland. When
he finally found him, he aimed for his head and shot.
Ziegland fell to the ground. The girl's brother, believing
he had exerted his vengeance, committed suicide with
the same gun. Little did he know that Ziegland would
survive, for the bullet had merely grazed his cheek and
lodged itself in a nearby tree.
Several years later, Ziegland attempted to cut down
that particular tree. He had the brilliant idea of using
dynamite and the resulting explosion sent the dormant
bullet right through his skull. It seems the bullet
refused to miss its target.

That gat me wondering

Wonderful

very interesting, but Africans submissions on this will be mind-blowing

interesting... no. 2, 7 and 8.

estyvino:
In 1883, Henry Ziegland dumped his longtime
girlfriend. Heartbroken, she hanged herself. Her brother
vowed to avenge her and hunted down Ziegland. When
he finally found him, he aimed for his head and shot.
Ziegland fell to the ground. The girl's brother, believing
he had exerted his vengeance, committed suicide with
the same gun. Little did he know that Ziegland would
survive, for the bullet had merely grazed his cheek and
lodged itself in a nearby tree.
Several years later, Ziegland attempted to cut down
that particular tree. He had the brilliant idea of using
dynamite and the resulting explosion sent the dormant
bullet right through his skull. It seems the bullet
refused to miss its target.

That gat me wondering

well I pondered on that too.

Greatchance:
very interesting, but Africans submissions on this will be mind-blowing

Lol.... I guess so.