An amazing strings of coincidences
Coincidences can certainly fascinate us . Some of them may seem strange and irrational , but psychologists say there is a reasonable explanation for every coincidence . They insist that even the strangest coincidences can be explained by the mathematics of probabilities . For example , the destinies of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John Fitzgerald Kennedy were linked by an amazing series of coincidences .
2. Lincoln was elected President in 1860 . Kennedy was elected President in 1960 .
3. Lincoln had a secretary whose name was Kennedy . Kennedy´s secretary was Evelyn Lincoln .
4. Both Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated by southerners .
5. Both were succeeded by southerners . Their names were Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson .
6. Lincoln´s sucessor Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 . He was a Southern Democrat and a member of the Senade .
Kennedy´s sucessor Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908 . He also was a Southernern Democrat and a Senator .
7. Both Lyncoln´s and Kennedy´s assassins were known by three names . The name of both assassins contain 15 letters each .
8. John Wilkes Booth , the man who killed Lincoln , was born in 1839 , while Lee Harvey Oswald , Kennedy´s killer , was born in 1939 . Both assassins were shot before they came to trial .
9. Booth committed his crime in a theater and then ran to a barn .Oswald pulled the trigger on Kennedy from the window of a warehouse - and ran to a teather .
10. Lincoln and Kennedy were both shot on a Friday , in the back of the head . Their wives were with them .
11. Lincoln was shot in Ford´s Teather . Kennedy was shot in a car made by Ford Motor Company - a Lincoln .
These coincidences may seem unbelievable , and yet they´re all true !
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( Adapted from FOCUS,August 1998 )
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