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$600 pot through cheating. With Fallon's seat empty and none of the other players willing to take the now- unlucky $600, they found a new player to take Fallon's place and staked him with the dead man's $600. By the time the police arrived to Twin Deaths very minor but occasionally extraordinary. Following is a list of 15 of the more extraordinary coincidences. [ ife is full of coincidences, some very minor but occasionally other players willing to take the now-_ brothers died within hours of one extraordinary. Following is a unlucky $600, they found a new another after separate accidents on list of 15 of the more extraordinary player to take Fallon's place and the same road in northern Finland. [ ife is full of coincidences, some Fallon's seat empty and none of the In 2002, seventy-year-old twin coincidences. staked him with the dead man's $600. The first of the twins died when he By the time the police arrived to. was hit by a lorry while riding his Childhood Book Discovery bike in Raahe, 600 kilometres north of the capital, Helsinki. He died just 1.5 km from the spot where his brother was illed. While American novelist Anne Parrish was _ browsing "It made my hair stand bookstores in Paris in the 920s, she came upon a book on end when | heard the wvuites. ce aoe ter two were brothers, and coincidence Alhouch thee Stories. She picked up the old identical twins at that. is a busy one, accidents don't husband, telling him of the It came to mind that MarlasLecna Hubtala told book she fondly remembered as perhaps someone from Reuters. "It made my hair stand on end when I heard the two were brothers, and identical twins at that. It came to mind a child. Her husband took the book, opened it, and on the lyleaf he found the inscription: upstairs had a say in this." "Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, that perhaps someone from upstairs Colorado Springs". It was Anne's _ investigate the killing, the new player had a say in this,” she said. very own book. had turned the $600 into $2,200 in wianinan Tha wali damwandad tha Nan Cas Sdanan "It made my hair stand on end when | heard the Was two were brothers, and identical twins at that. perhaps someone from upstairs had a say in this." investigate the killing, the new player had turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings. The police demanded the original $600 to pass on to Fallon's next of kin—only to discover that the new player turned out to be Fallon’s son, who had not seen his father in Poe Coincidence In 1838, the famous horror writer Edgar Allan Poe had his only novel published: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It was about four survivors of a shipwreck who Poker Luck In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead—an act of vengeance by those with whom he was playing poker. Fallon, they claimed, had won the seven years! APRIL - MAY 2010 NEXUS ¢ 65 AMAZING COINCIDENCES It came to mind that www.nexusmagazine.com