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were in an open boat for many days before they decided to kill and eat the cabin boy whose name was Richard Parker. Some years later, in 1884, the yawl Mignonette foundered with only four survivors, who were in an open boat for many days. Eventully, the three senior members of the crew killed and ate the cabin boy. The name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker. 4. The restaurateur opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto I was crowned King of Italy. 5. On 29 July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the restaurateur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident, and as he expressed his regret he was then assassinated by an anarchist in the crowd. was sentenced to the gallows for his political activities. But again, his life was saved by the intervention of the same monk. At age sixty-eight, Joseph Aigner finally succeeded in suicide, using a pistol to shoot himself. Not surprisingly, his funeral ceremony was conducted by the very same Capuchin monk—a man whose name Aigner never even knew. Falling Baby in Luck In 1930s Detroit, a man named Joseph Figlock was to become an amazing figure in a young (and, apparently, incredibly careless) mother's life. As Figlock was walking down the street, the mother's baby fell from a high window onto Figlock. The baby's fall was broken and Figlock and the baby were unharmed. A year later, the selfsame baby fell from the selfsame window, again falling onto Mr Figlock as he was passing beneath. Once again, both of them survived the event. Royal Coincidence In Monza, Italy, King Umberto | went to a small restaurant for dinner, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Emilio Ponzia-Vaglia. When the owner took King Umberto's order, the king noticed that he and the restaurant owner were virtual doubles in face and in build. Both men began discussing the striking resemblances between each other and found many more similarities. 1. Both men were born on the same day of the same year, 14 March 1844. Photographic Coincidence A German mother who photographed her infant son in 1914 left the film to be developed at a store in Strasbourg. In those days, some film plates were sold individually. World War I broke out and, unable to return to Strasbourg, the woman gave up the picture for lost. who Two years later, she bought a film plate in Frankfurt, over 100 miles away, to take a picture of her newborn daughter. When developed, the film turned out to be a double exposure, with the picture of her daughter superimposed on the earlier picture of her son. Through some incredible twist of fate, her original film, never developed, had been mislabelled as unused and was eventually resold to her. Mysterious Monk In 19th-century Austria, a near- famous painter named Joseph Aigner attempted suicide on aa : same town. 3. Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita. suicide on several occasions. During his first attempt to hang himself at the age of eighteen, Aigner was interrupted by a mysterious Capuchin monk. And Somerv: lle Unexpected Book Find In 1973, actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear in the film The Girl from Petrovka, based on the novel by George Feifer. Unable to find a copy of the book anywhere in London, Hopkins was surprised to discover one lying on a bench in a train station. It turned out to be George Feifer's own annotated copy, which Feifer had lent to a friend and which had been stolen from his friend's car. again, at age twenty-two, he was prevented from hanging himself by the very same monk. Eight years later, he "There's a new series starting tonight: a female vampire meets a wolfman on an island, they marry, then tour the world as celebrity dancing chefs." Lives of Twins Twin brothers, Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, were separated at birth and 66 * NEXUS APRIL - MAY 2010 2. Both men were born in the www.nexusmagazine.com