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adopted by different families. Unknown to each other, both families named the boys James. Both Jameses grew up not knowing of the other, yet both of them sought law- enforcement training, had abilities in mechanical drawing and carpentry, and married women named Linda. Both of them had sons, one of whom was named James Alan and the other named James Allan. The twin brothers also divorced their wives and married other women— both named Betty. And they each owned dogs which they named Toy. in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata), which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment. "| must admit that nothing like it ever happened to me before or since, and that the dream of the patient has remained unique in my experience.” before he could tell Hannin of his lucky discovery, Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin. In the letter, Hannin told Kucinet that, while staying at Hdtel Le Meurice in Paris, he found in a drawer a tie—with Historical Coincidence The lives of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of America's founding fathers, had some interesting connections. Jefferson crafted the Declaration o Independence, showing drafts of it to Adams who (with Benjamin Franklin helped to edit and hone it. The document was approved by the Continental Congress on 4 July 1776. Surprisingly, both Jefferson and Adams died on the same day, 4 July 1826, exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration o Independence. °o Taxi Deaths In 1975, while riding a moped in Bermuda, a man was accidentally struck and killed by a taxi. One year later, this man's brother was killed in the very same way. In fact, he was riding the very same moped. And to stretch the odds even further, he was struck by the very same taxi driven by the same driver—and even carrying the very Revenge Killing In 1883, Henry Ziegland broke off a relationship with his girlfriend who then, out of distress, committed suicide. The girl's enraged brother hunted down Ziegland and shot him. Believing he had killed Ziegland, the brother then took his own life. In fact, however, Ziegland had not been killed. The bullet had only grazed his face, lodging into a tree. It was a same passenger! Hotel Discoveries In 1953, American newspaper columnist and TV reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I. In one of the drawers in his ———— room at the NATIC Savoy, he found some items that PARAN by their WEE identification ~- 90S belonged to a This P man named mini atu! (Sources: Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Reuters and BBC, New Scientist, posted on Listverse, http://tinyurl.com/Igmkbk) narrow escape. Years later, in 1913, Ziegland decided to cut down the same tree, which still had the bullet in it. The huge tree seemed so formidable that he decided to blow it up with dynamite. The explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland's head, killing him. Golden Scarab Dream From Carl Jung's The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche: "A young woman | was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream, I sat with my back to the closed window. "Suddenly | heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window pane from outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to the golden scarab that one finds man Harry Hannin. Coincidentally, Harry Hannin— a basketball star with the famed Harlem Globetrotters— was a good friend of was a friend Kupcinet. But the story has yet another twist. Just two days later, and APRIL - MAY 2010 NEXUS ¢ 67 Kupcinet's name on it. www.nexusmagazine.com