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(243) Explanation

Explanation Some of these examples already featured in my book,  Coincidences  (2000, Tamworth Press, ISBN  0 9509441 6 5), although even some of those have been substantially amended before I blogged them. And I have omitted four coincidences from that book. Reviewed by  Amazon  purchasers here - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0950944165/202-5062432-1652660 and less favourably here - http://www.eadon.com/coincidences/coincidencesaz79plasketreview.php Before I then added over two hundred new coincidences. ' The plural of anecdote is not data '  "There exists a type of phenomenon even more mysterious than telepathy or precognition which has puzzled man since the dawn of mythology: the seemingly accidental meeting of two unrelated causal chains in a coincidental event which appears both highly improbable and highly significant." Arthur Koestler There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a v...