Cosmic twins of history
Written in the stars
Luck of the battlefield
The science of serendipity
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Master of History's greatest coincidences
misslily Luck of the battlefield
Bull Run in his yard, / fighting long and hard, / signed in his parlor!
misslily A bullet fired at Henry Ziegland in 1893 missed and lodged in a tree, only to kill him twenty years later when he used dynamite on the tree.
misslily The first and last British soldiers killed in World War I are buried just fifteen feet apart in the same Belgian cemetery by sheer coincidence.
misslily Match the wildest historical coincidences to discover how lucky breaks changed the world.
Double survivor: Tsutomu Yamaguchi lived to the age of 93, passing away in 2010 after living a long, full life.
A cylinder of tobacco leaves rolled for smoking. In September 1862, Union soldiers discovered a copy of General Lee's military plans wrapped around three cigars.
What is the distance between the graves of the first and last British WWI soldiers in Belgium?
In which Japanese city was Tsutomu Yamaguchi when he survived the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945?
In what year did the United States drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Which sister ship of the Titanic did Violet Jessop survive the sinking of in 1916?
How old was double atomic bomb survivor Tsutomu Yamaguchi when he passed away in 2010?
Which famous ocean liner's sinking did stewardess Violet Jessop survive in April 1912?