10 unique story that happened in the past

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1. In 1979, the German magazine - Das Besteran - held a writing competition. The authors must submit stories are not uncommon, but should be based on a true story. The winner, Walter Kellner of Munich, eventually won the race and the story was published. He writes about the time he flew a Cessna 421 between Sardinia and Sicily. The plane experienced a problem at sea, landed on the water, she finally adrift with emergency floats quite a long time before finally rescued. This story was accidentally read by an Austrian citizen, whose name is also Walter Kellner, who accused the German Kellner had plagiarized the story. Kellner of Austria said that he flew a Cessna 421 past the same sea, experienced engine trouble, and finally had landed in Sardinia. So essentially, it's the same story, but with a different ending. The magazine checked both the truth of their stories, and both turned out to be true, almost exactly the same. 

2. On July 28, 1900, the King of Italy Umberto I had dinner at a restaurant in the town of Monza. It was the owner of the restaurant face exactly the same as the king. The name of the restaurant owners also Umberto and his wife's name is also the same as the name of the queen, even the restaurant was opened on the same date with the inauguration of the king. The restaurant owner Umberto was shot dead the next morning. Similarly, King Umberto 3. Claude Volbonne kill Baron Rodemire de Tarazone from France in 1872. 21 years earlier, Baron's father had been killed as well by someone else who was also named Claude Volbonne  

4. On 13 February 1746, a Frenchman, Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed for killing his father. Exactly 100 years later, on 13 February 13, the French as well, also named Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed - also for the murder of his father.  

5. On November 26, 1911, three men were hanged in Greenberry Hill in London after being found guilty of the murder of Sir Edmund Berry. Name three of them, among others, Green, Berry and Hill.  

6. The British actor Anthony Hopkins delighted when he got the lead role in a movie based on a book called The Girl From Petrovka written by George Feifer. A few days after signing the contract, Hopkins traveled to London to buy the book. He tried several bookshops, but there is nothing to sell. While waiting for the train home in Leicester Square, he noticed a book lying on the lounge chairs. Miraculously, it turns out that the book The Girl From Petrovka. It turned out that coincidences do not end there. Two years later, while filming in Vienna, Hopkins was visited by George Feifer, author of the book. Feifer said that he lost his own book. He lent his books - with a few notes in his own handwriting - to his friend, who then lost the book somewhere in London. With astonishment, Hopkins gives Feifer the book he found. 'It's the book?' she asked, 'with a note on the outskirts of his home?' It was the same book. 

 7. A British officer, Major Summerford, when it was fighting in the area of ​​Flanders in February 1918 fell from his horse due to lightning and he became paralyzed from the waist down. Summerford retired and moved to Vancouver. One day in 1924, when he was fishing in the river, a lightning struck the tree where he was sitting and paralyzing the right side of the body. Two years later Summerford already quite recovered and was able to take a walk in the park. And he was walking in the garden in the summer in 1930 when a lightning struck her back, and eventually incapacitate permanently. He died two years later. But the lightning seems not yet satisfied and are still after him. Four years later, during a storm, lightning struck the cemetery and destroyed a tombstone. Who is buried under a gravestone? Major Summerford 

8. In 1899 a lightning killed a man as he stood in his backyard in Taranto, Italy. 30 years later, his son killed in the same way in the same place. On 8 October 1949, Rolla Primarda, grandson of the first victim and the son of the second victim, became the third victim.    

9. Henry Ziegland thought he had managed to escape from his destiny. In 1883, he broke with his girlfriend. Because of the stress she was later committed suicide. Older brother she was so angry that he chased and shot Ziegland. The man once thought he had killed Ziegland, use the gun to kill himself. Ziegland but not yet dead. The bullet, it was just scratching his face and lodged in a tree. Ziegland so convinced that he was a lucky man. But a few years later, Ziegland decided to cut down the tree, which is still no bullets in it. The task seems difficult, so he decided to blow it up with some dynamite. The blast threw a bullet to the head and killed him Ziegland    

10. The story of identical twins who live together usually almost as stunning, but perhaps no one can match the story of identical twins born in Ohio. The twin brothers separated at birth, adopted by different families. Although not know each other, both families are different from their equally named James. And a coincidence not stop there. Both James grew up not know each other, but both are looking for training law-enforcement training, both had the same abilities in mechanical drawing and carpentry, and they are both married women named Linda. They both had sons, one named James Alan and the other named his son James Allan. Both twins were also divorced their wives and married other women - who are both named Betty. And they both had dogs named Toy. Forty years after they were separated, the twins were reunited, and then share their life stories that were similar to each other (Source: Reader's Digest, January 1980)    

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  ·  8 years ago (edited)

I don't get how people getting killed by lightnings or hangeds, etc, could it be inspirational or motivational.
Maybe you should rename your post tittle to "Curious Facts" or something like that.
It's a hint.

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