Something about Lincoln & Kennedy

[fortetfn]

This is quite interesting...
Have a history teacher explain this if they can........

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln , was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat !

Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford."
Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" made by "Ford."

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here's the "kicker":

A week before L incoln was shot, he was in Monroe,Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

Lincoln was shot in a theater and the assassin ran to a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and the assassin ran to a theater.

[http://neerajsingh.bizhat]

1. They awken your soul to the possibility of a larger reality than your own self and the brevity of this life

2. They begin to unmask the illusion of your isolation from other people

3. They (should) cause you to think about what caused them

Source : http://www.mycoincidence.com/id4.html

[http://neerajsingh.bizhat]

That's the height of coincidence. Isn't it? Had they known it in their life time?

There are so many this kind of things happen but goes unrecorded because that doesn't belong to some important person.

Anyway, this kind of comparison is a boon for history students in US as they need to put just half the normal effort to learn the facts about one of the two most important personalities in US history :-)

[http://neerajsingh.bizhat]

Coincidence

We've all experienced it - a friend calls just as we are thinking of him, or a romantic partner has the same birthday we do. Some coincidences are small, and seemingly inconsequential, but others have the potential to change lives. What causes a coincidence to happen, and what does it mean? Is every coincidence meaningful? And what are the odds of a particular coincidence happening?

There are some person at www.lcmedia.com/mind339.htm - talking about it... Not me :-)

[solksjaer15]

wooowww lotss off coincidences....

great find

[http://neerajsingh.bizhat]

Origins: Not long after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, the above list of amazing coincidences appeared, and it has been widely and continuously reprinted and circulated ever since. Despite the seemingly impressive surface appearance, several of these entries are either misleading or factually incorrect, and the rest are mere superficial coincidences that fail to touch upon the substantial differences and dissimilarities that underlie them.

Let's examine them one at a time:


Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
This statement is literally true: both Lincoln and Kennedy were first elected to Congress one hundred years apart. Aside from that minor coincidence, however, their political careers bore little resemblance to each other.

Lincoln was an Illinois state legislator who, outside of his election to a single term in the House of Representatives, failed in his every attempt to gain national political office until he was elected President in 1860, including an unsuccessful bid for the Senate in 1854, a unsuccessful bid to become the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1856, and another unsuccessful bid for a Senate seat in 1858.

Kennedy, on the other hand, enjoyed an unbroken string of political successes at the national level when he entered the political arena after World War II. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946, re-elected in 1948, re-elected again in 1950, won a Senate seat in 1952, was re-elected to the Senate in 1958, and was elected President in 1960.

For full text please refer http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm as there is a long list available that tries to look at each and every coincidence critically. A must read, without which this discussion would never finish :-)

[http://neerajsingh.bizhat]

Thanks for your remark dear. It seems to be a typo error. Because, if you read the previous post completely, it talks about 1860 and 1960 only.

Also, the important point of discussion here is how important these coincidenses are in our life? The link I provided in the previous post tries to play down the effort of someone who found out so many coincidences ... Just visit once, it's really interesting.

Here is the link . http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm

[hokushin]

way too freaky and too coincidental. :)