Coincidences between Lincoln &
Kennedy
The
following chart compares the amazing coincidences in the deaths of Lincoln and
Kennedy. Some items that are commonly listed in this comparison have been
deleted as incorrect, thanks to reader feedback.
Lincoln
|
Kennedy
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Lincoln
was elected to Congress in 1846
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Kennedy
was elected to Congress in 1946
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He
was elected President in 1860
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He
was elected President in 1960
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His
wife lost a child while living in the White House
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His
wife lost a child while living in the White House
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He
was directly concerned with Civil Rights
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He
was directly concerned with Civil Rights
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Lincoln
had a secretary named Kennedy who told him not to go to the theater *1
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Kennedy
had a secretary named Lincoln who told him not to go to Dallas *2
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Lincoln
was shot in the back of the head in the presence of his wife
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Kennedy
was shot in the back of the head in the presence of his wife
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Lincoln
shot in the Ford Theatre
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Kennedy
shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford
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He
was shot on a Friday
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He
was shot on a Friday
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The
assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was known by three names, comprised of fifteen
letters
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The
assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was known by three names, comprised of fifteen
letters
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Booth
shot Lincoln in a theater and fled to a warehouse *3
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Oswald
shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theater
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Booth
was killed before being brought to trial
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Oswald
was killed before being brought to trial
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There
were theories that Booth was part of a greater conspiracy
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There
were theories that Oswald was part of a greater conspiracy
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Lincoln's
successor was Andrew Johnson, born in 1808
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Kennedy's
successor was Lyndon Johnson, born in 1908
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*1
Note: It is an urban myth that Lincoln
had a secretary named Kennedy. There is no record of that.
*2
Note: There is no record whether or not
Kennedy's secretary warned him.
*3
Note: Booth actually fled to a farm and
was killed in a tobacco barn. It might be a stretch to call it a warehouse. But
two years after his death, Booth's body was temporarily moved to a warehouse.
Also, after the assassination, the government closed the Ford Theatre and
turned it into a warehouse.
Ernest Vincent Wright (1872 – October 7, 1939) was an American author known for his book ‘Gadsby ‘ a 50,000-word novel which did not use the letter "e" (except for the introduction and a note at the end)
- రాయలసీమ కు ఆ పేరు పెట్టింది గాడిచర్ల హరిసర్వోత్తమ రావు. 1928 లో కర్నూలు జిల్లా నంద్యాలలో సర్వేపల్లి రాధాకృష్ణన్ అధ్యక్షతన జరిగిన ఆంధ్ర మహాసభలో ఆయన ఈ పేరు పెట్టాడు. అంతకు ముందు దానిని దత్తమండలం (Ceded) అని పిలిచేవారు.
- తొలి తెలుగు జేమ్స్ బాండ్ సినిమా గూఢచారి 116 (1966)
- తొలి తెలుగు కౌబాయ్ సినిమా మోసగాళ్ళకు మోసగాడు (1971) .
- తొలి తెలుగు స్కోప్ సినిమా అల్లూరి సీతారామరాజు (1974) .
- జాతీయ బహుమతి పొందిన తొలి తెలుగు పాట 'తెలుగువీర లేవరా' (1974) .
- తొలి తెలుగు 70 ఎం.ఎం. సినిమా సింహాసనం (1986) .
- The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)
- The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
- Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
- Each kidney contains 1 million individual filters. They filter an average of around 1.3 liters (2.2 pints) of blood per minute, and expel up to 1.4 liters (2.5 pints) a day of urine.
- When you sleep, you grow by about 8mm (0.3in). The next day you shrink back to your former height. The reason is that your cartilage discs are squeezed like sponges by the force of gravity when you stand or sit.
- A cockroach can live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.
- The Hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards
- Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.
- Internet turns 30 years old : The Internet which has transformed the lives of billions of people across the world, turned 30 on Tuesday. The computer network officially began its technological revolution when it fully substituted previous networking systems on 1 January, 1983.
- The first month of the year i.e. January has been named after God Janus (Latin word for door), in the Roman calendar. Janus is the God with two faces, one looking backwards and one forward, at the same time and marks the ‘spirit of the opening’
- Traditionally, it was thought that people could alter the luck they would have throughout the coming year by what they did or ate on the first day of the year. It has, therefore, become important to celebrate first day of the New Year in the company of family and friends.
- In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
- Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
- At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
- The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
- During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
- Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
- What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
- Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Our brain has no pain receptors or pain fibers and the brain it’s self cannot feel? Your brain cannot even feel pain. Although headaches are still not all the way understood, one reason it’s believed you feel headaches is because the skull is surrounded by what’s called meninges or blood vessels which do have pain receptors.
- The comedian actor Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and won Third Prize
- Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be moulded with the hands.
- The plastic pieces on the tips of shoe laces are called aglets.
- People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.
- If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
- Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
- "One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
- The popular Christmas song "Jingle Bells" was composed in 1857 by James Lord Pierpont, and was originally called "One-Horse Open Sleigh". It was actually written for Thanksgiving , a major traditional Fesival in US celebrated on fourth Thursday of November, not for Christmas.
