1. In 1979, German magazine - Das Besteran - held a writing contest.
Readers sent in unusual stories, but must be based on a true story.
The winner, Walter Kellner of Munich, eventually won the race had his story published.
He writes about when he flew a Cessna 421 between Sardinia and Sicily. The plane experienced problems at sea, landed on the water, he finally drifting buoys with emergency quite a while before finally rescued.
This story was spotted by an Austrian, also named Walter Kellner, who accused the German Kellner had plagiarized the story. Austrian Kellner said that he flew a Cessna 421 over the same sea, experienced engine trouble, and finally had to land in Sardinia. So basically, it's the same story, but with a different ending.
The magazine check the truth of their story together, and dua2nya was right, almost exactly the same.
2. On July 28, 1900, the King of Italy Umberto I to dinner at a restaurant in the city of Monza. It was the exact same restaurant owners face with the king. The name of the owner of the restaurant was 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 day. So did King Umberto.
3. Volbonne kill Baron Claude de Tarazone Rodemire from France in 1872. 21 years earlier, the Baron's father had been killed as well by someone else who is also named Claude Volbonne
4. On 13 February 1746, a Frenchman, Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed for having killed his father.
Exactly 100 years later, on 13 February 13, a French as well, also named Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed - also for killing his father.
5. On November 26, 1911, three men were hanged at 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. British actor Anthony Hopkins delighted when he got the lead role in a film based on a book called The Girl From Petrovka written by George Feifer. A few days after signing the contract, Hopkins went to London to buy the book. He tried several bookshops, but nothing is selling. While waiting for the train home in Leicester Square, he saw a book lying on a chair waiting. Miraculously, it turns out that the book The Girl From Petrovka. Apparently it does not happen to stop there.
Two years later, while filming in Vienna, Hopkins was visited by George Feifer, the author of the book.
Feifer mentioned that he lost his own book. He lent his books - with some of his own hand-written notes - to his friend, who then lost the book somewhere in London. With astonishment, Hopkins gives Feifer the book he found. 'This is the book?' he asked, 'with notes in the margins?' It's the same book.
7. A British officer, Major Summerford, while fighting in the Flanders region in February 1918 fell from his horse because of lightning and he became paralyzed from the waist down. Summerford retired and moved to Vancouver.
One day in 1924, when he was fishing on the riverbank, a lightning struck the tree under which he was sitting and paralyzing the right side of the body. Two years later Summerford was sufficiently recovered and was able to walk in the park. And he was berjalan2 in the garden in the summer in 1930 when a lightning bolt struck her again, and eventually incapacitate it permanently. He died two years later. But the lightning seems to have not been satisfied and still after him. Four years later, during a storm, lightning struck the cemetery and destroyed a tombstone. Who's buried under a gravestone? Major Summerford
Readers sent in unusual stories, but must be based on a true story.
The winner, Walter Kellner of Munich, eventually won the race had his story published.
He writes about when he flew a Cessna 421 between Sardinia and Sicily. The plane experienced problems at sea, landed on the water, he finally drifting buoys with emergency quite a while before finally rescued.
This story was spotted by an Austrian, also named Walter Kellner, who accused the German Kellner had plagiarized the story. Austrian Kellner said that he flew a Cessna 421 over the same sea, experienced engine trouble, and finally had to land in Sardinia. So basically, it's the same story, but with a different ending.
The magazine check the truth of their story together, and dua2nya was right, almost exactly the same.
2. On July 28, 1900, the King of Italy Umberto I to dinner at a restaurant in the city of Monza. It was the exact same restaurant owners face with the king. The name of the owner of the restaurant was 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 day. So did King Umberto.
3. Volbonne kill Baron Claude de Tarazone Rodemire from France in 1872. 21 years earlier, the Baron's father had been killed as well by someone else who is also named Claude Volbonne
4. On 13 February 1746, a Frenchman, Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed for having killed his father.
Exactly 100 years later, on 13 February 13, a French as well, also named Jean Marie Dubarry, was executed - also for killing his father.
5. On November 26, 1911, three men were hanged at 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. British actor Anthony Hopkins delighted when he got the lead role in a film based on a book called The Girl From Petrovka written by George Feifer. A few days after signing the contract, Hopkins went to London to buy the book. He tried several bookshops, but nothing is selling. While waiting for the train home in Leicester Square, he saw a book lying on a chair waiting. Miraculously, it turns out that the book The Girl From Petrovka. Apparently it does not happen to stop there.
Two years later, while filming in Vienna, Hopkins was visited by George Feifer, the author of the book.
Feifer mentioned that he lost his own book. He lent his books - with some of his own hand-written notes - to his friend, who then lost the book somewhere in London. With astonishment, Hopkins gives Feifer the book he found. 'This is the book?' he asked, 'with notes in the margins?' It's the same book.
7. A British officer, Major Summerford, while fighting in the Flanders region in February 1918 fell from his horse because of lightning and he became paralyzed from the waist down. Summerford retired and moved to Vancouver.
One day in 1924, when he was fishing on the riverbank, a lightning struck the tree under which he was sitting and paralyzing the right side of the body. Two years later Summerford was sufficiently recovered and was able to walk in the park. And he was berjalan2 in the garden in the summer in 1930 when a lightning bolt struck her again, and eventually incapacitate it permanently. He died two years later. But the lightning seems to have not been satisfied and still after him. Four years later, during a storm, lightning struck the cemetery and destroyed a tombstone. Who's buried under a gravestone? Major Summerford
