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  • Coincidence in Jersey City April 22, 2012

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Coincidence in Jersey City

    Following on from a recent post Beachcombing has had several extraordinary emails about coincidences among our governing classes. He thought, meanwhile, that today he would premiere another of his favourite coincidence stories: the good works of Edwin Booth (obit 1893). In 1909 an American citizen wrote the following letter to The Century Magazine with an […]

    Lincoln’s Prophetic Dream June 23, 2011

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Lincoln's Prophetic Dream

    Beachcombing has been having some troubling dreams of trails of gold sovereigns in the snow and a Babylonian Mother Goddess called Lindsey. This got him thinking of famous historical dreams and he settled, for today’s post, on a classic – Lincoln’s dream of his own death. Now, as all good Americans know, 14 April 1865 […]