Chance, magic, or mystery?(News)

From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: January 17, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: By DAVID WILLIAMSON Western Mail

Is a strange force at work when a Canadian farmer called MacDonald is randomly given a postcode containing the letter sequence E I E I O? Martin Plimmer and Brian King have asked this question while collecting some of the world's most bewildering coincidences.

The pair, who met while studying journalism in Cardiff in 1971, have authored a bestselling book, Beyond Coincidence, which examines a phenomenon with the capacit...

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