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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
 
In 1974 a competition was run in The Sunday Times, in which readers were invited to send in the most striking...
In 1974 a competition was run in The Sunday Times, in which readers were invited to send in the most striking coincidence they knew of.

The winning entry pointed out that in Edgar Allan Poe's (1809-1849) novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" (1838), four men are cast adrift on their capsized ship and draw lots to decide which of them should be eaten. The loser was the sailor who had proposed the idea: the character's name was Richard Parker.

In 1884, yacht "Mignonette" sank, with four men cast adrift in a lifeboat  and discuss drawing lots to decide which of them should be eaten. One Richard Parker ended up being eaten.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mignonette_(yacht)

Also see
https://plus.google.com/112065430692128821190/posts/BKccgZueoD2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mignonette_(yacht)

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