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Fri, 27 Sep 02 00:46:57 -2300
Hiya Folks...
Time for some current affairs and coincidences...sent in by Kathleen...
Wishes & Dreams...
- ANDREA
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Sept 11, 2002 - Albany N.Y.
On the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept 11, commonly
referred to as 9/11, the evening numbers drawn in the New York Lottery
were 9-1-1.
"The numbers were picked in the standard random fashion, using all the
same protocols," Carolyn Hapeman, a lottery spokeswoman, said. "It's
just the way the numbers came up."
Lottery officials will not know until today how many people played those
numbers or the total payout.
For the evening numbers game, the New York Lottery selects from balls
numbered zero to nine circulating in a machine at the lottery office.
Three levers are pressed and three balls are randomly brought up into
tubes and then displayed.
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This is not the first time such an odd coincidence has occurred.
News and random chance intersected again on 12 November 2001, the day
American Airlines Flight 587, bound for the Dominican Republic from New
York City, crashed in Queens shortly after take-off.
That day was the very first time the New Jersey Lottery held two
drawings on one day and both of the winning three-number lottery
combinations included the numbers 5, 8, and 7.
Check the following link from the Urban Legends Reference Web site:
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/lottery.htm
Is this really about the power of the collective psyche?
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