Amazing Facts Between Abraham Lincoln & John F. Kennedy

Strange coincidences & Amazing Facts between Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy


Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

Both of their wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both were shot in the head.

Both were shot with one bullet.

Both were rumored to be killed in a conspiracy. Neither was confirmed to be a conspiracy.

Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theater.
Kennedy was shot in a car made by the Ford Motor Company (a Lincoln no less).

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners.

Both successors were named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

Their first names both contain six letters.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.

Both names comprise fifteen letters.

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Both assassins were assassinated before their trials.

The only complete filming of Kennedy's assasination was shot by Abraham Zapruder.
The only complete account of Lincoln's assasination was written by John Zelfindorfer.

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was with friends in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with his friend Marilyn Monroe.

Lincoln's last child, Tad, had his funeral held on July 16, 1871. Later he was exhumed and moved to a different grave site.
Kennedy's son JFK Jr. was lost at sea on July 16, 1999. Later he was found, brought up, and then re-burried at sea.

Note:
1 Note: It is an urban myth that Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy. There is no record of that.
2 Note: There is no record whether or not Kennedy's secretary warned him.
3 Note: Booth actually fled to a farm and was killed in a tobacco barn. It might be a stretch to call it a warehouse.

But two years after his death, Booth's body was temporarily moved to a warehouse.
Also, after the assassination, the government closed the Ford Theatre and turned it into a warehouse.

Other interesting facts:
Apparently Lincoln had a dream several days before the assassination that he had been killed.He told his wife that he had seen himself in a casket.Also, Lincoln's son Tad had a pet turkey named Jack. Tad asked his father not to kill the turkey for Thanksgiving.Although Harry S Truman started the official tradition, Lincoln was the first to "pardon" a Thanksgiving turkey.

Now what would be real interesting is if Kennedy had a pet named Abe or had pardoned someone by that name. Thus far, I haven't heard of that. Skeptics disagree.

Some skeptics say that you could take any two famous people and find a number of similar-type coincidences between them.

The only problem with that theory is that there really haven't been any listings of such comparisons.

And certainly none has been as extensive as the Lincoln-Kennedy similarities.

Summary:
Facts concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy are amazingly similar. It is uncertain if such coincidences have any meaning, but they certainly are strange.


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Real Names of Famous Musicians

• Alice Cooper (Vincent Damon Furnier)
  Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook)
  Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds)
  Beck (Bek David Campbell)
  Billy Idol (William Michael Albert Broad)
  Billy Ocean (Leslie Charles)
  Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman)
  Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins)
  Bono (Paul Hewson)
  Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
  Cat Stevens (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, later Yusuf Islam)
  Coolio (Artis Ivey, Jr.)
  David Bowie (David Robert Jones)
  Donna Summer (LaDonna Andrea Gaines)
  Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight)
  Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus)
  Eminem (Marshall Mathers III)
  Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold Dorsey)
  Eric Clapton (Eric Clapp)
  Fatboy Slim (Quentin Cook, later Norman Cook)
  Freddie Mercury (Faroukh Bulsara)
  Garry Moore (Thomas Garrison Morfit)
  Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson)
  Ice T (Tracy Morrow)
  Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.)
  Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
  John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.)
  Judy Garland (Frances Gumm)
  Judy Holliday (Judith Tuvim)
  LL Cool J (James Todd Smith)
  Mariah Carey (Maria Nuez)
  Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner))
  MCA (Adam Yauch)
  Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday)
  Moby (Richard Melville Hall)
  Natalie Portman (Natalie Hershlag)
  Nelly (Cornell Haynes Jr.)
  Ozzy Osbourne (John Osbourne)
  Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler)
  Paul McCartney (James Paul McCartney)
  Pink (Alecia Moore)
  Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson)
  Queen Latifah (Dana Owens)
  Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson)
  Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)
  Seal (Sealhenry Samuel)
  Shania Twain (Eileen Regina Edwards, later Eileen Regina Twain)
  Slash (Saul Hudson)
  Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
  Stevie Wonder (Steveland Morris)
  Sting (Gordon Sumner)
  Sugar (Stephanie Beard)
  The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace)
  Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock)
  Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle)
  Ziggy Marley (David Nesta Marley)
  2Pac (Tupac Shakur - born Lesane Crooks)
  50 Cent (Curtis Jackson)

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Amazing Facts & Trivia

• A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
• A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
• About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
• A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
• A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet
• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
• A zebra is white with black stripes.
• Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling. Porpoises and dolphins are mammals. There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins. Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using "echolocation". The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.
• The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air.
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
• How the wind blows. As the sun warms the earth’s surface, the atmosphere warms too. Some parts of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm. Other places receive indirect rays, so the climate is colder. Warm air, which weighs less than cool air, rises. Then cool air moves in and replaces the rising warm air. This movement of air is what makes the wind blow.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
• Why do we might feel warmer wearing a dark-colored jacket than a light-colored one? . Dark colors absorb light energy. Light colors and white reflect light energy. When light shines on your dark jacket, the jacket fabric absorbs light energy. The absorbed light energy causes electrons in the atoms of the jacket to vibrate. This activity releases heat energy, which makes the jacket—and you—warmer. That's why we like to wear more dark colors in winter and more light colors in summer.
• While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.
• At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
• A flute made of bone is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world. It’s a flute carved from a bird’s wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with other flutes at an ancient burial site in China.
• The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known to exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago
• Glue dates back to prehistoric times. Artists once mixed colorings with raw eggs, dried blood, and plant juices to make sticky paints for cave murals. Later, ancient Egyptians and other people learned to make stronger glues by boiling animal bones and hides. Today companies make glues using synthetic substances.
• A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
• A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
• A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.
• The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!!
• The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. !!
• A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
• At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
• You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
• Of all the words in the English language, the word ' set ' has the most definitions!
• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!-
• Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
• More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
• Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
• The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
• No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
• All polar bears are left handed.
• Ants don't sleep.

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Longest Jail Sentence

Did you know that the longest jail sentence passed was in the United States - 10,000 years for a triple murder?
Dudley Wayne Kyzer was jailed for 10,000 years by a court in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1981 for murdering his wife. He was then sentenced to two life terms for murdering his mother-in-law and a college student. In 1994 Oklahoma rapist Darron Bennalford Anderson received a 2,200-year jail sentence. When he appealed and won a new trial, he was convicted again and resentenced to more than 90 additional centuries behind bars - including 4,000 years each for rape and sodomy, 1,750 years for kidnapping, 1,000 years for burglary and robbery, and 500 years for grand larceny.
In July 1997, the state Court of Criminal Appeals held that the grand larceny charge was double jeopardy on the robbery conviction and thus dismissed it. So the court cut Anderson's sentence by 500 years, speeding up his release date to the year 12,744!