unexpected meeting

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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At Nottingham University Geography Department at the close of the Summer term 1953, we were discussing plans for the holiday. A friend and I were cycling through northern France and Merick Poznansky ( recently retired Professor of Archaeology University Los Angeles) announced that he was on a study course at the Sorbonne. We cycled through France to Vezeley on the Massif Central and camped in the garden of a friend of our school french master; an amateur archaeologist. He took us to a site investigating a Mousterian settlement and we were invited to see a display approached by a tunnel. Leading the crawl out of the tunnel I was confronted by someone crawling in and came nose to nose with Merrick Poznansky. Speaking no French he was very pleased to see us as he was very lonely.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:25:31 +0000Coincidence ID:3993