Time stood still

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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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The subject of co-incidence has long fascinated me, since my mother's death in fact 30.6.1973. Soon after her death, on our way home, my father asked me if I had noticed the time of her death, I told him it had been at midday, but when I checked my watch, which was a Tissot ,and up until then had always worked perfectly, I noticed it too had stopped at her time of death, midday! This seemed strange at the time, but then things became even more eerie when on entering our home, dad and I noticed the clock in our living room had stopped inexplicably at the same time too!
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Date submitted:Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:01:01 +0000Coincidence ID:10918