Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Brain Frying Coincidences

The the man that killed the 16th president John Wilkes Booth, apparently had a very famous brother. His brother was Edwin Booth. He was more loved than any other actor in history and more sought after by women than any other man.
Edwin Booth

He should be considered the greatest actor of all time, but his evil brother seemed to out shine him by killing the president who held our nation together with a tall hat and a manly beard.
Any way Edwin Booth was at a train station in New Jersey and saved a young boy from being hit by a train. Edwin did not know this boy, he simply was being an awesome man.
A few days later he received a letter from Adam Badeau, an officer under Ulysses S.Grant. Apparently the boy he saved was Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of President Abraham Lincoln.
So this is Robert Todd Lincoln
This would be the only Booth family involvement with the president, if his brother hadn't gone and assassinated the president Abraham Lincoln in a theater. The assassination occurred only a few months later.
The British Soldier
So this is a story widely told by a soldier and by the man he spared. In World War One a British soldier named Private Henry Tardy was literally owning the war zone. So when he came across a wounded German soldier he decided to spare his life. As Tandey later told sources, during the final moments of that battle, as the German troops were in retreat, a wounded German soldier entered Tandey’s line of fire. "I took aim but couldn’t shoot a wounded man," Tandey remembered, "so I let him go." The German soldier nodded in thanks, and disappeared. .

In 1918, a photograph that appeared in London newspapers of Tandey carrying a wounded soldier at Ypres in 1914 was later portrayed on canvas in a painting by the Italian artist Fortunino Matania glorifying the Allied war effort. As the story goes, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled to Germany in 1938 to engage Hitler in a last-ditch effort to avoid another war in Europe, he was taken by the führer to his new country retreat in Bavaria. There, Hitler showed Chamberlain his copy of the Matania painting, commenting, "That’s the man who nearly shot me."
That soldier spared Hitler!

He spared the epitome of evil.Hitler tells this same story in order to say that god was on his side and make people believe he had a celestial purpose, but we all know he was a bad man.Weird anyway.

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