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The case of the two Wanda

It’s indeed singular the case of the two Wanda, the story told from the “The Washington Post” in an article entitled “The case of the two Wanda”. Wanda Marie Johnson was living in Adelphi, in the Prince Georges County, and works as assigned to luggage in the Union Station of Washington, DC.

A second Wanda Marie Johnson was living instead in Suitland, in Maryland, a town that it’s also in the Prince Georges County, and she works as a nurse in the District of Colombia General Hospital in Washington.

Both the two Wanda were born June 15th 1953, had been residents of the District of Colombia, and are mothers of two children. Each of them possesses a two doors Ford Granada of 1977, of the same color. Not only that. The first eleven numbers of their cars’ matriculation are identical, only the last three differ. Their driver’s license numbers of Maryland are even the same one since they reported the same birth date. The result was that when the first Wanda has used services of the Howard University Hospital, where the other went also for checkup, troubles began. The case sheets of the two in fact were confused and only after many researches doctors understood that in effects in that hospital there were two Wanda Marie Johnson. Moreover the first Wanda was cited in order not to have paid some furniture that the second one had acquired. And nobody wanted to believe her. At the end the story, everything was cleared up and the truth has been re-establish.

The Tragic End of King Umberto’s “twin”

A singular historical coincidence happened in Italy. On the 28th of July 1900, during a visit to Monza, a city in the Northern part of Italy, king Umberto came to know a restaurateur (owner of a restaurant) who looks like him very much.

Speaking to him, the king discovered that both were born in the same date. Both had married a woman called Margherita and both had a son called Vittorio. Moreover, always for pure chance, the man had opened his restaurant the same day Umberto ascended to the throne. The king was amused from all that coincidences and, leaving his “twin”, he said that he would like to meet him again. But it was not possible.

The next day, cleaning up its gun, the restaurateur left a blow that, bouncing, hurt him mortally. The news arrived obviously to the police and consequently to the king. King Umberto was a lot shaken from the incident and asked, between an engagement and the other, of being lead in the restaurant to present his condolences to the widow. But even that was not possible.

At 10.25 p.m. of July 29th 1900, while he journeyed for the roads of Monza on an opened coach, king Umberto was hit to death from the blow of the gun of the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

The Two-way life savers

On a hot July night of 1930, a policeman called Allan Folby from Texas got in a car crash and damaged a femoral artery in his leg. He would have bled to death had not a passerby intervened and saved his live. The passerby’s name was Alfred Smith. He applied a tourniquet and Folby stopped bleeding. The policeman recovered and went back to his beat. Five years later, he got a call to proceed to a car crash site. He saw a man lying on the ground. The man was bleeding; his femoral artery was apparently damaged. The man’s name was Alfred Smith: he was the very man who saved Folby’s live in the past under the same circumstances.

Have you ever heard of the case of the American Kennedys?