It so happened that sports writer Arthur Robinson got out of the hospital that morning after promising his doctor that he be back in an hour or two to continue his convalescence.

Very angry at Woodruff, the governor used his personal influence to have the printing contract withdrawn from The Gazette and awarded to the lowest bidder, which, by a strange coincidence, happened to be Pike's Advocate.

This happened to be vice versa, but even so, the answer was a masterpiece.

What happened is that Negroes want to be treated like men.

`` I knew it all along '', confessed Arnold with a grin, `` but I just happened to think how much nicer it would be to drop one way up there ''.

A measure of how hot the stock was, can be found in what happened to it on the market as soon as trading began.

Her bouffant coiffure was fortunately combed on the left which happened to be the direction from which a brisk breeze was blowing.

Four little Japanese waitresses were murdering the English language at the counter -- Yuki Kobayashi happened to be one of them.

She was another human being and happened to be a hustler.

Pan blew on his pipes, and with his rustic melody gave great satisfaction to himself and his faithful follower, Midas, who happened to be present.

The theme is also present in the many other nameless citizens who are separated from loved ones in other towns or from those who happened to be out of town when the gates of Oran were closed.

Secret history, works that document things that are not known to have happened historically but would not have changed history had they happened, is also not to be confused with alternate history.

The use of anagrams and fabricated personal names may be to circumvent restrictions on the use of real names, as happened in the 18th century when Edward Cave wanted to get around restrictions imposed on the reporting of the House of Commons.

In the year 9, Augustus ordered and forced Tiberius to adopt Germanicus, who happened to be Tiberius's nephew, as his son and heir.

Socrates happened to be the citizen presiding over the assembly that day and refused to cooperate ( though to little effect ) and stood against the idea that it was outrageous for the people to be unable to do whatever they wanted.

One historian, Charlotte Behr, thinks that the Historia's account of the arrival of the Germanic invaders in Kent should not be considered to relate what actually happened, but rather relates myths that were current in Kent during Bede's time.

The French had repulsed every attack with heavy slaughter, but many had seen what had happened on the plain and what its consequences to them would be ; their army was routed and they were cut off.

:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.

Neither is it sure how many times it has happened if it turns out to be the case.

The primary practical use of a calendar is to identify days: to be informed about and / or to agree on a future event and to record an event that has happened.

Once track zero was reached, every further attempt to move the head in that direction would cause it to be physically rammed against a solid stop: for example, if the head happened to be on track 18 before this procedure, the head would be actually moved 18 times, and then rammed against the stop another 22 times.

But there is one small episode that a few New York fans who happened to sit in the cheap seats for one World's Series game in 1926 like best to recall.

Also, similar hunting-out happened with the megafauna of New Zealand, Madagascar and many smaller islands around the world ( such as New Caledonia, Cyprus, Crete and Wrangel Island ), and at least in part, in the Americas — probably within a thousand years or so.

The Constitution of 1812 had eliminated all discrimination in the American colonies between Spaniards who were born in Spain and Spanish citizens who happened to be born in the colonies of New Spain.

In light of everything which has happened, it is of course a huge error to have believed for an instant in the New Order.

An agent in the New York office sent an e-mail to FBI headquarters saying, " Whatever has happened to this, someday someone will die, and the public will not understand why we were not more effective and throwing every resource we had at certain ' problems.

Later, while flying to visit his parents in New York City, Meyer happened to be on the same plane with Jason Robards and asked the star to join the cast.

A defenestration ( chronologically the second defenestration of Prague, sometimes called one-and-halfth defenestration ) happened on 24 September 1483, when a violent overthrow of the municipal governments of the Old and New Towns ended with throwing the Old-Town portreeve and the bodies of seven killed aldermen out of the windows of the respective town halls.

Simon worked enthusiastically on the project for many years and described it as " a New York Puerto Rican story based on events that happened in 1959 — events that I remembered.

From such a standpoint, the expansion of slavery into the backcountry decreased the likelihood for social conflict and postponed the declension when money would become the only measure of self-worth, as had happened in New England.

Later ( October 16, 1930 ), Hampton was recording with Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra, and the studio they were working in happened to have a Deagan model 145 vibraharp.

The reason for the oddity of New Zealand having their remembrance on Anzac Day happened in 1921.

The paper Poppies for Armistice that year arrived by ship too late for 11 November 1921, so an RSA branch distributed them at the next commemoration date ( 25 April 1922, which happened to be Anzac Day ) and that date stuck as the new Poppy Day in New Zealand.

At Morey's Pier's theme park in New Jersey there's a haunted attraction called " Ghost Ship " in which a second ship " Ignis Fatuus " who took part in the " Philadelphia Experiment " has come back from beyond the grave and the crew are not happy with what has happened to them.

In contradiction to this, Wiggum reveals in the episode " Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge " that he got his job by chance, as a former police officer had offered his badge to the next passerby who happened to be Wiggum.

" ( p. 31 ) The Egyptians also, says Rice, were " to alter the orientation of a temple when the star on whose position it had originally been set moved its position as a consequence of the Precession, something which seems to have happened several times during the New Kingdom.

The band happened to be playing at Times Square in New York City on May 1, 2010 as part of their Ironbound tour when someone nearby attempted unsuccessfully to blow a car up using fireworks.

New to both the developers and the players, a lot that was planned never happened, and a lot that was unexpected did, and many new game mechanics were integrated to compensate.

Another big oil strike happened in 1923, when Martin Yates, Jr. purchased a well near Artesia and Southeastern New Mexico was said to be " gushing oil !".

New Mexico TV station KRQE first broke the story on Twitter which quickly became a source of updates through the day on the fire, including Cloudcroft Webcam which happened to be directed at Burro Avenue and the affected area.

* Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen, Picture windows: how the suburbs happened, New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000.

His next 3 bouts were also outside New York, but he stayed within the confines of New England, as they happened, once again in Massachusetts, and in New Jersey.

This happened about three or four times a day until Harpo finally left New York Public School 86 for good.