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Very angry at Woodruff, the governor used his personal influence to have the printing contract withdrawn from The Gazette and awarded to the lowest bidder, which, by a strange coincidence, happened to be Pike's Advocate.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

The allocation was expedited by two Plymouth natives, Michael E. Comerford, the movie-theater owner, who happened to be the regional representative of the recently created National Recovery Administration, and Frank C. Walker, Comerford's nephew, a Roosevelt ally and the NRA's executive secretary.

During his last years, in a bid to retain power, Empress Taitu intrigued against his choice, intending to substitute either her step-daughter Leult Zewditu or her daughter's husband Ras Gugsa Welle ( who happened to be Taitu's nephew ) for Lij Iyasu.

Before this happened, his brother Olof died, and a new co-ruler had to be appointed, but the Swedes are said to have refused to accept his rowdy nephew Styrbjörn the Strong as his co-ruler.

As Ajatasatru happened to be his nephew his life was spared.

This happened in Beijing from 1928 onwards — being taught by Chen Fake and his nephew.

" There were many other puppet characters such as Romberg Rabbit, Macintosh Mouse, Chris Goose ( Garfield's nephew who was born on Christmas, hence " Christmas Goose ") and a sleepy bloodhound called Beauregard Burnside III ( whose name happened to be a mix of two American Civil War generals ).

Porter wakes up to find his nephew missing ; a neighbor tells him what happened.

In addition to his political cartoons he also published the Oom Kaspaas series, wherein Uncle Kaspaas boasts about his colorful past to his " nephew " Nefie-always to be reminded by some unfortunate event of what had really happened.

( It was in the aftermaths of Xiahou's rebellion that the first serious instance of Emperor Wu's refusal to punish a family member happened, as his nephew Xiao Yuanzao ( 蕭淵藻 ) the Marquess of Xichang, angry that when he rendezvoused with Deng Yuanqi that Deng took the best horses, assassinated Deng and falsely accused Deng of treason.

Valens senior would have revolted in Illyria against an earlier emperor, and would have been killed by his own soldiers after few days, as happened to his nephew.

Richardson plays the Queen with the mannerisms of a spoiled schoolgirl who just happened to possess the kind of casual, autocratic power that could have someone's nose cut off if it is prettier than hers-a power which she revels in.

However, once Stephen Richardson and his murderous alter-ego were finally dead and buried, the writers struggled to keep the momentum as several high-profile characters departed and new storylines seemed lame compared to what had happened before.

He did mention in his column the fact that he had received many letters about this and he himself did not understand the networks and the independent local stations' not doing this -- but nothing happened.

But if the Trial did not expose the special Nazi mania so deadly to Jews as well as to anyone upon whom it happened to light, neither did it warn very effectively against the ordinary anti-Semitism of which the Nazis made such effective use in Germany and wherever else they could find it.

Jubal deduced what had happened but did not know with whom -- and didn't want to inquire.

Regardless of whatever happened Accrington did not remain under monastic control for long before reverting back to the de Lacys.

As it happened, the Ottomans did not intervene and the Serbian army's advance was stopped after the Battle of Slivnitsa.

However, when it happened, he did not attempt to undermine it.

In lay terms, there is a very large — perhaps infinite — number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but did not, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes.

Changes could and did occur in the language, but only by acquiring widespread popular support ; there was no central authority making arbitrary changes, as happened with Volapük and some other languages.

' " For Democratic Socialism " is vaporised, just like Winston Smith did it at the Ministry of Truth, and that ’ s very much what happened at the beginning of the McCarthy era and just continued, Orwell being selectively quoted.

They dispatched soldiers and what happened next could only be described as a “ bloodbath .” At least nine hundred Indians were killed and it did not matter whether they were women, children or men.

He had intended it to be an unedited record of everything he did as it happened, but he edited the book five times before publication.

The collapse of the Western Roman Empire did not lead to the same wholesale destruction of Western classical society as happened in areas like Roman Britain, Gaul and Germania Inferior during the Dark Ages, although the institutions, infrastructure and economy did suffer considerable degradation.

" At this time, one of those disciples happened to be the current English ambassador, though his initiation into Jahangir's inner circle of disciples was devoid of religious significance for Roe, as he did not understand the full extent of what he was doing: Jahangir hung " a picture of him self set in gold hanging at a wire gold chain ” round Roe's neck.

In 1867, three years before it happened, for example, Le Pelletier did so to anticipate either the triumph or the defeat of Napoleon III in a war that, in the event, begged to be identified as the Franco-Prussian war, while admitting that he could not specify either which or when.

What has happened to Scott's reputation, Crane argues, derives from the way the world has changed since the heroic myth was formed: " It is not that we see him differently from the way they contemporaries did, but that we see him the same, and instinctively do not like it.

Fire officials on the scene were not monitoring broadcast news reports and did not immediately understand what had happened when the first ( South ) tower did collapse.

Haight Ashbury was a ghetto of bohemians who wanted to do anything — and we did but I don't think it has happened since.

On 5 November, the European printed an article by Powell in which he said he did not expect the European Communities Act 1972 to be amended or repealed but added, " Still, something has happened.

As it happened, the Battle of Midway, the critical naval battle considered to be the turning point of the war in the Pacific, indeed did occur six months after Pearl Harbor ( Midway ended on June 7, exactly 6 months later ).

Governmental response to this shortage was hampered by the fact that officials did not clearly understand what had happened.

Prior to 2005, after the top two cars were set, the top 14 cars in the qualifying races advanced to the field, and then between six ( 1998 – 2003 ), eight ( 1995 – 97, 2004 ), or ten ( until 1994 ) fastest cars which did not advance from the qualifying race were added, and, since 1976, between one and seven cars were added by previous year's points performance and or championship, except for 1985, when no such car was eligible for a provisional starting spot, the only time that happened in the Daytona 500 from when the provisional was added in 1976 through 2004.