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1). Tendulkar and Kohli share the same pattern of scoresThe coincidence between the God of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, and the rising star, Virat Kohli, is hard to believe. In the year 1999, Sachin had completed 1000 runs against Australia in the 19th over in the fifth test match in Melbourne.15 years later, Virat Kohli too completed 1000 runs against Australia in Melbourne in the fifth test match and that too in the 19th over. They both were 26 years old when they achieved this feat and they both were playing with an MRF bat.2). Movies on each other's name. Planned or coincidence?In 2013, actor Rajkumar Rao appeared in a movie called 'Shahid' and few days later there was a film with Shahid Kapoor in it and it was named ' R... Rajkumar'.3). The host wins the next year's T-20T-20 is a strange coincidence of the winners. Just follow this.A) 2009Host- EnglandWinner-PakistanB) 2010Host- West IndiesWinner EnglandC) 2012Host- Sri LankaWinner- West IndiesD) 2014Host- BangladeshWinner- Sri Lanka.4). Johnny Bravo gave hints about 9/11 before it really happenedA lot of people love Johnny Bravo cartoons but few noticed something very strange which happened in an episode of April 2001. There was a poster with two burning buildings and 'Coming Soon' written over it. Five months later, 9/11 happened.5). The strange connection between Sachin Tendulkar, Michael Clarke and Alastair CookTill date, Tendulkar has scored 15,921 runs in 200 test matches which had 51 centuries. If you add up the runs by Michael Clarke and Alastair Cook, it will be the same as that of Tendulkar.6). The bullet that killed a man 20 years after it was shotA man named Henry Ziegland from Texas left his girlfriend. The upset girlfriend tried to commit suicide. Her brother decided to avenge her death, shooting Ziegland, then himself. Little did he realise the bullet had only skimmed Henry, lodging itself in a tree. All was well until 20 years later when Henry decided to cut the said tree down, causing the bullet to fly into his head and kill him.7). Great coincidence of MS DhoniDhoni's first Test and ODI hundred both came in his 5th match, were both scores of 148 and both were scored against Pakistan. Cool coincidence indeed for Captain Cool.8). And this one is the greatest ever coincidence in cricketOn Friday, Afghanistan scored 333 for five wickets and bowled out Zimbabwe for 179 to win by a record margin between the two countries of 154 runs.On Sunday, exactly the opposite took place, as this time Zimbabwe scored 333 for five wickets and then bowled out Afghanistan for the exact same total of 179, to equal that record victory margin.Pratyaksh Shivhare

I was a juror on a murder trial. An older, disabled gentleman, Bill, was charged with murdering a 20-year-old male, Derrick, twice his size and 1/3 his age.It was in Baltimore. Bill was a quiet tiny gentleman. He was disabled from a bus accident that left him with a small settlement, a disability check from the government, and a metal plate in his head.The gentleman that was killed was young, and judging from the photographs entered into evidence, very powerful. He was shot once, through the heart, with a .38 caliber bullet. He died as he was falling to the ground.On the day of the killing, the accused had gone to cash his disability check. “Check day” was well-known in Baltimore at the time. All, or most government checks physically arrived on the same day each month. On this day, checks are cashed, rents paid, groceries purchased, needs met. Depending on the needs that are met, it can get pretty energetic on check day.Maisee and Derrick encountered Bill at the check cashing center. Maisee knew he would be there because her mom did some cooking and cleaning for Bill, and he always paid her mom right after check day. Maisee and Derrick demanded money from Bill. He refused and started walking home. They followed him to the street, pushed him down, and kicked him. He pulled a revolver from his pocket, fired it into the air, and got away running towards his apartment.Derrick and Maisee followed him, with Derrick picking up a piece of steel rebar, and Maisee throwing rocks. Bill ran to his house. He realized he couldn’t unlock the door and get inside before they caught him, and firm in the knowledge that any strong blow to the metal plate in his head could kill him, he pulled the revolver from his pocket, shot one time, and a man was dead.The police and ambulance were called. Derrick was taken to a hospital to be pronounced dead. Bill was found and arrested in his bedroom, hiding under his bed. He had hidden the pistol in the back of his closet. It was a five shot revolver. It had three empty chambers, and two expended shells. He literally had no more bullets.Baltimore city was as violent then as now, and gun crime was prosecuted to the maximum. Bill was charged with 2nd degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, assault, discharging a firearm in the city limits, everything. Baltimore was going to prosecute its way out of crime.Judge M. was presiding. She was a no-nonsense black lady in charge of a case where an old black man was accused of killing a young black man. The girlfriend Maisee, was also black. Race enters into this because of her reaction.Maisee told the police that she and Derrick had confronted Bill because he had beaten her mom. The defense attorney called Maisee’s mom as witness, and asked a few about Bill. No, he had always been kind, and had never hit her.Of course, the case for the defense was self-defense.When the defense attorney was asking Maisee about the events of the day, it was clear that he wanted to establish the fact that Bill had run from the confrontation several times, that it was physical, and it was escalating. Every time she began her answer, she prefaced it with a variation of “he beat my mother”.“How did you meet Bill?”He’s the man that beat my mother.That was the lead-in to every answer she gave. The defense attorney objected, because the police had asked, and her mother had testified that he was only paying her to help him around the house. Judge M. told the jury to ignore that remark, and instructed her twice to answer only the questions as they had been asked, without any mention of the fictionalized assault.She did it again, was interrupted by the judge, and the jury was sent from the court so she could better instruct Maisee.When we came back to court, Maisee was still in the witness box, and the highly professional defense attorney asked her about the chase through the street, where Maisee and Derrick were following him, she with rocks, Derrick with a piece of steel… Maisee answered to the effect that “He had been beating on my..Judge M: “Miss xxxxx (Maisee) do not make such a reference again. Now please just answer the question as we discussed.Maisee: ”Well if you would stop interrupting me…”THAT’S ENOUGH!“Young lady, if you think I sweated and worked myself nearly to death to get on the Baltimore Police Department as one of the first black female officers, worked every weekend, night, and holiday shift the good Lord sent my way to pay for my night school law classes, studying law while raising two kids so I could become one of the first black female lawyers in Baltimore, and the first female black judge in the city just so some gum-popping finger-snapping Miss Thang can tell me how to conduct my courtroom, then here is your another think coming.”“The next two words out of your mouth will be ‘I apologize’. You will apologize to this court, and you will then apologize to the jury for wasting their time. Then, every question you are asked will be answered as it is asked. You will show nothing but a respectful voice and tone in your answers to me, or any member of my court, and before I allow you to respond to me, I want to make one thing absolutely and perfectly clear to you: I will put you in jail for contempt of court. And that stands for you, and anyone else in this courtroom who wants to test my patience today. Now, what do you have to say?”“I apologize. To you, and the jury.”“Excellent. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I regret you had to witness that, but we judges are only human, and my understanding and acceptance of some habits is growing thin over the years.”We, the jury went back to the jury room later, and all promised not to make Judge M. angry no matter what.I shared this story later with a couple of lawyer friends that I knew practiced in city court, and they had the same long, slow whistle response that I did on that day, and mentioned that they had heard of that episode before.Sorry for the long prelude, but it was a heck of a thing to witness, and I remember the hush that fell on that courtroom was as if all the oxygen had left. Everyone was remembering an important appointment anywhere else, but afraid to broach the subject. That lady was impressive.If you are interested, we found the old fellow innocent of everything except discharging a handgun inside city limits, which he plainly admitted to doing.I checked out the defense attorney, and he is still practicing: A. Dwight Pettit was a heck of a defense attorney then, and most certainly got better. That guy was as smooth as wet silk, and smarter than anyone has a legitimate right to be.Edit notes. I updated the story to include a warning shot that the old fellow fired on the street.I was a bit overwhelmed by the number of readers and comments. When I posted my story, I was concentrating on the actions of the judge. It wasn't until I saw the comments about the guilty verdict for discharging a weapon in the city limits that I began searching my memory. This was twenty five years ago, and I had to think for a bit. I remembered being concerned that he only had two bullets. It was remembering that fact that brought the warning shot to mind. It was for the warning shot, fired into the air/street that he was found guilty. In retrospect, I wish I had worked harder for an innocent verdict on that as well.As I reflect on that week-long trial, I remember being pleased and proud of how seriously the jury took our duty. It stunk, because a young man lost his life, a family lost a son, and a frail, old man feared for his life and took another.Thanks for the edit suggestions. I'm typing on a kindle, and mistakes carry forward.

The federal soldier had the most abundant food allowance of any fighting man in the world at the time, and shortages were commonly short-lived. Most of the food ration was grown in the North and shipped to the theater of operations by using a diverse network of railways and roads, and by taking advantage of an almost unchallenged ability to ship supplies by water.The staple ration of the federal army was a square cracker, 3 1/8 by 2 7/8 inches, with small holes in its top, known as hardtack. Hardtack provided a good-quality ration when combined with other foods, but it took some time for the soldiers to learn to appreciate its value. Nine to ten crackers comprised a daily ration weighing only about one pound. Referred to as both army bread and biscuit, it was a very dry, incredibly hard product without leavening, and bore little resemblance to either. The army was not being purposely cruel to its soldiers by giving them hardtack to eat. Hardtack was not a new product. It was used as ship's bread for centuries. The dryness and hardness were functional characteristics. It was dry when packaged to keep the cracker from spoiling, and hard so it could be carried in the soldier's haversack without crumbling. Fresh bread was almost unheard of on campaign in the field. However, several soldiers attest to its presence in established camps.A soldier wrote home to his girlfriend—with some sarcasm—about the unrelenting presence of hardtack in his diet, "Nett, I have become a model cook since entering the Army, and I think you will agree with me when I tell you how many kinds of dishes I can make out of hardtack, 1st make pancakes out of them, 2nd hoecake, 3rd flour gravy, 4th sauce, 5th coffee, 6th, fry them." An officer wrote home sarcastically, "We are living very high nowadays, have pork, hardtack and coffee for breakfast and of course for dinner coffee, hardtack, and pork for a change. Then for supper we have a little coffee, pork, and fried hardtack. . . . I am in danger of getting the gout on account of so high living."Southern soldiers, serving in the midst of a largely agricultural area, began the war with sufficient foodstuffs. However, living off the land and relying on seasonal harvests led alternately to a superabundance of food or almost none. The Confederacy was hampered in its effort to ship foodstuffs by a lack of adequate railway facilities, by an inability to maintain control of the major water arteries within its own territory, and by the increasingly successful interdiction efforts of federal forces.The supply-starved Confederates appreciated captured federal hardtack in place of the cornbread that was the staple of their daily diet. At times the entire Southern army seemed to run on nothing but cornbread and captured hardtack. The cornbread was usually coarse, dry, and rather tasteless. Baked loaves of cornbread were sometimes available to the troops, but most often dry, ground meal was issued from which the Confederate soldier needed to make his own bread. Without an oven he needed to resort to his ingenuity. A thick corn disk, called hoecake or ashcake, could be made by mixing cornmeal with water and salt into a thick paste in an oilcloth and baking the product in a frying pan or on a hot, flat stone. Such cakes could withstand moderate abuse in a haversack and, like hardtack, were a sight common at mealtime and during breaks along the line of march. Cornmeal could be mixed with hot water to form a mush, and was sometimes eaten with honey, molasses, or milk if they were available. Some soldiers improvised a full dinner stew called Confederate cush, or kush, of cornmeal mush, cooked meat, garlic, and bacon grease, ironically similar to a common preparation of plantation slaves. Cornmeal was also added to soups as a thickener.Standard rations were issued in bulk by the company in the federal army. The company cooks were generally appointed, and arrangements were made for company cooking with company cooking utensils. In his basic kit each Civil War soldier had a tin cup and plate as well as a spoon, knife, and fork which he kept in his haversack. Southern men initially formed messes, each consisting of about ten men, many employing a “Negro” man as a cook. These cooks quickly disappeared from the line of march, and rarely were any soldiers other than officers so served.Initially the government in Richmond ignored the need for the wide-scale provision of camp equipment, and little beyond firearms, bayonets, and canteens was issued. On the other hand, the federal authorities encumbered their troops with several standard items of camp equipment, including kettles, mess pans, and coffeepots. A set of metal crutches with a sturdy crossbar served to hang the pots over the fire. The kettles were made of tinned sheet iron in sizes that allowed them to be nested within each other for ease of transportation. Large iron mess pans were used to serve the food. The company mess kettles were provided to make coffee, soups, and stews, but in typical soldierly fashion, they proved excellent for washing clothes. The mess pans were made to fry pork and bacon, yet they also served as washbasins. Such double duty was less than polite society would have tolerated, but for the soldiers any other course was considered impractical.The concept of company cooking quickly disappeared under all but the most favorable of circumstances. In this manner both Johnny Reb and Billy Yank found themselves in surprisingly similar situations. Each soldier was obliged to use only the limited array of cookware that he could carry. A coffee boiler of some sort was considered a necessity, and any utensil that could serve as a frying pan became indispensable. Small groups of men would pool their money to purchase a coffee boiler or a real frying pan from the sutler, and each would take turns carrying it on the march. The person so designated often was entitled to the utensil's first use when camp was made. If one of the owners was wounded, killed, or otherwise removed from the companionship of his fellow investors, his share could be sold to an outsider.The government rations distributed to the troops varied slightly with the season and the availability of local supply. Nonetheless, a complete list of all the possibilities is short. These included hardtack, coffee, sugar, soft bread, flour, rice, cornmeal, dried peas, dried beans, desiccated vegetables or dried fruits, fresh or dried potatoes (called chips), salt pork, bacon or ham, pickled beef (called salt horse), fresh meat, and occasionally onions, molasses, salt, pepper, and vinegar. The officers' mess and hospitals seemed to have had a significant variety of canned items, but they were seldom available to the troops unless they were purchased from the sutlers. By 1861 the list of common canned items had expanded to include several types of meat, peas, sardines, peaches, and other fruits; but the most common canned item encountered in the field was condensed milk, much of which was purchased by contract from Gail Borden.There were two standard rations in the federal army. One was the camp ration, and the other was the campaign or marching ration. The camp ration tended to be more diverse, and for one soldier in the federal army consisted of meat (1 ¼ lbs. of salted or fresh beef, or ¾ lb. of pork or bacon); and bread (1 lb., 6 oz. of soft bread or flour, or 1 lb. of hardtack, or 1 ¼ lbs. of cornmeal). He also received approximately 1 ½ ounces of dried vegetables, rice, dried potatoes, peas, or beans. Fresh potatoes were to be had, but fresh vegetables were rare and allotted in only very small quantities. Salt and pepper were allowed in minuscule quantities. About ½ ounce of vinegar was provided for each man daily to help prevent scurvy. About the same amount of molasses was allowed when available. The marching ration consisted of 1 lb., or 8 crackers, of hard bread; ¾ lb. of salt pork, or 1 ¼ lbs. of fresh meat; sugar, coffee, and salt. The beans, rice, and so on, were not issued to the soldier when on the march, as he could not carry or cook them.Confederates were almost always on the edge of starvation once the first days of the war were past. A federal soldier noted that his opponents were "very seldom well supplied, [but] they often bravely fought when even weak with hunger." They were known to have depended on cowpeas, or field peas, to round out their sparse rations. General Lee considered these field legumes one of the Confederacy's best friends. The men also grubbed for wild onions, scallions, dandelions, and groundnuts. Swamp cabbage could be made palatable by having the unpleasant flavor boiled out of it. The closest thing to a sutler's wagon seen by most Confederate troops was a cider cart or fruit wagon pushed by a slave or a roadside display of pies and cakes set up by a civilian.With only a rudimentary understanding of balanced nutrition, it is a wonder that any soldier survived the war on such a diet. However, the standard ration provided a daily average of over 3,000 calories, heavy in carbohydrates and fats, but providing few vitamins or complete proteins. The vitamin deficiencies and the lack of protein could have been devastating. An unrelieved diet of cornmeal and salt pork, while sufficient in calories, would ultimately produce such diseases as scurvy and pellagra. Fresh meats will provide protein but cannot afford sufficient protein to make up the deficit alone. Both beans and cornmeal are high protein sources but are individually incomplete in amino acids; yet, in combination they are complementary and provide all the essentials needed to sustain health. Rice and peas are another complementary pair with similar characteristics. In offering these pairs among a small variety of foodstuffs, the government unwittingly supplied a nearly complete diet to its soldiers, yet the unresolved question of a lack of essential vitamins had serious health consequences that cost many lives.The soldier added both quantity and variety to his diet in many ways. Gifts of food from home were always welcome. These included hams, smoked meats and cheeses, pickles, onions, potatoes, chocolate, condensed milk, sugar, salt butter, coffee, tea, cakes, cookies, applesauce, and preserves. Moreover, he could always buy food from farms that he passed or from sutlers. Both sides resorted to foraging for foodstuffs, and sent out groups of men, usually cavalry, to strip the countryside of provisions—a standard practice of armies since ancient times. Many farms were visited repeatedly and stripped bare by friend and foe alike.Foragers brought in foodstuffs common to the civilian farm diet. Foragers could wipe a Southern farmstead clean in a few minutes without the least pity. This usually included ham, bacon, cornmeal, roasting ears of corn, and sweet potatoes. Livestock, in the form of cattle, pigs, hogs, sheep, chickens, geese, and turkeys, was sometimes driven into camp to be slaughtered. The meat was often thin and tough, especially if taken from a Southern farm late in the war; but the soldiers usually found it possible to prepare it for consumption without extensive processing. Roasting ears were a particular favorite as they could be thrown into the fire ash with the shucks on, cooked, and retrieved with little ceremony; but recruits quickly found that green ears of corn, consumed without proper preparation, brought on stomach and lower bowel ailments that could have been avoided by a judicious roasting.Southern foragers understood the "terrible necessity" of depriving friendly families of most of their stock of food in order to feed the army, and some voluntarily cut cord wood, helped with the harvest, repaired farm machinery, and toiled at any other farm work in repayment for the willing donation of food. A favorite ploy of Southern foragers was to linger about the house of an unsuspecting farm family until they were at supper, "and then modestly approach and knock at the door." This procedure almost always resulted in an invitation to dinner as "honored guests."The troops often resorted to the unauthorized stealing and killing of livestock. "Bear hunting" seems to have been a popular pastime for foragers in both armies. Pigs, which generally were allowed to roam the scrub and woodlots of most farms, seem to have been a favorite target of the "bear" hunters. One forager, caught with a roasting pig on the spit by the enraged farmer who owned it, excused his acquisition of the meat by explaining that the pig had violated the grain allotted to the horses of his artillery battery. The horses, swore the soldier, had sensed the pig's intrusion, kicked out, and killed the pig instantly. To mollify him, the farmer was invited to partake of the meat, but he came to suspect the soldier's sincerity "after his teeth had come down hard on a pistol bullet, and continued to doubt, though assured that it was the head of a horse-shoe nail." By sending a hind-quarter to the company officers, and by similarly placating the sergeants, the soldiers "alloyed any murmurs over violated discipline."See: Daily Life in Civil War America, 2nd Edition: Dorothy Denneen Volo, James M. Volo: 9780313366031: Amazon.com: Books