The first democratically elected female Prime Minister was Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, who took over the leadership of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party when her husband was assassinated in 1959. Bandaranaike successfully led her party to victory in three elections, in 1960, 1970 and 1994, howe...
these coincidences have irrational explanations. What, for example, should be made of the following similarities (not all of them numerological) between U.S. PresidentsAbraham LincolnandJohn F. Kennedy, taken from a far more extensive list in Martin Gardner’sThe Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix(...