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Casey-James May missed out on a 48 | Casey-James May missed out on a 48 | ||
million-to-one record by four minutes. | million-to-one record by four minutes. | ||
His father Sean, grandather Dered and great- | His father Sean, grandather Dered and great- | ||
grandfather Ålistar were all born on the | grandfather Ålistar were all born on the | ||
same date - March 2. But Casey-James | same date - March 2. But Casey-James | ||
was delivered at 12.04 am on March 3....</blockquote | was delivered at 12.04 am on March 3....</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>Metro | <blockquote>Metro | ||
Revision as of 19:03, 29 June 2005
Frank Duckworth, editor of the Royal Statistical Society's newsletter - RSS NEWS has given us permission to include items from their forsooth column which they extract them from media sources. Of course we would be happy to have readers add items they feel are worthy of a forsooth!
From the May 2005 RSS News:
He tried his best--but in the end newborn
Casey-James May missed out on a 48 million-to-one record by four minutes. His father Sean, grandather Dered and great- grandfather Ålistar were all born on the same date - March 2. But Casey-James
was delivered at 12.04 am on March 3....
Metro 10 March 2005
In the US, those in the poorest households have nearly four times the risk of death of those in the richest.
Your World report
May 2004