Quite by chance, I had myself just played the part of a demon king in a Christmas play at my primary school.

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Quite by chance, Berryman's cartoon was noticed by a Russian Jewish immigrant to America named Morris Michtom, who by day sold candy in his store in Brooklyn, while by night making stuffed animals with his wife Rose.

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Dr Peter Bowen-Simpkins, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said it was quite possible that the sex of a baby was decided by factors other than pure chance.

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But when, if you do this trick in a laboratory, you give the electrons the chance to bypass a section of rock by way of a metal wire, quite large currents will flow.

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