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Coast Guard helicopter rescuing people from a flood

10 Lucky Celebrities Who Escaped Disaster

Source: Smithsonian

You may be familiar with each of the 10 historic tragedies in this list, but chances are you don’t know that for each one, there’s a celebrity or public figure who narrowly avoided being part of it.

This entry was posted in A Matter of Life or Death and tagged Culture & Society, Historic Figures, History, People on July 31, 2014 by admin.

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