©2010 Tim Evans
Date: Oct. 15, 2010
Location: Waukesha Gun Club
serendipity |ˌserənˈdipitē| noun the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way : a fortunate stroke of serendipity | a series of small serendipities. DERIVATIVES serendipitous |-ˈdipitəs| adjective serendipitously adverb ORIGIN 1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.”