摘要：Considered one of the most famous movie lines–perhaps given that Rick Blaine (HumphreyBogart) delivers it when Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), his formerflame, suddenly walks intohis Café Américain in Casablanca. Rick’s comment is definitely more memorable than‘whata coincidence’. For historians, the concept of coincidence generally has a negative connotation–an inadequate basis for the explanation of events. Hekster (2016, 217) notes that historiansfrequently link coincidence to‘contingent circumstance’,‘chance’even‘luck’.
