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These experts, notable among them Stephen M. Dickson of the Maine Department of Conservation and L. Kenneth Fink of the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine, quickly fingered the culprit: the concrete sidewalk, erected some 75 years ago by an island benefactor--one Mr. Stanley of Steamer fame.
Serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole from the fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip (the ancient name for Ceylon), who often set sail for one destination and found something even better, by fortunate accident.
' Jones quotes Walpole as saying, “The French have tied up the hands of an excellent fanfaron, a Major Washington, whom they took and engaged to serve for a year.”
Again no certain meaning is recorded though it is believed to have been first used when Sir Robert Walpole was Prime Minister of England in the 18th century.