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Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. The word derives from an old Persian fairy tale and was coined by [[Horace Walpole]] on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend [[Horace Mann]] (not the same man as the famed American educator), an Englishman then living in [[Florence]]. The letter read,

Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. The word derives from an old Persian fairy tale and was coined by [[Horace Walpole]] on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend [[Horace Mann]] (not the same man as the famed American educator), an Englishman then living in [[Florence]]. The letter read,