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Saturday November 1, 2003

It's a boy, no a girl - for Heather and Paul McCartney. Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers, especially Britain's Daily Mirror.

It got it spectacularly wrong when it announced the birth of a new baby for 61-year-old superstar Sir Paul McCartney's and his wife Heather Mills. Proudly revealing its world scoop, the front page banner headline screamed: "It's a boy! Exclusive - Macca ...

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Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.

Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

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Thursday night is Potluck Supper. Prayer and medication to follow.

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Don't let worry kill you. Let the Church help.

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Our next song is: "Angels We Have Heard Get High."

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Fun Book Titles

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

School Meals
- by R. E. Volting

All Aboard!
- by Abel Seamann

Apologizing Made Simple
- by Thayer Thorry

My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
- by I. M. Nutty

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Good Question

Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

What will fall on the lawn first? An autumn leaf or a Christmas catalogue?

How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

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World Firsts

The 1st indoor 15' pole vault, completed by Cornelius Warmerdam, achieving 15 feet 3/8 inches.

Saturday February 7, 1942

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John Ames Sherman of Massachusetts, United States, patents the 1st envelope folding and gumming machine.

Tuesday February 8, 1898

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Richard Johnson is the 1st Vice President chosen by the United States Senate. It happened during the Van Buren administration.

Wednesday February 8, 1837

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Events

A father and son in Alabama were killed when they crashed into each other in a head-on collision. Jeffrey Morris Brasher and his son Austin Blaine Brasher of Bankston, Alabama, died early Saturday morning.

Jeffrey Brasher was driving a 2006 Ford pickup and his son was driving a 2004 Chevrolet truck when they collided on a highway head-on, said Alabama State Trooper Jonathon Appling.

Saturday February 18, 2017

Filed Under: → Deaths

Relatives of a 91-year-old Ohio woman who died this week are giving her the last word with a sassy, occasionally profane obituary that starts with the basics, "I was born. I lived. I died.", and instructs people to "Wait the appropriate amount of time" before trying to claim her stuff.

They wrote it in Jean Oddi's perspective, recapping the people important to her, adventures she had and her favorite activities, including playing cards and teaching her granddaughter "dirty songs".

Thursday February 23, 2017

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The man known as the 'Crocodile Hunter' died after his chest was punctured by a stingray barb while diving off Australia's northeast coast. The 44 year-old colourful personality was filming a documentary about the Great Barrier Reef when tragedy struck.

According to friend and colleague, John Stainton, Steve Irwin swam too close to the ray while he was diving off his boat "Croc One" near Batt Reef, northeast of Port Douglas.

Monday September 4, 2006

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Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
- African Proverb

Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
- African Proverb

Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
- African Proverb

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World Firsts

The 1st recorded race meet in England happens at Roodee Fields, Chester.

Friday February 9, 1540

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The 1st appearance of cholera happens in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Monday February 6, 1832

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Edward of Caernarion, later Edward II, becomes the 1st Prince of Wales.

Monday February 7, 1301

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Wise Words

If you refuse to be made straight when you are wet, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
- African Proverb

Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
- African Proverb

Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
- African Proverb

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Good Question

Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes. Why can't they make the whole plane out of the same material?

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