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64 Year Old Gives Birth

Used News Births

Friday February 3, 2017

According to a hospital in Spain, a woman gave birth to twins at the age of 64. A News release from Hospital Recoletas Burgos, a hospital in Burgos, Spain, the sexagenarian gave birth via C-section to a boy and a girl, and all three patients are in perfect health.

The woman, who is being identified by her initials, had undergone IVF treatment in the United States before returning to Spain.

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Did You Know

  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.

  • Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.

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Latest Posts

Tuesday October 7, 2003

A German bar has come up with the perfect answer for women who like to shop in peace without the stress of moaning partners - a kindergarten for men. For a mere $11.80 a woman can dump her husband at the Noxbar in downtown Hamburg, while she can get on with her shopping.

The woman can shop till she drops in the city's attractive boutiques, while her man is kept fully occupied and amused at the ...

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Tuesday September 16, 2003

The people in a remote Italian village walled up their local Priest in the parish church to prevent him from leaving. Fr. Emilio Succhiella became a 'prisoner of love' after Capuchin Franciscans decided to withdraw from Trasacco, in the mountainous Abruzzo region near Rome, after 428 years of service.

Protesting villagers took the unusual step after they had unsuccessfully appealed to the Order ...

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  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

  • An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

  • Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

Quips

The Vicar is on vacation. Massages can be given to the Church Secretary.

Filed Under: Church Notices


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

Filed Under: Church Notices


Sign seen at a Hair Salon: We curl up and dye for you.

Filed Under: Signs


Fun Book Titles

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

  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor

  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt

  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

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Good Question

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

  • If CON is the opposite of PRO, is congress the opposite of progress?

  • Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo. How come nobody will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down?

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

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

    Friday February 9, 1540

  • Filed Under: → Sports


  • Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minnesota became the 1st United States Ski Club.

    Tuesday February 8, 1887

  • Filed Under: → Sports


  • The 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station is received.

    Sunday February 7, 1915

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


Events

  • 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

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • 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

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - African Proverb

  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb

World Firsts

  • Autherine Lucy, the 1st black student admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled.

    Tuesday February 7, 1956

  • Filed Under: → Education


  • The first storm warnings for ships was issued by English Admiral, Robert Ritzroy.

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


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

    Saturday February 7, 1942

  • Filed Under: → Sports


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Wise Words

  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb

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

  • You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?

  • Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

  • When a doctor doctors a doctor does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

Filed Under: → Good Question