News Thats Used

Sunday September 21, 2003

India's version of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry, the zero tolerance Bombay policeman who dispenses justice from the barrel of a gun, has killed 105 suspects and shows no signs of stopping. While Inspector Pradeep Sharma's methods are questioned by human rights groups, he remains unrepentant.

In fact he insists in language that might have come straight out of a Clint Eastwood movie that he acts ...

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

Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

Quips

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

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Weight Watchers will meet at 7.30 pm at the Presbyterian Church. Please use the large double doors at the side entrance.

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

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Fun Book Titles

The Barber of Seville
- by Aaron Floor

Apologizing Made Simple
- by Thayer Thorry

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

School Meals
- by R. E. Volting

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

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Good Question

If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?

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?

Why does an inspiring sight like a sunrise always have to take place at such an inconvenient time?

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World Firsts

1st meeting of the Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America.

Wednesday February 6, 1861

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Bruce McCandless of the United States, makes the 1st untethered space walk.

Tuesday February 7, 1984

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The United States swears in its 1st female Secretary of Transportation, namely Elizabeth Dole.

Monday February 7, 1983

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Events

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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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

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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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