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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

  • All babies are color blind when they are born.
  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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Village Walled Up Their Local Priest

Used News → Religion

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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1st Recorded Race Meet
Stars And Stripes Weekly
1st Envelope Machine
1st United States Ski Club
1st Vice President Chosen By The Senate
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
1st Untethered Space Walk
Female Secretary Of Transportation
Beatles Land At New York JFK Airport
Autherine Lucy 1st Black Student
Joe DiMaggio Becomes The 1st
1st Indoor 15 Foot Pole Vault

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Police Website Visitors See A Cuddly Monster

Used News → Crime Beat

Thursday February 28, 2008

Visitors to the UK's Metropolitan Police recruitment website saw a cuddly monster on the weekend, after a hacker broke into the site.

The cheeky hackers broke into London's Metropolitan Police recruitment website, and posted a picture of a cuddly toy on its front page. Beneath the picture of the green stripy animal they added taunting comments. ...

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Did You Know

  • About twenty-five percent of the population will sneeze when they are exposed to light.
  • All babies are color blind when they are born.
  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.

Quips

Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.

Filed Under: Church Notices

The Senior Choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning, to join the Choir.

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty
  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor
  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry
  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

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Good Question

  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
  • What will fall on the lawn first? An autumn leaf or a Christmas catalogue?
  • How come wrong numbers are never busy?
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World Firsts

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

    Sunday February 7, 1915

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

  • The Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for their 1st United States tour.

    Friday February 7, 1964

    • Filed Under: → Entertainment

  • "Stars & Stripes Weekly", the United States Armed Forces newspaper is first published.

    Friday February 8, 1918

    • Filed Under: → War

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

    • Filed Under: → Deaths

  • 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

Wise Words

  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - 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
  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

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

    Sunday February 7, 1915

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

  • "Stars & Stripes Weekly", the United States Armed Forces newspaper is first published.

    Friday February 8, 1918

    • Filed Under: → War

  • Joe DiMaggio becomes the 1st $100,000 a year baseball player. He plays for the New York Yankees.

    Monday February 7, 1949

    • Filed Under: → Sports

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Wise Words

  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb
  • Indecision is like a stepchild. If he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
    - African Proverb
  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb

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Good Question

  • If love is blind, why is Lingerie so popular?
  • What will fall on the lawn first? An autumn leaf or a Christmas catalogue?
  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

Filed Under: → Good Question