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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

  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!
  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
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Villagers Apologize For Eating Missionary

Used News → Religion

Monday September 15, 2003

After eating an English missionary in 1867, contrite villagers in Fiji are now eating humble pie and want to say they are sorry. Reverend Thomas Baker, from Playden, East Sussex, was cooked and eaten by the people of the remote mountain village of Navatusila.

The only thing left of Mr. Baker, a clergyman with the Wesleyan Methodist Church, were his leather boots, and they even attempted to chew ...

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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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Perfect Answer To Shopping In Peace

Used News → Marriage

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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Did You Know

  • Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.
  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Signs

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann
  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty
  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor
  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry
  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh

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Good Question

  • 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?
  • What will fall on the lawn first? An autumn leaf or a Christmas catalogue?
  • Can you repeat the part after "Listen very carefully"?
Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • The 1st successful United States educational magazine "Academician", starts publishing in New York City.

    Saturday February 7, 1818

    • Filed Under: → Education

  • New Jersey issues its 1st U.S. railroad charter. The proprietors included the famous inventor John Stevens.

    Monday February 6, 1815

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

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

    Tuesday February 7, 1984

    • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Wise Words

  • Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
    - 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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World Firsts

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

    Wednesday February 8, 1837

    • Filed Under: → Politics

  • The 1st successful United States educational magazine "Academician", starts publishing in New York City.

    Saturday February 7, 1818

    • Filed Under: → Education

  • Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected President.

    Thursday February 7, 1991

    • Filed Under: → Politics

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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
  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian 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

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Good Question

  • Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo. How come nobody will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down?
  • 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?
  • If love is blind, why is Lingerie so popular?

Filed Under: → Good Question