News Thats Used

Friday September 19, 2003

The largest rodent ever was a giant guinea pig as big as a buffalo, which lived in South America eight million years ago, researchers say this week in the journal Science.

More than twice as heavy as the previous record holder, it was more than 10 times the size of today's largest living rodent, the South American Capybara. This giant rodent grazed on grasses, which it must have eaten in large ...

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Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.

Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.

Quips

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

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

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

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Fun Book Titles

Peek-a-Boo!
- by I. C. Hugh

How to Feed Elephants
- by P. Nutts

All Aboard!
- by Abel Seamann

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

Neck Exercises
- by G. Rarff

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Good Question

If there are 52 weeks in a year, how many weeks are there in a light year?

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?

If a fly has no wings would you call him a walk?

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

Monday February 6, 1832

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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

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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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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