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Legal To Dance In Public

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Thursday February 23, 2017

Dancing in public is now legal throughout Henryetta, Oklahoma. City leaders voted Tuesday to abolish an ordinance on dancing. The dance ordinance, with a penalty of $25, prohibited dance halls within 500 feet of a church or public school.

In February, resident Joni Insabella decided to host a dance above her store, which is within 500 feet of a church. The city's Chamber of Commerce posted abou ...

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Did You Know

  • Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!
  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
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King Mswati III Selects Bride Number 12

Used News → Marriage

Friday September 12, 2003

Swaziland's King Mswati III selected bride number 12, less than a week after he picked his 11th bride from thousands of young Swazi maidens. Mswati's 12th bride was identified as 18-year-old Nomonde Fihla, who was crowned the first princess in the Miss Swaziland 2003 pageant. In an interview at the time, she told a magazine she did not believe in polygamy.

Fihla was one of thousands of maidens ...

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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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King Mswati III Selects Bride Number 12

Used News → Marriage

Friday September 12, 2003

Swaziland's King Mswati III selected bride number 12, less than a week after he picked his 11th bride from thousands of young Swazi maidens. Mswati's 12th bride was identified as 18-year-old Nomonde Fihla, who was crowned the first princess in the Miss Swaziland 2003 pageant. In an interview at the time, she told a magazine she did not believe in polygamy.

Fihla was one of thousands of maidens ...

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Did You Know

  • Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.
  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
  • All babies are color blind when they are born.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

The Minister unveiled the Church's new donations campaign on Sunday: "I upped my Pledge - Up Yours".

Filed Under: Church Notices

The 1991 Spring Council Retreat will be hell May 10 and 11.

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh
  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry
  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt
  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts
  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann

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Good Question

  • What will fall on the lawn first? An autumn leaf or a Christmas catalogue?
  • Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?
  • 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?
Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

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

    Thursday February 7, 1991

    • Filed Under: → Politics

  • 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

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

    Tuesday February 7, 1956

    • Filed Under: → Education

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

    • 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

  • 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
  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

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

    Friday February 8, 1918

    • Filed Under: → War

  • John Ames Sherman of Massachusetts, United States, patents the 1st envelope folding and gumming machine.

    Tuesday February 8, 1898

    • Filed Under: → Business & Industry

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

    Tuesday February 8, 1887

    • Filed Under: → Sports

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Wise Words

  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb
  • Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
    - African Proverb
  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb

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Good Question

  • How come wrong numbers are never busy?
  • If CON is the opposite of PRO, is congress the opposite of progress?
  • If buttered toast always lands buttered side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what would happen if you tied a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped them both?

Filed Under: → Good Question