News Thats Used

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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During World War II, Uncle Bens was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.

All babies are color blind when they are born.

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and the deterioration of some of the older ones.

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

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Fun Book Titles

All Aboard!
- by Abel Seamann

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

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

Apologizing Made Simple
- by Thayer Thorry

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

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Good Question

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

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?

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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 first Guernsey Cattle Club organizes in New York City.

Wednesday February 7, 1877

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

Tuesday February 8, 1898

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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

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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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