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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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All babies are color blind when they are born.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

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

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

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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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Fun Book Titles

Apologizing Made Simple
- by Thayer Thorry

The Barber of Seville
- by Aaron Floor

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

All Aboard!
- by Abel Seamann

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

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Good Question

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?

Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

Why does an inspiring sight like a sunrise always have to take place at such an inconvenient time?

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World Firsts

"Monopoly" the board game goes on sale for the 1st time.

Wednesday February 6, 1935

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Astronomical Society of Pacific holds its 1st meeting in San Francisco.

Thursday February 7, 1889

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

Saturday February 7, 1818

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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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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
- 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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World Firsts

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

Tuesday February 7, 1956

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

Friday February 7, 1964

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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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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

It takes a village to raise a child.
- African Proverb

When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
- African Proverb

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Good Question

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

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?

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

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