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Did You Know

  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!

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

  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

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  • Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

  • Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

Quips

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

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


Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.

Filed Under: Church Notices


Fun Book Titles

  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting

  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt

  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann

  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor

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

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Good Question

  • Why do you need a drivers license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?

  • What will fall on the lawn first? An autumn leaf or a Christmas catalogue?

  • If CON is the opposite of PRO, is congress the opposite of progress?

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

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

    Tuesday February 8, 1898

  • Filed Under: → Business & Industry


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

    Friday February 8, 1918

  • Filed Under: → War


  • The 1st recorded race meet in England happens at Roodee Fields, Chester.

    Friday February 9, 1540

  • Filed Under: → Sports


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

  • 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


  • 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

  • Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
    - African Proverb

  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

World Firsts

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

    Tuesday February 8, 1898

  • Filed Under: → Business & Industry


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

    Thursday February 7, 1889

  • Filed Under: → Science


  • The United States swears in its 1st female Secretary of Transportation, namely Elizabeth Dole.

    Monday February 7, 1983

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


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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

  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

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

  • Does killing time damage eternity?

Filed Under: → Good Question