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Church Leaders Are Using The Magic Of Harry Potter

Used News → Religion

Monday July 23, 2007

Church leaders are using the magic of Harry Potter to help spread the Christian message. In the past Harry Potter books and movies have been attacked by evangelicals for 'glamorizing the occult.' But now a guide published by the Church of England advises youth workers how to use the wizardry of fantasy novelist J. K. Rowling as a launch pad for exploring Bible themes.

The publication of the gui ...

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Did You Know

  • An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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Perfect Answer To Shopping In Peace

Used News → Marriage

Tuesday October 7, 2003

A German bar has come up with the perfect answer for women who like to shop in peace without the stress of moaning partners - a kindergarten for men. For a mere $11.80 a woman can dump her husband at the Noxbar in downtown Hamburg, while she can get on with her shopping.

The woman can shop till she drops in the city's attractive boutiques, while her man is kept fully occupied and amused at the ...

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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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Spike Milligan Has The Last Laugh

Used News → Deaths

Tuesday May 25, 2004

Even in death Irish comic genius Spike Milligan managed to have the last laugh. Two years after his death at his home in Sussex, England, the creator of "The Goon Show" has finally got the epitaph he wanted.

A headstone bearing the words "I told you I was ill" has been erected above his grave at St. Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex. Sadly for more than two years after his death at the ...

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Did You Know

  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!
  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
  • All babies are color blind when they are born.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Weight Watchers will meet at 7.30 pm at the Presbyterian Church. Please use the large double doors at the side entrance.

Filed Under: Church Notices

The Vicar is on vacation. Massages can be given to the Church Secretary.

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Fun Book Titles

  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting
  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh
  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt
  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

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Good Question

  • If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?
  • 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 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?
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World Firsts

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

    Tuesday February 8, 1887

    • Filed Under: → Sports

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

    Friday February 9, 1540

    • Filed Under: → Sports

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

    Wednesday February 6, 1935

    • Filed Under: → Business & Industry

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

Wise Words

  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb
  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb
  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

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

    Monday February 6, 1832

    • Filed Under: → Medicine

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

    Monday February 7, 1983

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

  • Richard Johnson is the 1st Vice President chosen by the United States Senate. It happened during the Van Buren administration.

    Wednesday February 8, 1837

    • Filed Under: → Politics

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Wise Words

  • When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
    - African Proverb
  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb
  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb

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Good Question

  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
  • You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?
  • Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo. How come nobody will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down?

Filed Under: → Good Question