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Village Walled Up Their Local Priest

Used News → Religion

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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Did You Know

  • About twenty-five percent of the population will sneeze when they are exposed to light.
  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.
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Dog Missing For Nearly Two Years

Used News → Dog

Monday June 18, 2007

A Tibetan terrier named Arnie who went missing for nearly two years made his way home to his delighted family. Eleven-year-old Arnie, named after movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, disappeared from the garden of his home near Bantry, County Cork, Ireland, 21 months ago.

His owner Gillian Singleton believed he was stolen for breeding purposes. She said her "happy, beautifully groomed dog" had bee ...

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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

  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
  • All babies are color blind when they are born.
  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

The Senior Choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning, to join the Choir.

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh
  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry
  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts
  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting

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Good Question

  • If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?
  • Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo. How come nobody will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down?
  • Do steam rollers really roll steam?
Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • The first Guernsey Cattle Club organizes in New York City.

    Wednesday February 7, 1877

    • Filed Under: → Business & Industry

  • Bruce McCandless of the United States, makes the 1st untethered space walk.

    Tuesday February 7, 1984

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

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

    Friday February 8, 1918

    • Filed Under: → War

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

  • If you refuse to be made straight when you are wet, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
    - 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
  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

  • Edward of Caernarion, later Edward II, becomes the 1st Prince of Wales.

    Monday February 7, 1301

    • Filed Under: → Miscellaneous

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

    Tuesday February 7, 1956

    • Filed Under: → Education

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

    Thursday February 7, 1991

    • Filed Under: → Politics

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Wise Words

  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb
  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb
  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb

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Good Question

  • Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
  • How come wrong numbers are never busy?
  • If love is blind, why is Lingerie so popular?

Filed Under: → Good Question