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19 Year Coma

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Wednesday June 6, 2007

Polish railway worker Jan Grzebski lost consciousness in 1988 after being struck by a train. He suffered horrific injuries when his head was trapped between two carriages. He didn't come out of his coma until Sunday June 3, 2007 when he opened his eyes to see his devoted wife Gertruda's face looking at him. She cared for him all through his coma. Mr. Grzebski was given only about two years to live ...

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  • All babies are color blind when they are born.
  • During World War II, Uncle Bens was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
  • Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
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Winners Of The IgNobel Awards

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Friday October 3, 2003

An Indian who was officially dead for 18 years and the scientists who invented Murphy's law were among the winners of the IgNobel Awards.

The awards are a spoof on the Nobel Prizes, celebrated annually in Boston to honor achievements that "cannot or should not be reproduced." They are presented by science humor magazine 'Annals of Improbable Research' and several groups at Harvard and Radcliffe ...

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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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Winners Of The IgNobel Awards

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Friday October 3, 2003

An Indian who was officially dead for 18 years and the scientists who invented Murphy's law were among the winners of the IgNobel Awards.

The awards are a spoof on the Nobel Prizes, celebrated annually in Boston to honor achievements that "cannot or should not be reproduced." They are presented by science humor magazine 'Annals of Improbable Research' and several groups at Harvard and Radcliffe ...

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Did You Know

  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!
  • About twenty-five percent of the population will sneeze when they are exposed to light.
  • A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

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

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

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At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?".
Come early and listen to the choir practice.

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Fun Book Titles

  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt
  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting
  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts
  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry

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Good Question

  • Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo. How come nobody will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down?
  • Does killing time damage eternity?
  • Do steam rollers really roll steam?
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World Firsts

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

    Tuesday February 7, 1984

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

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

    Monday February 7, 1301

    • Filed Under: → Miscellaneous

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

    Friday February 9, 1540

    • Filed Under: → Sports

Events

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb
  • Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
    - African Proverb
  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

  • The 1st indoor 15' pole vault, completed by Cornelius Warmerdam, achieving 15 feet 3/8 inches.

    Saturday February 7, 1942

    • Filed Under: → Sports

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

    Monday February 7, 1983

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

  • The first storm warnings for ships was issued by English Admiral, Robert Ritzroy.

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

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Wise Words

  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - 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
  • If you refuse to be made straight when you are wet, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
    - African Proverb

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Good Question

  • You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes. Why can't they make the whole plane out of the same material?
  • Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
  • If CON is the opposite of PRO, is congress the opposite of progress?

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