News Thats Used

Friday February 3, 2017

According to a hospital in Spain, a woman gave birth to twins at the age of 64. A News release from Hospital Recoletas Burgos, a hospital in Burgos, Spain, the sexagenarian gave birth via C-section to a boy and a girl, and all three patients are in perfect health.

The woman, who is being identified by her initials, had undergone IVF treatment in the United States before returning to Spain.

R ...

Read All About It →

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

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

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

The Barber of Seville
- by Aaron Floor

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

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

Neck Exercises
- by G. Rarff

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

View More: Book Titles

Good Question

You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?

Can you repeat the part after "Listen very carefully"?

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?

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

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

Wednesday February 6, 1935

Filed Under: → Business & Industry

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

Tuesday February 7, 1984

Filed Under: → Travel Section

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

Thursday February 7, 1991

Filed Under: → Politics

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

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

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