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Legal To Dance In Public

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Thursday February 23, 2017

Dancing in public is now legal throughout Henryetta, Oklahoma. City leaders voted Tuesday to abolish an ordinance on dancing. The dance ordinance, with a penalty of $25, prohibited dance halls within 500 feet of a church or public school.

In February, resident Joni Insabella decided to host a dance above her store, which is within 500 feet of a church. The city's Chamber of Commerce posted abou ...

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  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
  • Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
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King Mswati III Selects Bride Number 12

Used News → Marriage

Friday September 12, 2003

Swaziland's King Mswati III selected bride number 12, less than a week after he picked his 11th bride from thousands of young Swazi maidens. Mswati's 12th bride was identified as 18-year-old Nomonde Fihla, who was crowned the first princess in the Miss Swaziland 2003 pageant. In an interview at the time, she told a magazine she did not believe in polygamy.

Fihla was one of thousands of maidens ...

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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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Legal To Dance In Public

Used News → Crime Beat

Thursday February 23, 2017

Dancing in public is now legal throughout Henryetta, Oklahoma. City leaders voted Tuesday to abolish an ordinance on dancing. The dance ordinance, with a penalty of $25, prohibited dance halls within 500 feet of a church or public school.

In February, resident Joni Insabella decided to host a dance above her store, which is within 500 feet of a church. The city's Chamber of Commerce posted abou ...

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Did You Know

  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
  • Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Fun Book Titles

  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting
  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts
  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty
  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh

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Good Question

  • Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
  • What will fall on the lawn first? An autumn leaf or a Christmas catalogue?
  • Can you repeat the part after "Listen very carefully"?
Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • 1st meeting of the Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America.

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

    • Filed Under: → Politics

  • The 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station is received.

    Sunday February 7, 1915

    • 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

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

  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian 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
  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

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World Firsts

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

    Thursday February 7, 1991

    • Filed Under: → Politics

  • New Jersey issues its 1st U.S. railroad charter. The proprietors included the famous inventor John Stevens.

    Monday February 6, 1815

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

  • 1st meeting of the Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America.

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

    • Filed Under: → Politics

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Wise Words

  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb
  • Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
    - African Proverb
  • Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
    - African Proverb

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Good Question

  • 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?
  • What will fall on the lawn first? An autumn leaf or a Christmas catalogue?
  • Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

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