News Thats Used

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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Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Thursday night is Potluck Supper. Prayer and medication to follow.

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The Minister unveiled the Church's new donations campaign on Sunday: "I upped my Pledge - Up Yours".

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Fun Book Titles

Neck Exercises
- by G. Rarff

All Aboard!
- by Abel Seamann

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

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

How to Feed Elephants
- by P. Nutts

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Good Question

Does killing time damage eternity?

If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?

How come wrong numbers are never busy?

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World Firsts

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

Thursday February 7, 1991

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

Wednesday February 8, 1837

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

Monday February 6, 1815

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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

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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

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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

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