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Perfect Answer To Shopping In Peace

Used News → Marriage

Tuesday October 7, 2003

A German bar has come up with the perfect answer for women who like to shop in peace without the stress of moaning partners - a kindergarten for men. For a mere $11.80 a woman can dump her husband at the Noxbar in downtown Hamburg, while she can get on with her shopping.

The woman can shop till she drops in the city's attractive boutiques, while her man is kept fully occupied and amused at the ...

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Did You Know

  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
  • An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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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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Loved In America, Not So Much In London

Used News → Entertainment

Sunday September 21, 2003

Famous for his magical illusions and stunts in America, but not all Londoners are impressed by David Blaine's bid to spend 40 days without food in a glass box suspended from a crane in the centre of the English capital. Shortly after the American began his stunt he was pelted with eggs, taunted with the smell of fish and chips and woken up by a man banging on a drum. ...

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Did You Know

  • About twenty-five percent of the population will sneeze when they are exposed to light.
  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and the deterioration of some of the older ones.

Filed Under: Church Notices

This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and North ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.

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Fun Book Titles

  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry
  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor
  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh
  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann
  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff

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Good Question

  • If a fly has no wings would you call him a walk?
  • Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?
  • Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment but when you transport something by ship it's called cargo?
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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

  • Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minnesota became the 1st United States Ski Club.

    Tuesday February 8, 1887

    • Filed Under: → Sports

  • France recognizes the United States of America and signs a treaty of aid in Paris; it's the 1st U.S. treaty.

    Friday February 6, 1778

    • Filed Under: → War

Events

  • 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

  • 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

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
  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb
  • Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

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

    Wednesday February 7, 1877

    • Filed Under: → Business & Industry

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

    Thursday February 7, 1991

    • Filed Under: → Politics

  • John Ames Sherman of Massachusetts, United States, patents the 1st envelope folding and gumming machine.

    Tuesday February 8, 1898

    • Filed Under: → Business & Industry

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Wise Words

  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb
  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb
  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian 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?
  • How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
  • Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

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