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Did You Know

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

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

  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

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  • During World War II, Uncle Bens was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.

  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.

  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

Quips

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

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

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Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.

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Fun Book Titles

  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh

  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann

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Good Question

  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

  • If there are 52 weeks in a year, how many weeks are there in a light year?

  • When a doctor doctors a doctor does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

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World Firsts

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

    Monday February 7, 1983

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


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

    Tuesday February 7, 1984

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


  • The 1st appearance of cholera happens in Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Monday February 6, 1832

  • Filed Under: → Medicine


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


  • Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
    - African Proverb

  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

  • Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
    - African Proverb

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 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off piloted by Bert Hinkler.

    Tuesday February 7, 1928

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


  • Joe DiMaggio becomes the 1st $100,000 a year baseball player. He plays for the New York Yankees.

    Monday February 7, 1949

  • Filed Under: → Sports


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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

  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

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Good Question

  • If CON is the opposite of PRO, is congress the opposite of progress?

  • Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo. How come nobody will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down?

  • If a fly has no wings would you call him a walk?

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