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Villagers Apologize For Eating Missionary

Used News Religion

Monday September 15, 2003

After eating an English missionary in 1867, contrite villagers in Fiji are now eating humble pie and want to say they are sorry. Reverend Thomas Baker, from Playden, East Sussex, was cooked and eaten by the people of the remote mountain village of Navatusila.

The only thing left of Mr. Baker, a clergyman with the Wesleyan Methodist Church, were his leather boots, and they even attempted to chew ...

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Did You Know

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

  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

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

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Thursday March 6, 2008

Doctors delivered a stark ultimatum to a 39-year-old Englishman, who grew to a colossal 60 stone, 840 pounds. Colin Corfield's battle for survival was the subject of a poignant and moving ITV television documentary.

The Runcorn pub landlord in Cheshire was warned two years ago that his own body fat could suffocate him. So he decided to take drastic action and have risky gastric surgery. It has ...

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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.

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

  • About twenty-five percent of the population will sneeze when they are exposed to light.

  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices


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

Filed Under: Church Notices


Sign seen at a Hair Salon: We curl up and dye for you.

Filed Under: Signs


Fun Book Titles

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh

  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry

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

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting

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Good Question

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

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

  • Does killing time damage eternity?

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World Firsts

  • "Stars & Stripes Weekly", the United States Armed Forces newspaper is first published.

    Friday February 8, 1918

  • Filed Under: → War


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

    Wednesday February 8, 1837

  • Filed Under: → Politics


  • 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


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


  • 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


  • 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


  • If you refuse to be made straight when you are wet, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
    - African Proverb

  • When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
    - African Proverb

  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb

World Firsts

  • The 1st recorded race meet in England happens at Roodee Fields, Chester.

    Friday February 9, 1540

  • Filed Under: → Sports


  • Astronomical Society of Pacific holds its 1st meeting in San Francisco.

    Thursday February 7, 1889

  • Filed Under: → Science


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

    Tuesday February 7, 1984

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


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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

  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb

  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb

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Good Question

  • Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

  • 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 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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