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Man Had Himself Shipped By Air

Used News → Crime Beat

Tuesday September 9, 2003

Criminal charges were filed by Federal Prosecutors against a man who had himself shipped by air in a crate from New York to Dallas to visit his parents. Charles D. McKinley was charged with stowing away on a cargo jet.

McKinley, a 25-year-old shipping clerk at a New York warehouse, journeyed overnight about 1,500 miles by truck, plane and delivery van before startling his parents by popping out ...

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Did You Know

  • During World War II, Uncle Bens was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
  • All babies are color blind when they are born.
  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!
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Indias Version Of Dirty Harry

Used News → Crime Beat

Sunday September 21, 2003

India's version of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry, the zero tolerance Bombay policeman who dispenses justice from the barrel of a gun, has killed 105 suspects and shows no signs of stopping. While Inspector Pradeep Sharma's methods are questioned by human rights groups, he remains unrepentant.

In fact he insists in language that might have come straight out of a Clint Eastwood movie that he acts ...

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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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Its A Boy, No A Girl

Used News → Births

Saturday November 1, 2003

It's a boy, no a girl - for Heather and Paul McCartney. Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers, especially Britain's Daily Mirror.

It got it spectacularly wrong when it announced the birth of a new baby for 61-year-old superstar Sir Paul McCartney's and his wife Heather Mills. Proudly revealing its world scoop, the front page banner headline screamed: "It's a boy! Exclusive - Macca ...

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Did You Know

  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
  • Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

Quips

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

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

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty
  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry
  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor
  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting

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Good Question

  • 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?
  • Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
  • If a fly has no wings would you call him a walk?
Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • The first storm warnings for ships was issued by English Admiral, Robert Ritzroy.

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

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

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

    • Filed Under: → Politics

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

    Friday February 8, 1918

    • 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

  • 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

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
  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb

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World Firsts

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

    Thursday February 7, 1889

    • Filed Under: → Science

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

    Monday February 7, 1983

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

  • 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

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

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Good Question

  • Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
  • How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
  • If there are 52 weeks in a year, how many weeks are there in a light year?

Filed Under: → Good Question