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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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Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

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.

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Don't let worry kill you. Let the Church help.

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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

All Aboard!
- by Abel Seamann

The Barber of Seville
- by Aaron Floor

School Meals
- by R. E. Volting

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

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

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Good Question

Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

If buttered toast always lands buttered side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what would happen if you tied a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped them both?

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?

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World Firsts

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

Tuesday February 7, 1928

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

Monday February 7, 1983

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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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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

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

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
- African Proverb

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

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World Firsts

Edward of Caernarion, later Edward II, becomes the 1st Prince of Wales.

Monday February 7, 1301

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

Thursday February 7, 1889

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The Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for their 1st United States tour.

Friday February 7, 1964

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Wise Words

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

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

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

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Good Question

How long will a floating point operation float?

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

Can you repeat the part after "Listen very carefully"?

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