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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

  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.
  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
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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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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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19 Year Coma

Used News → Old News

Wednesday June 6, 2007

Polish railway worker Jan Grzebski lost consciousness in 1988 after being struck by a train. He suffered horrific injuries when his head was trapped between two carriages. He didn't come out of his coma until Sunday June 3, 2007 when he opened his eyes to see his devoted wife Gertruda's face looking at him. She cared for him all through his coma. Mr. Grzebski was given only about two years to live ...

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Did You Know

  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!
  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
  • About twenty-five percent of the population will sneeze when they are exposed to light.

Quips

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

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

Filed Under: Signs

The Vicar is on vacation. Massages can be given to the Church Secretary.

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh
  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts
  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt
  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor

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Good Question

  • Why do you need a drivers license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?
  • 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?
  • Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • "Monopoly" the board game goes on sale for the 1st time.

    Wednesday February 6, 1935

    • Filed Under: → Business & Industry

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

    Friday February 9, 1540

    • Filed Under: → Sports

  • The 1st successful United States educational magazine "Academician", starts publishing in New York City.

    Saturday February 7, 1818

    • Filed Under: → Education

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

Wise Words

  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - 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

  • The 1st successful United States educational magazine "Academician", starts publishing in New York City.

    Saturday February 7, 1818

    • Filed Under: → Education

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

    Thursday February 7, 1991

    • Filed Under: → Politics

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

    Friday February 7, 1964

    • Filed Under: → Entertainment

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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
  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb
  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • How come wrong numbers are never busy?
  • If love is blind, why is Lingerie so popular?
  • How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

Filed Under: → Good Question