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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

  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.
  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
  • An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
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Stark Ultimatum For 840 Pound Man

Used News → Old News

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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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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Handels Messiah Gets An X Rating

Used News → Entertainment

Wednesday February 19, 2003

Handel's world famous Messiah, recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, has been given an X rating by an online music store. Apple Computer's online iTunes Music Store marked the baroque composer's masterpiece with the red warning that indicates the content might not be appropriate for young children or others with sensitive tastes. ...

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Did You Know

  • Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
  • A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
  • During World War II, Uncle Bens was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.

Quips

Sign seen in a bar: "Those drinking to forget, please pay in advance."

Filed Under: Signs

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

Fun Book Titles

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts
  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann
  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty
  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt

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Good Question

  • Does killing time damage eternity?
  • How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
  • Why do you need a drivers license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?
Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

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

    Tuesday February 7, 1984

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

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

    Friday February 8, 1918

    • Filed Under: → War

  • John Ames Sherman of Massachusetts, United States, patents the 1st envelope folding and gumming machine.

    Tuesday February 8, 1898

    • Filed Under: → Business & Industry

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

  • If you refuse to be made straight when you are wet, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
    - African Proverb
  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - African Proverb
  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

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World Firsts

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

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

    • Filed Under: → Politics

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

    Monday February 7, 1983

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

  • New Jersey issues its 1st U.S. railroad charter. The proprietors included the famous inventor John Stevens.

    Monday February 6, 1815

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

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Wise Words

  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb
  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - 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

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • If CON is the opposite of PRO, is congress the opposite of progress?
  • Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
  • You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?

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