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

A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!

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For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

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

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

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

All Aboard!
- by Abel Seamann

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

Peek-a-Boo!
- by I. C. Hugh

Apologizing Made Simple
- by Thayer Thorry

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Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo. How come nobody will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down?

If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?

How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

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World Firsts

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

Friday February 9, 1540

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

Saturday February 7, 1818

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

Thursday February 7, 1991

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

Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
- African Proverb

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
- African Proverb

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25,000 Workers Died Building The Panama Canal
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Microsoft Windows 98
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Backward Flowing River
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World Firsts

The 1st indoor 15' pole vault, completed by Cornelius Warmerdam, achieving 15 feet 3/8 inches.

Saturday February 7, 1942

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

Tuesday February 7, 1928

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France recognizes the United States of America and signs a treaty of aid in Paris; it's the 1st U.S. treaty.

Friday February 6, 1778

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Wise Words

When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
- African Proverb

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
- African Proverb

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

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When a doctor doctors a doctor does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?

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 at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

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