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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

  • During World War II, Uncle Bens was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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Newspaper Called Good News Closes

Used News → Old News

Saturday February 25, 2017

A good news newspaper called Good News was founded because its American proprietors believed people were tired of reading bad news. The bi-weekly paper refused to publish any bad news and only printed the good news.

After just 16 months in operation the paper closed down. But it stuck to its guns of publishing only good news to the bitter end and refused to announce its own failure - this would ...

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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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Police Website Visitors See A Cuddly Monster

Used News → Crime Beat

Thursday February 28, 2008

Visitors to the UK's Metropolitan Police recruitment website saw a cuddly monster on the weekend, after a hacker broke into the site.

The cheeky hackers broke into London's Metropolitan Police recruitment website, and posted a picture of a cuddly toy on its front page. Beneath the picture of the green stripy animal they added taunting comments. ...

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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.
  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
  • Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Signs

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Signs

Fun Book Titles

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts
  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry
  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting
  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty
  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh

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Good Question

  • Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?
  • If a fly has no wings would you call him a walk?
  • How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • The 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station is received.

    Sunday February 7, 1915

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

  • 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

    • Filed Under: → War

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

    Tuesday February 7, 1928

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

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

  • 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

Wise Words

  • Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
    - African Proverb
  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb
  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

  • The 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station is received.

    Sunday February 7, 1915

    • Filed Under: → Travel Section

  • Autherine Lucy, the 1st black student admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled.

    Tuesday February 7, 1956

    • Filed Under: → Education

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

    Friday February 9, 1540

    • Filed Under: → Sports

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Wise Words

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

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • If CON is the opposite of PRO, is congress the opposite of progress?
  • If there are 52 weeks in a year, how many weeks are there in a light year?
  • 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?

Filed Under: → Good Question