News Thats Used

Tuesday September 16, 2003

The people in a remote Italian village walled up their local Priest in the parish church to prevent him from leaving. Fr. Emilio Succhiella became a 'prisoner of love' after Capuchin Franciscans decided to withdraw from Trasacco, in the mountainous Abruzzo region near Rome, after 428 years of service.

Protesting villagers took the unusual step after they had unsuccessfully appealed to the Order ...

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During World War II, Uncle Bens was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.

Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.

Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

The Senior Choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning, to join the Choir.

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Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.

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Fun Book Titles

Neck Exercises
- by G. Rarff

All Aboard!
- by Abel Seamann

The Barber of Seville
- by Aaron Floor

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

How to Feed Elephants
- by P. Nutts

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Good Question

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

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

Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

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World Firsts

The 1st appearance of cholera happens in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Monday February 6, 1832

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

Tuesday February 7, 1956

Filed Under: → Education

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

Wednesday February 6, 1861

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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

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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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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