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Did You Know

  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

  • All babies are color blind when they are born.

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

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  • About twenty-five percent of the population will sneeze when they are exposed to light.

  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.

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

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices


Thursday night is Potluck Supper. Prayer and medication to follow.

Filed Under: Church Notices


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

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Fun Book Titles

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh

  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting

  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff

  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

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Good Question

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

  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

  • Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment but when you transport something by ship it's called cargo?

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World Firsts

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

    Friday February 9, 1540

  • Filed Under: → Sports


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

    Tuesday February 7, 1984

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


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

    Monday February 6, 1832

  • Filed Under: → Medicine


Events

  • 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


  • 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


  • 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

  • Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
    - African Proverb

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

World Firsts

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

    Saturday February 7, 1818

  • Filed Under: → Education


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

    Tuesday February 7, 1984

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


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Wise Words

  • Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
    - African Proverb

  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb

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

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Good Question

  • If a fly has no wings would you call him a walk?

  • Why does an inspiring sight like a sunrise always have to take place at such an inconvenient time?

  • Can you repeat the part after "Listen very carefully"?

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