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The Largest Rodent Ever

Used News → Wildlife

Friday September 19, 2003

The largest rodent ever was a giant guinea pig as big as a buffalo, which lived in South America eight million years ago, researchers say this week in the journal Science.

More than twice as heavy as the previous record holder, it was more than 10 times the size of today's largest living rodent, the South American Capybara. This giant rodent grazed on grasses, which it must have eaten in large ...

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Did You Know

  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
  • Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!
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Britain Has A Millionaire Shoplifter

Used News → Crime Beat

Monday October 15, 2007

Britain has a Millionaire Shoplifter on their Most Wanted List. He dresses in expensive designer clothes and stays at the poshest hotels. But Kevin Castle who hides behind the face of a respectable businessman is a 'Millionaire Shoplifter' who makes £1,000 (over $2000) a day from his crimes.

British police, who are hunting the well-dressed crook with a taste for the good life, have declared hi ...

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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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Perfect Answer To Shopping In Peace

Used News → Marriage

Tuesday October 7, 2003

A German bar has come up with the perfect answer for women who like to shop in peace without the stress of moaning partners - a kindergarten for men. For a mere $11.80 a woman can dump her husband at the Noxbar in downtown Hamburg, while she can get on with her shopping.

The woman can shop till she drops in the city's attractive boutiques, while her man is kept fully occupied and amused at the ...

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Did You Know

  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
  • Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.
  • All babies are color blind when they are born.

Quips

Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and the deterioration of some of the older ones.

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

Filed Under: Church Notices

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

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Fun Book Titles

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts
  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann
  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor
  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff
  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty

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Good Question

  • What will fall on the lawn first? An autumn leaf or a Christmas catalogue?
  • You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?
  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
Filed Under: Good Question

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 appearance of cholera happens in Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Monday February 6, 1832

    • Filed Under: → Medicine

  • The first Guernsey Cattle Club organizes in New York City.

    Wednesday February 7, 1877

    • Filed Under: → Business & Industry

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

    • 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

Wise Words

  • Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
    - African Proverb
  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - African Proverb
  • Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
    - African Proverb

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World Firsts

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

    Thursday February 7, 1991

    • Filed Under: → Politics

  • Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minnesota became the 1st United States Ski Club.

    Tuesday February 8, 1887

    • Filed Under: → Sports

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

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

    • Filed Under: → Politics

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Wise Words

  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - 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
  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb

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Good Question

  • How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
  • 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?
  • If buttered toast always lands buttered side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what would happen if you tied a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped them both?

Filed Under: → Good Question