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

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

Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

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The 1991 Spring Council Retreat will be hell May 10 and 11.

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

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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

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

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

Apologizing Made Simple
- by Thayer Thorry

All Aboard!
- by Abel Seamann

Neck Exercises
- by G. Rarff

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Good Question

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

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?

Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

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World Firsts

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

Saturday February 7, 1818

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Joe DiMaggio becomes the 1st $100,000 a year baseball player. He plays for the New York Yankees.

Monday February 7, 1949

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

Tuesday February 7, 1984

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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

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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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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
- American Indian Proverb

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
- African Proverb

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

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World Firsts

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

Tuesday February 7, 1984

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

Wednesday February 6, 1861

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The United States swears in its 1st female Secretary of Transportation, namely Elizabeth Dole.

Monday February 7, 1983

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Wise Words

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
- African Proverb

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
- American Indian Proverb

When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
- African Proverb

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Good Question

What will fall on the lawn first? An autumn leaf or a Christmas catalogue?

Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes. Why can't they make the whole plane out of the same material?

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