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Monday July 23, 2007

Church leaders are using the magic of Harry Potter to help spread the Christian message. In the past Harry Potter books and movies have been attacked by evangelicals for 'glamorizing the occult.' But now a guide published by the Church of England advises youth workers how to use the wizardry of fantasy novelist J. K. Rowling as a launch pad for exploring Bible themes.

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A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

Another name for a Microsoft Windows 98 tutorial was Crash Course!

Quips

Our next song is: "Angels We Have Heard Get High."

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At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?".
Come early and listen to the choir practice.

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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

School Meals
- by R. E. Volting

The Barber of Seville
- by Aaron Floor

How to Feed Elephants
- by P. Nutts

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

All Aboard!
- by Abel Seamann

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Good Question

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?

How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

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?

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World Firsts

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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"Stars & Stripes Weekly", the United States Armed Forces newspaper is first published.

Friday February 8, 1918

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"Monopoly" the board game goes on sale for the 1st time.

Wednesday February 6, 1935

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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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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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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

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

The first storm warnings for ships was issued by English Admiral, Robert Ritzroy.

Wednesday February 6, 1861

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New Jersey issues its 1st U.S. railroad charter. The proprietors included the famous inventor John Stevens.

Monday February 6, 1815

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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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Wise Words

Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
- 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

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

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Good Question

Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

If CON is the opposite of PRO, is congress the opposite of progress?

How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

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