News Thats Used

Wednesday July 18, 2007

Two babies were left starving and suffering health problems while their parents played Dungeons & Dragons. American couple Michael and Iana Straw, 25 and 23, from Nevada pleaded guilty to child neglect, brought about by their obsession with internet and video games, authorities said. Their children, a boy aged 22 months and girl aged 11 months, were badly malnourished and near to death last month ...

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A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.

An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

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

Quips

This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and North ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.

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Weight Watchers will meet at 7.30 pm at the Presbyterian Church. Please use the large double doors at the side entrance.

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

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Fun Book Titles

School Meals
- by R. E. Volting

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

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

Neck Exercises
- by G. Rarff

Apologizing Made Simple
- by Thayer Thorry

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Good Question

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

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

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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World Firsts

The 1st indoor 15' pole vault, completed by Cornelius Warmerdam, achieving 15 feet 3/8 inches.

Saturday February 7, 1942

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

Thursday February 7, 1991

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

Friday February 9, 1540

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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

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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