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Tuesday September 16, 2003

The people in a remote Italian village walled up their local Priest in the parish church to prevent him from leaving. Fr. Emilio Succhiella became a 'prisoner of love' after Capuchin Franciscans decided to withdraw from Trasacco, in the mountainous Abruzzo region near Rome, after 428 years of service.

Protesting villagers took the unusual step after they had unsuccessfully appealed to the Order ...

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

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

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

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

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

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Fun Book Titles

Apologizing Made Simple
- by Thayer Thorry

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

Neck Exercises
- by G. Rarff

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

School Meals
- by R. E. Volting

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Good Question

If there are 52 weeks in a year, how many weeks are there in a light year?

Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

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

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

Wednesday February 6, 1861

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

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

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World Firsts

The first Guernsey Cattle Club organizes in New York City.

Wednesday February 7, 1877

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

Wednesday February 6, 1861

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

Friday February 9, 1540

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Wise Words

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

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
- African Proverb

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

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Good Question

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?

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

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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