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Tuesday May 25, 2004

Even in death Irish comic genius Spike Milligan managed to have the last laugh. Two years after his death at his home in Sussex, England, the creator of "The Goon Show" has finally got the epitaph he wanted.

A headstone bearing the words "I told you I was ill" has been erected above his grave at St. Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex. Sadly for more than two years after his death at the ...

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Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.

Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

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

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Sign seen at a Hair Salon: We curl up and dye for you.

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Fun Book Titles

Apologizing Made Simple
- by Thayer Thorry

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

All Aboard!
- by Abel Seamann

Falling from a Window
- by Eileen Dowt

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

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Do steam rollers really roll steam?

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?

How come wrong numbers are never busy?

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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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The first Guernsey Cattle Club organizes in New York City.

Wednesday February 7, 1877

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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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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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It takes a village to raise a child.
- 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

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
- African Proverb

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World Firsts

The 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off piloted by Bert Hinkler.

Tuesday February 7, 1928

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Autherine Lucy, the 1st black student admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled.

Tuesday February 7, 1956

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

Tuesday February 7, 1984

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Wise Words

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

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

It takes a village to raise a child.
- African Proverb

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Good Question

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

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?

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