News Thats Used

Friday February 3, 2017

According to a hospital in Spain, a woman gave birth to twins at the age of 64. A News release from Hospital Recoletas Burgos, a hospital in Burgos, Spain, the sexagenarian gave birth via C-section to a boy and a girl, and all three patients are in perfect health.

The woman, who is being identified by her initials, had undergone IVF treatment in the United States before returning to Spain.

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About twenty-five percent of the population will sneeze when they are exposed to light.

Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.

Quips

Don't let worry kill you. Let the Church help.

Filed Under: Church Notices

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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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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Fun Book Titles

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

The Barber of Seville
- by Aaron Floor

Apologizing Made Simple
- by Thayer Thorry

Neck Exercises
- by G. Rarff

How to Feed Elephants
- by P. Nutts

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Good Question

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

How come wrong numbers are never busy?

Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

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World Firsts

France recognizes the United States of America and signs a treaty of aid in Paris; it's the 1st U.S. treaty.

Friday February 6, 1778

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

Tuesday February 7, 1984

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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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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

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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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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