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Myrtle was a community novelty. Her odd ways did not place her on top of community invitation lists for weddings and social events. Yet she somehow knew when events were occurring and would show up in her very plain dress and with a brown bag...
Posted at 21:26h
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In July of 2003 a Viennese team of nine surgeons led by Rolf Ewers replaced a diseased tongue with a tongue from a brain-dead donor. The recipient can talk and eat but has no sense of taste. It would be fun to think the man...
Posted at 16:54h
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Two separate teams of astronomers, one in Virginia and one in France, have recently discovered our galaxy is gobbling up a neighboring galaxy. Every 750 million years, the oval orbit of our neighbor brings it close enough for our gravitation to capture some suns. I...
Posted at 23:35h
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The Art of War written by Sun-Tzu is the oldest military treatise in the world. It doesn’t matter that it was written 2000 years ago. His ideas are classic and very much worth the study of any general who wishes to win a war. He...
Posted at 13:58h
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I have to tell you I really messed up. This was a major league mistake. After I explain you will understand what an idiot I have been. It all started about three years ago. My wife came home one afternoon from the beauty parlor with...
Posted at 19:54h
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Is there anyone over the age three in this country that doesn’t know seatbelts save lives? So why is it a police cruiser in Massachusetts that crashed while pursuing a runner has two distinct head smash marks on the inside of the windshield? Could it...
Posted at 13:19h
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General George Washington never seriously wanted to engage the better armed British army in direct combat because he knew all he needed to do to win was to last longer than General Howe. He knew an army a long way from home across an ocean...
Posted at 19:45h
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Hadrian, the Roman Emperor, was an incredible man committed to leaving the world a better place via the resources he had at his command. Instead of traveling the empire with a host of soldiers taking whatever they could, he traveled with an entourage of engineers...
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While sitting by a Wal-mart I watched seagulls clean the parking lot. They are most likely the same gulls that are always there. They have a good thing going. People are trashy so there are ample French fries and other pieces of food from the...
Posted at 22:53h
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It is an old chest of drawers. I am absolutely sure it is older than dirt. This evening the top drawer came out and refused to go back. Is it not logical to assume if something unchangeably solid came out of an unchangeable hole it...