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| Avast!
At one point in August 1971, the Pittsburgh Pirates became the first professional baseball team to field nine players who were either black or Latino. Coincidentally, this was the same year they won the World Series.
| Sports Facts |
| Superior Candidates
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
| Philosophy |
| Lot's Guests
Genesis 19:1-3
1-2 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house ...
| Bible |
| Best Dancer
Boy: Which Halloween creature is the best dancer?
Girl: I don’t know.
Boy: The Boogie Man!
| Humor |
| October 30th, 2001
On this day in 2001, Michael Jordan returned to the NBA with the Washington Wizards after a 3 1/2 year retirement. Despite His Airness, the Wizards lost 93-91 to the New York Knicks.
| Sports Facts |
| Education
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
-- John F. Kennedy
| Philosophy |
| Foolish Pleasure, Deserved Rewards
Proverbs 10:23-24
23 A foolish person finds pleasure in doing evil things. But a man who has understanding takes delight in wisdom.
24 What sinners are afraid of will catch up with them. But those who do right will get what they want.
| Bible |
| Moral of the Story
On Halloween, a photographer goes to a haunted castle determined to get a picture of a ghost. To his surprise, the ghost he encounters turns out to be friendly and poses for a snapshot. The happy photographer dashes to his studio and uploads his photos to ...
| Humor |
| Long Glide
Hang gliding records are sanctioned and the world record(s) for "free distance" is held by Manfred Ruhmer with 700.6 km (435.3 mi) in 2001 and Michael Barber flew a distance of 704 km (437 mi) on June 19, 2002 in Zapata Texas.
| Sports Facts |
| Dreams
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
-- Tom Clancy, in a Commencement address at ...
| Philosophy |
| Tongues and Trouble
Proverbs 10:19-20
19 Those who talk a lot are likely to sin. But those who control their tongues are wise.
20 The tongues of those who do right are like fine silver.
| Bible |
| Witching Hour
It was Halloween and a blonde teenager had dressed herself up as Barbie to go trick-or-treating.
The blonde's friend asked, "I wonder what time it is?"
"I know it can't be 12 o'clock yet," the blonde answered. "I am supposed to be home at midnight and ...
| Humor |
| Platform Diving
Platform diving (also called high diving) is usually done from a tower 10 m (32 ft 10 in.) high that is not flexible and that projects nearly five feet (1.5 m) over the water. The height of the tower permits more involved acrobatics during descent; it also ...
| Sports Facts |
| Mary Meets Elizabeth
Luke 1:39-45
39-40 At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth.
41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled ...
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| The Answer
Luke 1:36-38
36 Gabriel: "Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For no word from God will ever fail.”
38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. ...
| Philosophy |
| Half the Work
A liberal New Yorker needed to make some plumbing repairs and, being more industrious than most, went to a hardware store and started flipping through a home improvement book.
Seeing this, an employee said to him, "That book will do half the job for you."
"Great!" ...
| Humor |
| Springboard Diving
Springboard diving is done from a flexible plank made of aluminum or steel and measuring 16 ft (4.9 m) long by 20 in. (51 cm) wide. It extends horizontally over the water at a height of 1 m (about 3 ft 3 in.) or 3 m (about 9 ft 10 in.). The flexibility of ...
| Sports Facts |
| How Will This Be?
Luke 1:34-35
34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
35 The angel Gabriel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of ...
| Bible |
| The Safeguard of Liberty
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.
| Philosophy |
| Longhorn Joke
There was a group of Texas college students on a tour bus. Eventually an Aggie from Texas A&M asked if he could tell the rest of them a Longhorn joke without offending anyone.
Immediately a woman in the back of the bus said, "No, don't do that. I'm a student ...
| Humor |
| Triple Backflip
The gymnast that first did a triple backflip during a gymnastic floor exercise was Valery Liukin. This is an insanely impossible move to do and is worth 4 tenths of a point bonus for Olympians.
| Sports Facts |
| On Looking Backward
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach ...
| Philosophy |
| Jesus Will Be Great
Luke 1:32-33
Gabriel: "Jesus will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
| Bible |
| The French Cuckold
Once there was a Frenchman who fancied himself a great lover of women. Naturally he was shocked to get home to find his wife in bed with another man. Seeing them, the husband got so angry that he took a gun and pointed it to his own head.
"NO! Don't do ...
| Humor |
| Destiny
Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about will come true. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, ...
| Philosophy |