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 Little Known Facts![Things you like to know you know... ]  *  Page 1  *  
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 *More children are born after new and full moons than at any other time.    
     *Only eight men were killed in the Battle of Lexington.                
*People who experience stress increase in pulse rates during a full/new moon
     *Connecticut & Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment.         
*There are over 300,000 miles of coastline on the planet.                   
     *If your sense of smell isn't working, you can't taste an onion.       
*There are appx a million 'quakes per year.Most so small they don't register
     *Ants stretch when they wake up, they also yawn quite like humans.     
*There are more than 55,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S.               
     *The U.S. government didn't start printing paper money until 1861.     
*Sugar Daddy candy was invented by R.Welch,founder of the John Birch Society
     *The population of Columbia DOUBLES every two years.                   
*The smallest member of the squirrel family is the chipmunk.                
     *Wooly bear caterpillars are said to be able to predict the weather    
*In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.      
     *Kate Hepburn was the 1st actress to win Best Actress Award 3 times.   
*A hippopotamus can run faster than a man. (but what about a woman ...)     
     *J.Edgar Hoover believed he could unseat FDR in 1936 & become President
*In 1500 B.C Egypt, a shaved head was considered the ultimate femininity.   
     *Nixon was the 1st U.S.President to visit all 50 states while in office
*READ THIS BACKWARDS:  He lived as a devil eh?   :>                         

                                                                              
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 WeIrD nEwS!!!!!!!!!  Stories that make your head curl!     *  Page 2  *  
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When the Minneapolis Star Tribune compared a list of licensed pilots in MN  
with state traffic records, they discovered that 41 licensed pilots had     
lost their Driver's Licenses because of alcohol abuse. 28 of the 41 all     
worked for Northwest Airlines.  (Might we suggest a train ride instead?)    
                                                                            
The Citizens Bank of Weston, W.VA, closed the account of one John E. Brody  
because he tracked mud on the bank's new carpet.                            
                                                                            
A 43 year old man was very upset by the way he was treated at his northeast 
England local health authority.  So he took a train to London, went to the  
House of Commons, and nailed his hand to the door with a 6" spike as a way  
of protest.  (Holey psycho-dermis Batman!)                                  
                                                                            
Dale Eller, 22, of Columbus, OH, walked into a police station and asked for 
an x-ray in order to locate his brain.  He showed police a hole in his skull
through which he had inserted three inches of wire trying to find his brain 
but had failed. He told them he had made the hole with a power drill. Police
took Eller to the hospital, where doctors removed a coat hanger wire from   
his head.  A hospital official said Eller was in good condition, however    
doctor's said he might have personality changes. (This stuff is scary!!!)   

                                                                              
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Quotes 'N' Notes!     ******** "The most trying fools are  *  Page 3  *  
Ĵ  the bright ones."        Ĵ
"The United States has never     -*- La Rochefoucauld     ****************
 lost a war or won a           Ĵ
 conference." -*- Will Rogers  *******  "Every journalist has a novel     
Ĵ   in him, which is an excellent    
 "Never trust a man who speaks well       place for it."                   
  of everybody." -*- Churton Collins              -*- Russell Lynes        
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 "Indiscriminate study "There are people who exaggerate so much that       
  bloats the mind."     they can't tell the truth without lying."          
      -*- D. Sutten       -*- H. W. Shaw                                   
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 "If you cannot get rid of the              "The best mirror is an         
  family skeleton, you may as well make      old friend." English proverb  
  it dance." -*- George Bernard Shaw     Ĵ
Ĵ "When I was younger I could   
"When no wind blows"Happiness is no laugh-   remember anything, whether it
   even the         ing matter."-*- Whatley  had happened or not."        
 weathervane has   Ĵ  -*- Mark Twain               
 character." -*-   "Hope is the poor man's Ĵ
 Stanislaw J. Lee   bread." -*- G. Herbert *******************************

                                                                  
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 Historical Bits!    This week:  President Curse            *  Page 4  *  
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 Seven presidents of the United States have fallen to the so-called         
 Presidential Curse. Those seven include, William Harrison (9th president)  
 Abraham Lincoln (16th), James Garfield (21st), William McKinley (25th),    
 Warren G. Harding (29th), Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd), and John F. Kennedy
 (35th).                                                                    
 For the last 120 years all presidents elected during a year ending in zero 
 has died while in office, Ronald Reagan breaking the "curse".              
 Harrison, elected in 1840, died of pneumonia on April 4, 1841.             
 Lincoln, elected in 1860, was assassinated during his second term in 1865. 
 Garfield, elected 1880, was shot by a deranged man as he boarded a train   
 July 1888 and died two months later from the wounds.                       
 McKinley, elected to his second term in 1900, was assassinated in 1901.    
 Harding, elected in 1920, died of pneumonia in 1923, but many believe he   
 in fact died from poisoning.                                               
 F.D. Roosevelt, elected to his third term in 1940, died of a cerebral      
 hemorrhage shortly after taking office.                                    
 J.F. Kennedy, elected in 1960, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, November 
 1963.                                                                      
 What are the conclusions drawn here?  None!  There is no reasonable answer 
 or rational explanation for these events.  Was it a curse or coincidence?  

                                     
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 Poetry * Drawer        Submissions gladly accepted         *  Page 5  *  
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                                 "Don't"                                    
                             (c) 1990 K.R.T.                                
                                                                            
Don't ask me where I'd like to go,      For I would go somewhere alone,    
I do not think you'd want to know.      And want to die inside a poem.     
Don't ask me what I want to do,         I am what I have fought against,   
It would not coincide with you.         And love is why my heart is tensed.
                                        Inside my mind are blackened walls,

Don't try to climb inside my mind,      And in my soul be empty halls.     
You wouldn't like what you would find.  These things I swear you mustn't do
Don't try to understand my soul,        For I might fall in love with you. 
I fear to say it isn't whole.          Ĵ
Don't do your best to win my heart,          "First Fig"                   
for love can tear a man apart.                                             
Don't tell me that you need me near,    My candle burns at both end;       
It only feeds my raging fear.           It will not last the night;        
Ĵ But ah, my foes, and oh my         
              "Candy"                        friends                     
  Candy is dandy,                        It gives a lovely light!          
  But liquor is quicker.  Ogden Nash          Edna St. Vincent Millay      

                                                                           
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 Science BITS!                                              *  Page 6  *  
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  Oil is the greatest pollutant facing the ocean's and rivers of our planet.
  The giant tankers, until recently, were the biggest culprits of oil spills
  throughout the world.                                                     
  An oil spill, left to itself will eventually disperse, breaking down to   
  harmless residues.  But until that time, it wreaks havoc with marine      
  life and wildlife.  The breakdown is speeded up by spraying the oil with  
  chemical dispersal agents, which are basically detergents.  These too have
  undesired effects on wildlife.                                            
  The attempt, and best method found so far, is to trap the oil slick.  The 
  clean-up crew attempts to surround the oil slick by a long,floating boom  
  of inflatable tubes.  Because oil floats on top of water, the boom stops  
  the spill from spreading.  The ends of the boom are attached to supply    
  ships.  These ships move slowly, trapping the oil and moving it through   
  the water to a location where another ship can begin pumping the oil      
  through a pipeline to a tanker.  The system is capable of collecting up   
  to 15,000 tons of oil-and-water mixture per day.                          
  Other items used are sorption skimmers and weir skimmers.  The sorption   
  skimmers use rollers, to treat the surface with chemicals that oil sticks 
  to and a drum then picks up the oil.  Weir skimmers are placed just below 
  the surface and forces the oil to flow over it and into a drum.           

                                                  
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 Headline Bits!!     True Headlines from a paper near U!    *  Page 7  *  
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  *SKI AREAS CLOSED DUE TO SNOW!                                            
                                 *DINOSAUR FACES GRAND JURY PROBE           
 *LACK OF WATER HURTS ICE FISHING                                           
                     *WISCONSIN BILL WOULD PERMIT BLIND TO HUNT DEER        
 *INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC GROUP ELECTS BIMBO AS ITS CHAIRMAN               
              *CITY INCREASING SPEED LIMIT TO SLOW DOWN DRIVERS             
                  *MAYOR SAYS D.C. IS SAFE EXCEPT FOR MURDERS               
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  *Picture of a bike with these words above it:  TRULY AFFORDABLE           
   EUROPEAN STYLING, POWER WINDOWS OPTIONAL!!                               
   * 1ST ANNUAL GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE!!!                               
    *   Would you believe this ad:  YOU CAN MAKE YOUR FUNERAL A PLEASANT    
                EXPERIENCE.  IT'S ALL A MATTER OF PLANNING.                 
*Father's Day ad: FATHER'S DAY AT OYSTER REEF.  COMPLIMENTARY GLASS OF      
                  CHAMPAGNE AND A HOOKER FOR DAD                            
  *And finally this:  The Hampton United Methodist Church will sponsor a    
   Harvest Supper on Saturday, October 1.  The menu for the evening will    
   be a traditional New England boiled sinner, rolls, homemade pie...       

                                                                     
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Strrrrrrrange Bits!     By: Jacquelin aka Gabriel (BE)      *  Page 8  *  
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 A pair of roller skates are removed from the shelf by unseen hands, then    
 pushed or skated across the floor.  Books are taken from the shelf and     
 left on the floor.  Someone taps you on the shoulder from behind, but      
 when you turn to look, no one is there.  A metal door is closed and someone
 begins banging on it from the other side, screaming, "Let me out, let me   
 out!"  When the door is rolled back, there is no one there.                
 These are some of the events occurring in the Toys 'R' Us in Sunnyvale     
 California.  The store has been investigated by psychics.  Many thought    
 the ghost would be that of the late John Murphy, a rancher who once        
 owned the land upon which the store is built.  But the ghost turned out    
 to be someone else.                                                        
 "I'm Johnny Johnson," he told psychic Sylvia Brown. When the historical    
 records were checked, there was a Johnny Johnson listed.  Information      
 available about him indicated he had died at nearly eighty years of age.   
 He'd come to California from Pennsylvania during the Gold Rush days.  He   
 fell in love with Beth Murphy, John Murphy's daughter, and was totally     
 devastated when she married a well-to-do citizen of Sunnyvale.  Later      
 Johnny was afflicted by encephalitis, leaving him mentally impaired. This  
 impairment caused him to do many strange things in the latter part of his  
 life, so much so he became known as 'Crazy Johnny'.                        

                                                                              
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 Johnny worked on the Murphy ranch as a ranch hand.  Though not very good   
 at his job because of the impairment, Mr. Murphy kept him anyway.  He      
 worked the ranch until his death in 1884.  He died when he accidentally    
 cut his leg while chopping wood and he bled to death.                      
 Johnny seems to be a lost, unhappy soul.  He searches for his one love,    
 Beth Murphy.  Some of what he does in the Toys 'R' Us store is mischievous 
 but nothing ever harmful or dangerous to employees or customers.           
 He appears to be in the store day and night.  For those of you with an     
 adventurous spirit, the store is open Monday through Saturday 9:30 to 9:30 
 and Sunday 9:30 to 6:00.  If you should go visit Johnny and have any       
 experiences with him, please let us know.                                  
 Queen Mary follow-up!  For those of you interested, KenX2 of Beyond        
 Eternity sent mail to me to inform me there was a nice article about the   
 hauntings of the Queen Mary in February 17th, Sunday Los Angeles Times     
 Calendar section.                                                          
  Next week, unless someone requests a specific region of the country they  
  would like covered, we will discuss the Whaley House.  Whaley House       
  is one of the best known haunted houses in Southern California.  Besides  
  the hauntings (and yes there is more than one ghost) there is a death     
  cloaked in mystery.  And much, much more.  Have a spirited week!          


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