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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Voters in the northwestern German town of Hilgermissen rejected the local council’s plan to name the streets of the city. The referendum failed by a margin of 60 percent to 40 percent. The council had proposed the change to make it easier to find their way around the municipality. 2200 people in the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Authorities in Switzerland have announced plans to end the nation’s emergency stockpiling of coffee which has been in place for decades. Swiss land currently requires importers, roasters, and retailers to store bags of coffee beans in case of emergency. The system of emergency reserves was established…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Bruce Lorenz is believed to the North Dakota’s oldest mayor, and has been reelected to another term by a unanimous vote. Lorenz is 86 years old, and estimates that he has been mayor of the small town of Ruso for about 30 years. He admitted that he forgot about Election Day until his daughter reminded…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Dull, Scotland and Boring, Oregon are two communities united by unexciting names, have now joined with a third community Bland Shire, Australia as sister communities. Dull and Boring became sister communities in 2012 and then hosted the mayor of the region of Bland Shire to celebrate the third member…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Air Force veteran Bruce Rideout, 79, received a check from the U.S. Treasury. He doesn’t know why he received it and isn’t sure what to do with it. He doesn’t want to cash it, not because he is afraid that at some point the government will want it back, but because it is for only 2 cents. He has decided…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 9 views
Published January 03, 2013 | Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Call her the girl with no name. A 15-year-old is suing the Icelandic state for the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother. The problem? Blaer, which means "light breeze" in Icelandic, is not on a list approved by the…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 16 views
By John Blake, CNN President Barack Obama was sharing a pulpit one day with a conservative Christian leader when a revealing exchange took place. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a conservative Christian who has taken public stands against abortion and same-sex marriage, had joined Obama for an AIDS summit.…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 31 views
By Dr. Keith Ablow Published January 08, 2013 FoxNews.com A new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has accumulated data for the past 47 years from 9 million young adults, reveals that college students are more likely than ever to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, even though…
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Angela Boneva is living in limbo. For years she, and the U.S. government, thought the Bulgarian-born 34-year-old was an American citizen. But, when she went to renew her passport in 2003, the State Department reportedly told her something terribly different. Boneva's father was born in Indiana, and the…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 11 views
Shut Up and Fish Old Pete had a knack for catching fish. Every weekend Old Pete went fishing and returned with dozens of fish. Nobody knew how he did it. When other fishermen were unable to land more than three or four, Old Pete always came back with stringer after stringer of freshly caught fish. Curious,…
David Pereira • Illustration • • 5 views
By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer – June 20, 2009 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Saturday that current financial rules exploit consumers and he put critics of his proposed overhaul on notice: "While I'm not spoiling for a fight, I'm ready for one." Obama…
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The Waco Tribune-Herald Series, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/March 3, 1993 By Mark England and Darlene McCormick /On Saturday, the Waco Tribune-Herald published the first story of an indepth series exposing the Branch Davidians and their leader, Vernon Howell. The series has become part of the unfolding…
Ian Forest-Jones • Illustration • • 2 views
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and…
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A little boy wanted $100.00 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.00. When the postal authorities received the letter to God, they decided to send it to the President. The president was so amused that he instructed his secretary…