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“A father and son were raking leaves when they noticed something darting in and out of the piles. After careful effort they uncovered a chameleon . It was difficult to see among the brown leaves. It had blended with them by turning brown, too. After catching the little creature, they put it in a
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Contributed by Steven Dow on Jul 9, 2002
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Unamuno, the Spanish philosopher, tells about the Roman aqueduct a Segovia, in his native Spain. It was built in 109 A.D. For eighteen hundred years, it carried cool water from the mountains to the hot and thirsty city. Nearly sixty generations of men drank from its flow.
Then came another
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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Paul
Paul, the apostle, who before was called Saul, after his great travail and unspeakable labors in promoting the Gospel of Christ, suffered also in this first persecution under Nero. Abdias, declareth that under his execution Nero sent two of his esquires, Ferega and Parthemius, to bring him
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
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YANKEE HONESTY III: Dennis Cleary, a representative in the Connecticut General Assembly, is running for his seventh term, but he’s running without the support of his own family. Relatives have taken out a newspaper ad noting "We are tired of Dennis ... Are you?" Family spokesman Jude Cleary says
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Feb 7, 2003
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A man distributed tracts for many years on a street corner. Finally, seeing no visible results, he gave up. When he returned to the same spot two years later, he saw another individual handing out Gospel leaflets as he had done. Striking up a conversation, he discovered that the man had become a
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Just before World War II in the town of Itasca, Texas, a school fire took the lives of 263 children. There was scarcely a family in town that was not touched by this horrifying tragedy. After the war, the town built a new school, which featured what was called "the finest sprinkler system in the
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by W F on Sep 15, 2004
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I recently had to clean up some brickwork at home. New bricks had been laid and I had to clean off the excess cement. So I bought a litre of hydrochloric acid and mixed it at about ½ litre to a bucket of water. This was just the right amount to keep the acid effective in cleaning the brickwork
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Contributed by Tony Searles on Nov 24, 2006
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The May 1984 National Geographic showed, through color photos and drawings, the swift and terrible destruction that wiped out the Roman Cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79.
The explosion of Mount Vesuvius was so sudden, the residents were killed while in their normal routines of life: men
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A stock boy at a grocery store was asked by an elderly lady, “Can I buy half a head of lettuce?” He walked back to the manager’s office, not realizing that the lady followed him. He said to the manger, “You’re not going to believe this, but there’s an old bag out there who wants to buy half a head
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 27, 2008
Twelve-time award winner, Philip Yancey writes in Rumors of Another World:
"Those who believe only in the visible world have a single proving ground of worth, and for this reason they celebrate beauty, success, wealth, talent and the values on prominent display at the magazine rack. The winners
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Contributed by Tyler Edwards on Sep 22, 2009
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REVELATION AT THE FRONT DOOR
A new pastor was visiting the homes of some of the people in his congregation. He came to one house and he knocked but there was no answer. He could see the lights were on and it seemed very obvious that someone was home, so he knocked again. When there was no
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