Contributed by Ken Henson on Oct 31, 2012
                
                
                
                    THE SYMBOL OF THE OLIVE
The disciples went into the Olive grove. Many think there was the Olive Press there. The purpose of the Olive Press is to crush the olive, remove the oil and the oil was used for various purposes. Even today we get much of the oil from the Mediterranean area, the Middle
                    
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                    During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, there was a shortage of currency in the British Empire. Representatives carefully searched the nation in hopes of finding silver to meet the emergency. After one month, the committee returned with its report. "We have searched the Empire in vain seeking to find
                    
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                    During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, there was a shortage of currency in the British Empire.  Representatives carefully searched the nation in hopes of finding silver to meet the emergency.  After one month, the committee returned with its report.  “We have searched the empire in vain seeking to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Ill:  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior, was a physian. As such he was very interested in the use of ether.  (Ether was used to put people to sleep in the 19th century.) In order to know how his patients felt under its influence, he once had a dose administered to himself. 
-As he was going under, in a
                    
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                    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Nov 16, 2006
                
                
                
                    Sacrifice is what Milton Olive III was all about! As a Pfc. in the Vietnam War, he and four other soldiers were moving through a Vietnam jungle together when a grenade was thrown into their midst. Pfc. Olive saw the grenade, and then saved the lives of his fellow soldiers at the sacrifice of his
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Nov 15, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was a member of the U.S. Supreme Court for 30 years. At one point in his life, Justice Holmes explained his choice of a career by saying: "I might have entered the ministry if certain clergymen I knew had not looked and acted so much like undertakers." So where is the
                    
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                    Contributed by Larry Elder on Jul 12, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest
man present.
"Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you’d feel rather small
among us big fellows."
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                    Contributed by Richard Arnold on Dec 7, 2004
                
                
                
                    Private First Class Milton L. Olive III was born November 7, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois.  He died on October 22, 1966, just shy of his 20th birthday in Phu Cuong, Vietnam.  The citation for his Medal of Honor reads as follows:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above
                    
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                    Contributed by Tony Abram on Nov 16, 2007
                
                
                
                    Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving:  To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A true story is told from the time of Oliver Cromwell in England. A young soldier had been tried in military court and sentenced to death. He was to be shot at the "ringing of the curfew bell." His fiancee climbed up into the bell tower. several hours before curfew time and tied herself to bell’s
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Oct 18, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Sarah Winchester, widow of Oliver Winchester, who invented the famed Winchester Rifle that won the West worried about the departed soul of her husband because of all the Indians that his rifle was responsible for sending on to the next life.  She also feared for her own soul and the souls of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Dean Morgan on Sep 10, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    •In 1654, one vote gave Oliver Cromwell control of England;
•In 1649, one vote caused Charles I of England to be executed;
•In 1776, one vote gave America the English language instead of German;
•In 1839, one vote elected Marcus Morton governor of Massachusetts;
•In 1845, one vote brought Texas
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Ball on May 19, 2008
                
                
                
                    Col. Oliver North, "Col. Ollie" to many who have served under him, tells of a situation when we first went into Iraq.  There were enemies shooting at each other from across a large field.  That was a no-man’s land.  And in the middle of that field was a very injured Iraqi man.
A corpsman crawled
                    
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