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Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:46 pm

Madonna is having trouble finding a live-in nanny for her new,adopted son,says Britain's Mail on Sunday. The singer adopted 15-month -old David Banda last october in Malawi,and has been seeking child-care help ever since.So far,however,every candidate has declined the postion after hearing the singer's requirements--among them that the nanny must not ever watch television,even in her own room. Madonna doesn't believe in TV,says a source.Whoever gets the job has also been warned they will be working flat-out for the first three months and won't be allowed any visitors.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:13 pm

Marcella Gruelle of Indianapolis created the Raggedy Ann doll in 1914.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:25 pm

Ancient Egyptians used molted cobra skins as condoms.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:33 am

William Howard Taft was the largest president of the United States. He weighed 280 pounds.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:32 pm

An Australian woman is recovering in the hospital after swallowing her spoon in a restauant.The 26-year-old Sydney resident,who can not be named for reasons of medical confidentiality, was apparently sent into a fit of giggles by an amusing remark from her dinner companion. Next thing she knew,she had swallowed her spoon. Surgeon Dr. Bernard Beldholm says the spoon was so deeply lodged that he considered going in surgically,but was eventually able to remove it "with great difficulty" through 90 minutes of nonsurgical manipulation.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:20 pm

An early draft of the Declaration of Independence included a line by Benjamin Franklin inviting King George to "kisse our collective arse."

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:44 am

A tree must be at least ten feet high. A shrub is less than ten feet high.

4sporterEHS · Post by **4sporterEHS** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:48 am

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:13 pm

Albert Beveridge won the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 1920, for The Life of John Marshall. In 1934 Harold Urey won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of deuterium. Ernie Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in foreign Correspondence in 1944. Paul Samuelson won the Nobel Prize in economics, 1970.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:48 pm

Long jumper DeHart Hubbard was the first African American to earn an Olympic Gold Medal. The award occurred during the 1924 Olympics games held in Paris. He set the record for long jumping.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:27 pm

Deep below the earth in Southern Indiana is a sea of limestone that is one of the richest deposits of top-quality limestone found anywhere on earth. New York City's Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center as well as the Pentagon, the U.S. Treasury, a dozen other government buildings in Washington D.C. as well as 14 state capitols around the nation are built from this sturdy, beautiful Indiana limestone.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:42 am

Every year in the fall, Niagara Falls is shut down for maintenance for 24 hours. The flow is diverted using a massive series of pipes and spigots built for this purpose in 1837.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:09 pm

Salma Hayek might have died a few hours before last week's Golden Globes ceremony if not for her dog,Diva.Hayek was at home in California,getting ready for the big night,when she developed a headache and decided to lie down."Diva woke me up by grabbing my sleeve in her mouth and trying to pull me out of the house," Hayek says."Then I realized the gas was on!" Hayek rushed out of the fume-filled house. Several hours later,her TV show received two awards,

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:02 pm

A Portuguese man has left his entire estate to 70 people picked randomly from the phone book.Luis da Camara,42,had no family.The people whose names he picked each received about $12,000 in cash.At first I thought it was a hoax, said Helena Suares,a 76-year-old from Lisbon. But I need the money and I am very grateful to him.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:06 pm

The radio was invented by a Kentuckian named Nathan B. Stubblefield of Murray in 1892. It was three years before Marconi made his claim to the invention.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:32 am

A Detroit man has been jailed for breaking into department stores to satisfy his fetish for female mannequins.Ronald Dotson,39,has now been convicted seven times in 13-years for mannequin theft,most recently in October,when police caught him near a freshly smashed storefront windows,advancing on a plastic woman dressed as a French maid.Dotson,who is unemployed and lives with his parents,admits a powerful sexual attraction to the dummies.His lawyer told the judge that Dotson lacks social skills,but would never hurt anybody.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:29 pm

A ball of twine in Cawker City, Kansas measures over 38' in circumference and weighs more than 16,750 pounds and is still growing.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:24 am

The windiest place on earth is in the Antartic region.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:01 pm

Teri Hatcher is one of a growing number of A-list actresses who keep their skin supple by bathing in wine,says the London Dailey telegraph. The "vinotherapy" approach to skin care was pioneered in 1993 by a Joseph Vercauterem of-predictably Bordeaux University in France, and is based on the notion that grapes are rich in antioxidants. Experts recommend a single glass of wine,poured directly into the bath water."She would never drink it,"says a source close to Hatcher."But she claims bathing in it keeps her skin soft."

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:33 pm

Dodge City is the windiest city in the United States.