*The Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. --1 Thessalonians 4
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The tough businessman was feeling very ill and went to the doctor. The doc examined him and backed away, saying, "I'm sorry to tell you this, but you have an advanced case of highly infectious rabies. You must have had it for some time. It will almost certainly be fatal." "Could you give me a pen and paper?" said the businessman. "Do you want to write your will?" "No, I want to make a list of all the people I want to bite."
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August, 1896 Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie, members of the Tagish First Nations people, and George Carmack found gold in the Yukon, Canada, starting what became known as the Klondike Gold Rush. The three men were prospecting in Rabbit Creek (which they renamed Bonanza), a tributary of the Klondike River, when they made their discovery.
Over 100,000 people stampeded to the Yukon in search of gold.
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The camera on board the Mars Global Surveyor has provided evidence that strong martian winds move large sand dunes on the planet's surface. The heaviest damage appears to have been done to the "Martian Acres" mobile home park.
Howdy recently sent ten different puns to the UNC school newspaper, in the hope that at least one of the puns would make some ot the students laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.