Archive for November, 2003
Saturday, November 8th, 2003
How To Quit Smoking
Japan’s lingerie maker Triumph International campaign girl Shinobu Ikehata(R) displays the ‘Anti-Smoking Bra’ which emits a mysterious fragrance designed to kill the desire to smoke(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
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Saturday, November 8th, 2003
Great Photograph!
Prayerful A Muslim girl reads from the Quran at her home in a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan, as she waits for the evening Ramadan meal of Iftar on Nov. 2. Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset during the holy month of Ramadan.
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Friday, November 7th, 2003
This Made Me Laugh
OPENLY EPISCOPAL MAN JOINS VILLAGE PEOPLE Controversy Threatens to Tear Disco Band Asunder For the first time in their three decades of existence, the disco band The Village People have inducted an openly Episcopal man, igniting a controversy that threatens to tear the fabled group asunder. >Holding a press conference in New York City today, […]
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Friday, November 7th, 2003
Santa, We Hardly Knew Ye
Follow That Claus! By Seth Madej That Santa Claus dude is everywhere. Sitting in malls, ringing bells on street corners, selling soda on TV… You’d think he was just about the best known guy on Earth. But actually, in most of the rest of the world Santa ain’t all that. In fact, in most places […]
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Friday, November 7th, 2003
Mom Didn’t Raise Me …
… to be a “Fllibuster.” I had no idea of this meaning to the word: 3. military military adventurer: somebody who is a mercenary or irregular in a revolutionary army of a foreign country 2. intransitive verb military be a military adventurer abroad: to serve as a mercenary or irregular in a revolutionary army of […]
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2003
Nice Quote
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. - George Bernard Shaw
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Monday, November 3rd, 2003
Consecration 3
ACNS 3659 | USA | 3 NOVEMBER 2003 Mixed feelings as first openly gay Anglican bishop is consecrated Over 3,000 people, including 54 bishops and ecumenical guests, gathered today at the Whittemore Center - part of the University of New Hampshire, Durham - to celebrate one of the most controversial and momentous occasions in the […]
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Monday, November 3rd, 2003
Consecration 2
ACNS 3658 | LAMBETH PALACE | 3 NOVEMBER 2003 Statement from the Archbishop of Canterbury following the consecration of Canon Gene Robinson as Bishop-coadjutor of New Hampshire Please note: Strict Embargo to 0030 hrs Monday 3rd November 2003 [ACNS Source: Lambeth Palace] The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has issued a statement following the […]
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Monday, November 3rd, 2003
Bishop Robinson Consecrated
11-01-2003 Amid cheers and protests, Robinson consecrated in Diocese of New Hampshire by James Solheim [Episcopal News Service] The Diocese of New Hampshire-and the Episcopal Church-has a new bishop. The Rev. Gene Robinson was consecrated Sunday afternoon, November 2, in a three-hour service at the Whittemore Center at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.