Archive for December, 2003

Wednesday, December 31st, 2003

Christmas XIV

Ah, Much Better: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!

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Wednesday, December 31st, 2003

Christmas VIII

The Seventh Day of Christmas, The Feast of St. Sylvester, and Happy New Year??? Coast Guard officer Brett Patterson, of Jacksonville, Fla., holds a M-240 machine gun aboard a helicopter during a patrol around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003. The homeland security patrol flights are responses to Mayor […]

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Sunday, December 28th, 2003

Merry Christmas XII

The 4th Day of Christmas is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, when Herod tried to wipe out Jesus by slaughtering all the young kids around Bethlehem.

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Saturday, December 27th, 2003

Merry Christmas XI

This day, the 3rd Day of Christmas, is the Feast Day of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist, so is my day, so to speak.

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Saturday, December 27th, 2003

I Like These Photos, Too

Lightning flashes over hotels and casinos on The Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, as a storm rolls through the Las Vegas Valley

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Saturday, December 27th, 2003

Merry Christmas X

ACNS 3722 | ANGLICAN COMMUNION | 27 DECEMBER 2003 ANGLICAN VOICES AT CHRISTMAS “Our God is a God that surprises us,” said Archbishop Rowan Williams, as he addressed over 2500 in a shopping centre in Canterbury on Christmas Eve, escorted through the streets by the choir and clergy of St Stephen’s Parish, the Bishop in […]

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Friday, December 26th, 2003

Merry Christmas IX

What is it with Christmas and nudity this year???: Two members of Berlin’s ice swimming club ‘Berliner Seehunde’ (Berlin seals) take a dip in the frozen water of the Oranke lake (Orankesee) December 25, 2003. Several members of the swimming club met on Thursday for their traditional weekly ice swimming meeting. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

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Friday, December 26th, 2003

Merry Christmas VIII

Nude Man Pulled From Chimney on Christmas Fri Dec 26,10:09 AM ET Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo! MINNEAPOLIS - A naked man got stuck in the chimney of a bookstore early Christmas morning. Don’t worry, it wasn’t Santa Claus. The 34-year-old man was treated Thursday for bruises and abrasions at Hennepin County […]

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Friday, December 26th, 2003

Merry Christmas VII

For the Second Day of Christmas, also known as the Feast of Stephen, Deacon and Martyr, and Boxing Day: French Thieves Drive Victim Home for Christmas Eve Fri Dec 26, 8:05 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! PARIS (Reuters) - A pair of thieves who seized a van loaded with pricey […]

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Thursday, December 25th, 2003

Merry Christmas VI

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