So You Think You Know Everything

So You think you Know everything?  

 

Just who researches this stuff anyway?

 

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 

A snail can sleep for three years.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.  I know some people like that also.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

 February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have afull moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would  never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

 Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

 "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. Or in my case, left index finger.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak,' ‘radar’ and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." 

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

‘Typewriter’ is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard  

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance 

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

Marriage Matters

TO READ: 1 Corinthians 7:1-16

Marriage Matters

Because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife,and each woman should have her own husband. . . . I wish everyone could get along without marrying, just as I do. But we are not all the same. God gives some the gift of marriage, and to others he gives the gift of singleness.

1 Corinthians 7:2, 7

Marriage is a divine idea. Right from the beginning of creation, God ordained that a man and a woman should devote themselves to each other in a mutually loving, caring, marital relationship. He made it clear that marriage was to be a fundamental building block of society.

But in Corinthian society, as in our modern societies, there were some people who, for a variety of reasons, did not wish to be married. They glorified the unmarried state, and they believed that it was a superior lifestyle. They asked for Paul’s opinion, and he agreed: “Yes, it is good to live a celibate life” (1 Cor. 7:1). Paul went even further and said, “I wish everyone could get along without marrying, just as I do” (7:7). But having said that, he stopped far short of advocating that being single was morally superior to being married. On the contrary, he insisted, “God gives some the gift of marriage, and to others he gives the gift of singleness” (7:7). To those who have the gift of being married, Paul says, “Each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband” (7:2).

The downside of singleness, from Paul’s point of view, was that if natural sexual desires were not carefully controlled, single people—particularly those living in the sexually charged environment of Corinth—would be vulnerable to the blandishments of illicit sexual activity. Rather than allow that to happen, they should marry and enjoy mutually satisfying sexual relations.

But marriage is not without its difficulties either. Marriage is particularly difficult when one of the partners becomes a Christian subsequent to the marriage. Rather than working through the difficult tensions that such a situation created, people in Corinth were giving up on their marriages and settling for divorce. Christians who were contemplating taking this way out of difficult marriages were overlooking, or ignoring, the fact that a Christian marriage partner “brings holiness to” her or his marriage, and that the children of such a marriage live under a “godly influence” (7:14).

The Christian, bearing all this in mind, should not divorce. On the other hand, if the unbeliever decides to leave the marriage, the Christian partner “is not required to stay” with that person (7:15).

In marriage matters, modern western society bears striking similarities to ancient Greco-Roman society. So it is not too difficult to make an application of Paul’s teachings and of Christ’s specific commands.

Marriage is good, and in special circumstances, singleness is a blessing. But marriage is not easy. In certain limited circumstances divorce is permissible, but it also creates major problems. So honor marriage, respect singleness, and avoid divorce. And remember, “God wants his children to live in peace” (7:15).

Prayer:

Heavenly Father, I Thank You for the gift of marriage, and for the wonderful wife that You blessed me with. It is my prayer that You would open the hearts of all to the sanctity and blessings of Holy Matrimony.

I pray for this in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ!

Amen an Amen

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 7: 1-16

1 Corinthians 7

¹ Now concerning the things whereof all of you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

³ Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

⁴ The wife has not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power of his own body, but the wife.

⁵ Defraud all of you not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that all of you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

⁶ But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

⁷ For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

⁸ I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

⁹ But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

¹⁰ And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

¹¹ But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

¹² But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

¹³ And the woman which has an husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

¹⁵ But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.

¹⁶ For what know you, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how know you, O man, whether you shall save your wife?O READ: 1 Corinthians 7:1-16

Marriage Matters

Because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife,and each woman should have her own husband. . . . I wish everyone could get along without marrying, just as I do. But we are not all the same. God gives some the gift of marriage, and to others he gives the gift of singleness.

1 Corinthians 7:2, 7

Marriage is a divine idea. Right from the beginning of creation, God ordained that a man and a woman should devote themselves to each other in a mutually loving, caring, marital relationship. He made it clear that marriage was to be a fundamental building block of society.

But in Corinthian society, as in our modern societies, there were some people who, for a variety of reasons, did not wish to be married. They glorified the unmarried state, and they believed that it was a superior lifestyle. They asked for Paul’s opinion, and he agreed: “Yes, it is good to live a celibate life” (1 Cor. 7:1). Paul went even further and said, “I wish everyone could get along without marrying, just as I do” (7:7). But having said that, he stopped far short of advocating that being single was morally superior to being married. On the contrary, he insisted, “God gives some the gift of marriage, and to others he gives the gift of singleness” (7:7). To those who have the gift of being married, Paul says, “Each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband” (7:2).

The downside of singleness, from Paul’s point of view, was that if natural sexual desires were not carefully controlled, single people—particularly those living in the sexually charged environment of Corinth—would be vulnerable to the blandishments of illicit sexual activity. Rather than allow that to happen, they should marry and enjoy mutually satisfying sexual relations.

But marriage is not without its difficulties either. Marriage is particularly difficult when one of the partners becomes a Christian subsequent to the marriage. Rather than working through the difficult tensions that such a situation created, people in Corinth were giving up on their marriages and settling for divorce. Christians who were contemplating taking this way out of difficult marriages were overlooking, or ignoring, the fact that a Christian marriage partner “brings holiness to” her or his marriage, and that the children of such a marriage live under a “godly influence” (7:14).

The Christian, bearing all this in mind, should not divorce. On the other hand, if the unbeliever decides to leave the marriage, the Christian partner “is not required to stay” with that person (7:15).

In marriage matters, modern western society bears striking similarities to ancient Greco-Roman society. So it is not too difficult to make an application of Paul’s teachings and of Christ’s specific commands.

Marriage is good, and in special circumstances, singleness is a blessing. But marriage is not easy. In certain limited circumstances divorce is permissible, but it also creates major problems. So honor marriage, respect singleness, and avoid divorce. And remember, “God wants his children to live in peace” (7:15).

Prayer:

Heavenly Father, I Thank You for the gift of marriage, and for the wonderful wife that You blessed me with. It is my prayer that You would open the hearts of all to the sanctity and blessings of Holy Matrimony.

I pray for this in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ!

Amen an Amen

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 7: 1-16

1 Corinthians 7

¹ Now concerning the things whereof all of you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

³ Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

⁴ The wife has not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power of his own body, but the wife.

⁵ Defraud all of you not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that all of you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

⁶ But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

⁷ For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

⁸ I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

⁹ But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

¹⁰ And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

¹¹ But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

¹² But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

¹³ And the woman which has an husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

¹⁵ But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.

¹⁶ For what know you, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how know you, O man, whether you shall save your wife?

German Gestapo Formed April 26, 1933

Gestapo

Gestapo

Geheime Staatspolizei
The Gestapo was administered by officers of the SS.
Plainclothes Gestapo agents during the White Busesoperations in 1945.
Agency overview
Formed	26 April 1933
Preceding agency	Prussian Secret Police Founded 1851.
Dissolved	8 May 1945
Type	Secret Police
Jurisdiction	Nazi Germany Occupied Europe
Headquarters	Prinz-Albrecht-Straße, Berlin 52°30′26″N 13°22′57″E
Employees	32,000 c.1944[1]
Ministers responsible	Hermann Göring 1933–1934, Minister President of Prussia Wilhelm Frick 1936–1943 (nominal authority), Interior Minister Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Chef der Deutschen Polizei, 1936–1945; Interior Minister, 1943–1945
Agency executives	Rudolf Diels 1933–1934, Commander, Prussian Secret Police Office SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, Director, Gestapo, 1934–1936; Director, SiPo, 1936–1939; Director, RSHA 1939–1942 SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller, Chief of Operations, Gestapo, 1936–1939; Director, Gestapo (RSHA Amt IV), 1939–1945
Parent agency	Allgemeine SS RSHA Sicherheitspolizei

The Gestapo (German pronunciation: [ɡeˈstaːpo, ɡəˈʃtaːpo]), abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, or the Secret State Police^[2][3]was the official secret police of Nazi Germanyand German-occupied Europe.

The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the executive and the judicial branches into one power. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of SS national leader Heinrich Himmler, who in 1936 was appointed Chief of German Police (Chef der Deutschen Polizei) by Hitler. In 1936, Himmler made it a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) ("Security Police"). Then from 27 September 1939 forward, it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt(RSHA) ("Reich Main Security Office") and was considered a sister organization of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) ("Security Service").

This Day In History April 26, 1777

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Sybil Ludington

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Sybil Ludington
Statue of Sybil Ludington in Carmel, New York by Anna Hyatt Huntington.
Born	April 5, 1761 Kent, New York, U.S.
Died	February 26, 1839 (aged 77) Catskill, New York, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Edmond Ogden (married in 1784)
Children	1

Sybil Ludington commemorative stamp

Sybil Ludington (April 5, 1761 – February 26, 1839), daughter of Colonel Henry Ludington, was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War who, mounted on her horse, Star, became famous for her night ride on April 26, 1777 to alert rebel forces to the approach of the British regular forces. Her action was similar to that performed by Jack Jouett, William Dawes and Paul Revere,^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} although she rode more than twice the distance of Revere and was only 16 years old at the time of her action. She was an aunt of Harrison Ludington, a Governor of Wisconsin.

Amen!

Amen

("firm", "faithful", else "verily".) Jesus is "the Amen, the, faithful and true witness"  Rev 3:14). Compare 2Co 1:20; Joh 1:14; Joh 1:17; Joh 14:6. "The God of Amen" (Hebrew for "truth")  Isa 65:16). Jesus alone introduces His authoritative declarations with Amen in the beginning; in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, singly, in John  Joh 3:3; Joh 3:5; Joh 3:11; Joh 10:1) always doubled. It is most marked how the apostles and others avoid the use of it in the beginning, which is His divine prerogative. Jer 28:6 is not an exception; it is praying for the divine ratification of what preceded. In oaths those who pronounce the "Amen" bind themselves by the oath Num 5:22; Deu 27:15-26).
God alone can seal all His declarations of promise or threat with the "Amen," verily, in its fullest sense; our assertions mostly need some qualification. As John records Christ's discourses on the deeper things of God, which man is slow to believe, the double Amen is appropriately found at the beginning of such discourses 25 times. Amen was the proper response to a prayer, an oath, or a solemn promise  1Ki 1:30; Neh 5:13; Neh 8:6; 1Ch 16:36; Jer 11:5); the God of Amen witnesses our covenants. Jewish tradition states that the people responded to the priest's prayer not "Amen," but, "Blessed be the name of the glory of His kingdom for ever." But in synagogues, as in the Christian assemblies, and in family and private prayers, Amen was the response  Mat 6:13; 1Co 14:16).

THE ANSWER TO PRAYER

MATTHEW

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7:7 Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.
7:8 For each one who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, it shall be opened.
7:9 Or what man is there of you, if his son asks a loaf, will he give him a stone?
7:10 Or if he asks a fish, will he give him a snake?
7:11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him?

LUKE

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11:9 And I say to you, Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you.
11:10 For everyone who asks receives. And he who seeks finds. And to him who knocks it shall be opened.
11:11 For what father of you, if the son asks for bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake for a fish?
11:12 Or if he shall ask for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?

Lincoln's Address in independence Hall February 22, 1861

Lincoln's Sixteenth President (1861-1865) Address in Independence Hall Philadelphia, PA February 22, 1861
Mr. Cuyler:  I am filled with deep emotion at finding myself standing here, in this place, where were collected together the wisdom, the patriotism, the devotion to principle, from which sprang the institutions under which we live. You have kindly suggested to me that in my hands is the task of restoring peace to the present distracted condition of the country. I can say in return, Sir, that all the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. I have often pondered over the dangers which were incurred by the men who assembled here, and framed and adopted that Declaration of Independence. I have pondered over the toils that were endured by the officers and soldiers of the army who achieved that Independence. I have often inquired of myself what great principle of idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the motherland; but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men. This is a sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world, if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed or war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say, in advance, that there will be no bloodshed unless it be forced upon the Government, and then it will be compelled to act in self-defence.  My friends, this is wholly an unexpected speech, and I did not expect to be called upon to say a word when I came here. I supposed it was merely to do something toward raising the flag. I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet. (Cries of "No, no") I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, die by.