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BEST OF 2002-2003 Photogallery of flags and candles remembering September 11,2001 victims Jewish students walk for Israel IMPRESSIONSA patriotic war is just to protect people (1)Americans face their toughest challengeProud beyond words to be an AmericanWar is necessary for justiceNot all Middle Easterner's are suspectFailure ought to be the stepping stone to successA lot of good Lott's apology did! It is a matter of principle and ethicsEXPRESSIONSConstitution supports God and patriotism One Numb-er Vote for the perfect candidate 24-7! What if Jesus talked football?
Gospel revealed through semantics and word play HOTPRESSIONSHomosexuality examined in light of Scripture and ScienceNo choice is not an excuse to do wrong!Consequences do not imply hate!PHOTOGALLERY
Photogallery of students enjoying Thanksgiving feast
at the Marketplace
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY DEC 22
Inventions:100 years ago News:
50
years ago News:
25 years ago Source: http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/events/bay1222.html
News:
5 years ago News: 1 year ago 2002
Time magazine
names three women ``whistleblowers'' its
Persons of the Year for 2002:
Coleen Rowley, 48, was the FBI agent in Arizona whose May 2002
memorandum to FBI Director Robert Mueller criticized the agency for
ignoring evidence suggesting the possibility of terrorist attacks using
airplanes.
Cynthia Cooper, 38, was an internal auditor at WorldCom who alerted
the telecommunications firm's board of directors to $3.8 billion in
accounting irregularities.
Sherron Watkins, 43, was a vice president of Enron, who warned
company chairman Kenneth Lay in 2001 that the firm could collapse as a
result of extensive false accounting. December 22nd happenings in history! Birth: 1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach,
composer and son of J.S. Bach was born. 1903 - Dr Barbara Moore who
walked across U.S. in 86 days in 1960 was born. Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today Deaths: 1440 - Bluebeard, a pirate was
executed. 1899 - Dwight L Moody, U.S.
evangelist and founder of the Student Volunteer Movement dies. Entertainment: 1958 - "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1. 1997 - Nancy Kerring & Tonya
Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5, 1998. Inventions: 1882 - 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison. Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today News: 1731 - Dutch people revolt
against meat tax. 1807 - Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France. 1870 - Jules Janssen flies in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse. 1886 - 1st national
accountants' society in U.S formed in New York, N.Y. 1910 - U.S. postal savings stamps 1st issued. 1934 - 1st flight from
Netherlands to Curaçao named Christmas flight 1934 took place. 1941 - Prime Minister Winston
Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. for a wartime conference. 1947 - Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution. 1964 - Lockheed SR-71 spy
aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet). 1971 - UN General Assembly
ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General. Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today 1977 - In New York City, Thomas Helms, 26, climbs to the edge of the observation deck on the eighty-sixth floor of the Empire State Building, and attempts to kill himself by leaping from the building and to the streets more than a 300 m below. However he only falls 6 m before landing on a narrow ledge on the 85th floor. Helms suffers no major injuries but is knocked unconscious for half-an-hour--adequate time for an emergency crew to bring him safely inside. Completed in 1931, the Empire State Building stands 449 m from the top of its radio antennae to 34th Street and Fifth Avenue below, and was the world's tallest building until the completion of New York's first World Trade Center tower in 1972. Source: http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/all42day/history/h4dec/h4dec22.html 1983 - Egyptian President
Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat. 1984 -Four black youths are shot and wounded by Bernhard Goetz on a NYC subway train. Source: http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/all42day/history/h4dec/h4dec22.html 1988 - Two robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 million in New Jersey. 1988 - South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa. 1989 - Cold wave: -4ºF in Oklahoma City OK, -6ºF in Tulsa OK, -12ºF in Pittsburgh PA, -18ºF in Denver CO, -23ºF in Kansas City MO, -42ºF in Scottsbluff NE, -47ºF in Hardin MT & -60ºF in Black Hills SD. 1989 - Chad adopts its
Constitution. 1989 - After 23 years of dictatorial
rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu. 1990 - Iraq announces it will
never give up Kuwait. Source: http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/all42day/history/h4dec/h4dec22.html
Publications: Religion: 1770 - Birth of Father Demetrius Gallitzin, a Dutch Catholic priest. Arriving in America in 1792, he spent his remaining years as a frontier missionary, building up the Catholic church in parts of PA, MD, VA and WV. Gallitzin became known as the "Apostle to the Alleghenies." Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987 1772 - Moravian missionary
constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny. 1804 - Anglican missionary to Persia Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'I look forward to a day of prayer; for my soul hath great need of quickening and restoration, that it may act more in the view of eternity.' Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987 1921 - The first U.S.
commercial radio license assigned to a religious broadcaster was awarded
to the National Presbyterian Church of Washington, D.C. Within five
years, there were over 60 other licensed religious broadcasters,
including KJS_Biola (L.A.), KFUO_Concordia Seminary (St. Louis), and
WMBI_Moody Bible Institute (Chicago). Sports: 1962 - 1,000,000th NBA point scored. 1969 - Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots. 1996 - Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD. Compiled by Ramesh C. Reddy
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