Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
Faith & Spirituality |
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| Neither a Jot nor a Tittle |
| The sixty-six books of the Christian Bible, and particularly the twenty-seven books of the New Testament, are the means by which Christians are supposed to know God, and to know what God expects of them. Actually, the Catholic Bible contains seventy-three books, as it includes the apocrypha. |
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| Sports & Recreation |
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| Facts about Gold |
| Gold may have been the first metal to be used by humans, probably in ceremony and for decoration. The Latin word for gold, aurum means “shining dawn.” An Egyptian king from 2600 bce described gold as “common as dust.” |
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| Sports & Recreation |
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| They Died Laughing |
| Aside from dying in your sleep, dying of laughter might seem like the perfect way to go. And although it sounds like the stuff of fiction, on rare occasions it has been known to happen in real life. |
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| Sports & Recreation |
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| Zippers: A Long Time in the Making |
| To get to the point in which zippers are today, there were three major stages in which it had to go through. The first of these started back on August 29, 1893 when the first zipper-like fastener was patented by Whitcomb Judson. |
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