Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
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| Queen Elizabeth? |
| The Elizabethan Era was named after Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn was executed when Bess was two and a half. Good Queen Bess, frequently known then and now as The Virgin Queen, reigned over England and Ireland from the end of 1558 until she died. |
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| 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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| “Corncob Pipe Capital of the World” |
| Washington, Missouri has the distinction of being named the “Corncob Pipe Capital of the World.” The company whose work led to this distinction is the Missouri Meerschaum Company, one of the world’s largest producers of corncob pipes. This town sits in the low hills along the Missouri River. |
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| Sports & Recreation |
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| A Ghoulish Plethora of Monster Facts |
| Monsters-both imagined and real-conjure up ghastly images of fangs and cauldrons, murky lakes and fiery caverns, forked tongues and evil eyes. The following facts concern monsters from various cultures around the world. |
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