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1. Is the book of Ecclesiastes 4. From 2 Samuel 14,
in the Old or New how many shekels did
Testament or neither? Absalom's hair weigh after
he cut it off? 2, 10, 50, 200
2. The King James translation
of the Bible contains 5. Two hundred shekels
more than how many weighed around how many
references to gems and precious stones? pounds by royal standard in biblical times?
100, 500, 1,700, 2,200 1/2, 1, 3, 5

3. Which book recounts the story of 6. Where did Jesus attend a wedding where
the Israelites wandering in the desert the wine was exhausted?
for 40 years? Sardis, Antioch of Syria, Joppa,
Titus, Hebrews, James, Romans Cana of Galilee

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Records Center (NPRC) being mostly closed due to houses are selling at outstanding rates and prices.
COVID-19 with staff unable to process requests for should you consider selling your home property now?
information. I warned that unless you have one of a
very short list of essential reasons for asking, your should you consider in buying your home now?
request is going back on the pile to be handled later. the answer is a solid yes!

Now, the Department of Veterans Affairs is going there is a small inventory of homes for sale right now and many times,
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Administration to get COVID-19 vaccines to on- whats more interesting is that home loans are so low,
site staff so that they can return to work to process never have been this low in the last 20 years!
compensation claims. The VA is going to provide if you want to sell your property for let’s say $350,000,
enrollment specialists and medical staff with you will most likely have at least 5 competing
vaccines provided by the Department of Health qualified buyers with either cash or home loans.
and Human Services. dont be surprised to get offers over your asking price!

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can get medical treatment, burials and homeless
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And, no, in answer to one Missouri veteran who asked for buyers, interested in purchasing their homes,
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research. All National Archives research rooms are by directing them how they can improve their credit to get their dream home.
closed. All museums are closed. No tours, no school
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in this case, you will only need a 3 to 5% down payment.
If you have a genuine emergency, you'll need to
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Military Records. The NPRC's website says its fax when you can own your own home for about $1,200 to $1,500 a month
machines are down, but here are alternate fax numbers
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1. Name the country music 1. What was the name of the
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only 44.25 hours. around the world non-stop?

2. Beginning in 1990,
what was prohibited
on aircraft?

3. Name the jet that
shuttled passengers at
a cruising speed of 1340
mph (2158 km/hr) from
New York to Europe
from 1976 to 2003.

4. What plane was intro-
duced in 1982 that had a
cruise speed of 530 mph
(853 km/hr), the first
with a glass cockpit?

5. What 1965 movie told
the story of an air race
from London to Paris?

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you find that➤ Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Peter Benchley's "Jaws" made a lot of
folks afraid to go back in the water, but perhaps what they should have
been more concerned about is the fact that the sea is also home to nearly

"Just Right"200,000 different kinds of viruses!
➤ It is illegal to enter the House of Parliament while wearing a suit of armor.

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English village Paddock Wood in Kent. On Jan. 28, 1896, he clocked in at
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for youchased him down on a bicycle and issued Arnold a ticket.

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killed in a police ambush near Sailes, Louisiana. They died in a two-minute
RENTALS • SALES fusillade of over 150 bullets. The Barrow Gang was believed responsible for
• MODIFICATIONS the deaths of 13 people, including nine police officers.
➤ On May 21, 1955, then-unknown singer Chuck Berry pays his first
WE DELIVER visit to a recording studio and cuts "Maybellene." The song became a No. 1
R&B hit and a top 5 pop hit. It helped that DJ Alan Freed played the record
for two hours straight during his WINS radio show in
New York City.
➤ On May 17, 1965, after a two-year investigation, the FBI declares
the supposedly pornographic lyrics of "Louie Louie" to be officially
unintelligible.
➤ On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens, a volcanic peak in southwestern
Washington, violently erupts. The massive blast killed 57 people and leveled
nearly all vegetation as far as 12 miles away.
➤ On May 19, 1997, a 3-year-old boy dies of avian influenza in Hong Kong.
Before the outbreak was controlled, six people were dead and
1.6 million domestic fowl were destroyed. The virus mutated and
caused 62 more human deaths in Asia by 2005.
➤ On May 20, 2007, Fox's long-running animated series "The Simpsons" airs
its 400th episode. "The Simpsons" debuted in December 1989 with a special
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way for other adult-oriented animated series, notably "King of the Hill," "The
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Lessons Learned From handheld vacuum cleaner. If you're faced with making a purchase online
Buying Online My little handheld vac began dying after just and are hit with too many choices, call your local
stores and ask what they recommend. Then look
So many things have changed in how we a short time. I tried to baby it along, but now up the item online. If an item description (such as
live our lives in the time of COVID. It's been a even with a full overnight charge, it only runs for a big fry pan) says it weighs 5.2 pounds, take
year since it all began in earnest and, despite for 42 seconds before it quits again and wants your current fry pan into the bathroom and weigh
the vaccines, nothing has really gone back to another long charge. it on your scale for comparison. If you want new
normal. Even small tasks have a layer of "more shirts and the sizing chart online is iffy, order more
difficult" on them ... such as buying a new Used to be I'd go off to a local store, examine of what you already have, but in different colors.
several possibilities and buy one. This time I went
online, where thousands of selections awaited The end result of this saga is that I purchased
me, as well as hundreds of reviews for each item. the same brand and model as my current
I changed the list to lowest price first. I changed vacuum. If nothing else, I know it will last
the list to most popular. I searched for only the approximately 2.5 years, which is right after
manufacturer of my current handheld vac. the warranty expires. But at least I'll know what
It didn't help. to expect while it works.

Here are some things I learned along the way.

By Dana Jackson Q:Is it true that actress Jessica Chastain will be playing Q:When is the new Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Gram-
Jessica Chastain both Tammy Wynette and Tammy Faye Bakker? mer sitcom coming out? I heard that the people who
-- C.P. wrote "Modern Family" are behind it, so it's got to be good.
in "The Help" -- C.J.
A:Jessica Chastain made her professional acting debut
Photo credit: DreamWorks II Distribution in 2004 with a guest-star appearance on the hit medical A:Back in November, the dream duo of Baldwin and
drama "ER." She's so good, it's shocking that she hasn't won Grammer were picked to star in a new ABC comedy
an Oscar. She's come awfully close with back-to-back about two ex-roommates who reconnect after their egos drove
Academy Award nominations for her roles in "The Help" them apart in their 20s. Unfortunately, ABC was reportedly
and "Zero Dark Thirty." so unimpressed after watching the pilot episode that it passed
Chastain will play the mascara-caked, publicly humiliated on the sitcom. Perhaps it will find a home on another network
pastor's wife Tammy Faye Bakker in the upcoming biopic film someday, but for now it's a dead project.
"The Eyes of Tammy Faye." Andrew Garfield ("The Amazing
Spider-Man") will play her televangelist husband Jim Bakker, •••
while Vincent D'Onofrio ("Full Metal Jacket") takes on the role
of Jerry Falwell. Chastain, who is also one of the film's produc- Q:I read that there's going to be a sequel to the sitcom
ers, credits Tammy Faye as "a woman ahead of her time." "How I Met Your Mother" starring Hilary Duff.
In addition to what will surely be another chance at Oscar with I thought she was bringing back her Lizzie McGuire
the above project, Chastain also could be a contender for an character in a reboot of that show. Is she doing both? -- R.R.
Emmy by playing another Tammy -- country music legend
Tammy Wynette. "George & Tammy" is in preproduction for A:The return of "Lizzie McGuire" was canceled before it
future streaming on Spectrum as a limited series. It's based ever really got started on Disney+. The streaming
on a book written by George Jones and Wynette's daughter, service didn't have the same creative vision for the show as
Georgette. According to Deadline.com, "George & Tammy" Duff did, so they parted ways. Duff was hopeful that Hulu
was originally pitched as a feature film seven years ago, but would pick up the more adult version of "Lizzie McGuire,"
was later re-envisioned as a series. It hasn't been announced but that never materialized.
yet who will play George, but regardless, I predict the 2022 Hulu had another idea, however, casting her as the lead in
awards season will be very kind to Chastain. "How I Met Your Father," a modern spinoff of the long-running
CBS sitcom "HIMYM," which starred Josh Radnor and
••• Cobie Smulders. Hulu has already ordered 10 episodes,
so Duff should feel pretty confident after the big letdown that
was her original baby.

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