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SOLEMNITY OF THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD LUKE 1:26-38 Friends, in today’s Gospel from Luke, we find the Annunciation to Mary. Here is what Gabriel said to the Virgin: "You will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. . . . The Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his Kingdom there will be no end." No first-century Israelite would have missed the meaning here: this child shall be the fulfillment of the promise made to King...

GAFFNEY, SC—Multiple five-year old witnesses confirm that their teacher, Miss Whifflestrom, dropped the class gerbil in awe after hearing brilliant young kindergartener Timothy correctly describe boys as having a penis and girls, a vagina. Within hours, young Timothy had been granted a PhD in Biology. “We hereby grant the intellectual phenom, young Timothy Swanson this honored PhD in Biology for his work in clearly differentiating the subtle variations between Homosapien boys and girls,” said the chairman of the American Council of Biology PhDs, while handing a certificate to the young boy who only hours ago was sticking crayon shavings up...

Archaeologists recreated a Pompeiian villa destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. using virtual reality technology to better understand how visitors would have seen the ancient home, according to the recently published paper in the archaeology journal Antiquity. The researchers carefully created a digital model of the ancient home known as the House of the Epigrams, a villa excavated in the 1870s and so named because it contains mythical paintings accompanied by Greek epigrams. While the owner of the house is impossible to know for sure, researchers have suggested it may have belonged to a Lucius Valerius...

Horizon International Group had just nabbed the contract and city tax breaks to develop the W Hotel, a 300-odd-room luxury hotel set to sit atop the Partnership Tower in downtown Houston, in early March 2020. A week later, pandemic lockdowns ground the construction industry to a screeching halt, setting off ongoing labor shortages and project delays that have since been compounded by layoffs, the Great Resignation and severe materials shortages. When the W Hotel project picks back up later this year for Horizon, it will mark more than two years of labor and materials difficulties that have driven up costs...

<p>DENVER (KDVR) — A man has been arrested on a felony charge of criminal mischief for causing $10,000 in damage to a court at a Denver recreation center.</p><p>Arslan Guney, 71, was arrested on March 17 for making 45 marks with a permanent marker on the basketball court at the Central Park Rec Center to identify the boundaries on a court used for pickleball.</p>

Longtime television broadcaster Kari Lake is leading Arizona's Republican primary for governor, according to a new poll. This week, a poll from Alloy Analytics found Lake at the top of the field with 37 percent support from likely GOP primary voters. Lake, who was endorsed by Donald Trump last year, was ahead of the second-place candidate by 22 percentage points. Karrin Taylor Robson trailed Lake, garnering 15 percent support from respondents. Matt Salmon and Steve Gaynor were in third and fourth place respectively, each with under 10 percent support in the poll.

The New York dealer Adam Williams bought the fruity still-lifeA painting of a pile of strawberries by the 18th-century French artist Jean-Siméon Chardin fetched €24.4m (with fees) at Artcurial in Paris yesterday, setting an auction record for the artist. The auction house says that the price is also the highest paid at auction for an 18th-century French painting. The work was bought by the New York dealer Adam Williams, who was bidding in the room. This was confirmed by the Old Master paintings specialist Eric Turquin who advised on the sale and wrote the catalogue entry. He also tells The...

On Saturday, March 26, Donald Trump is planning to visit Commerce, Georgia for his latest Save America rally. The event will be held at the Banks County Dragway, the former home of the NHRA Southern Nationals. The address is listed as 500 East Ridgeway Road, Commerce, GA, 30529 - attendees must register online before the rally. Doors are expected to open at 2pm with Trump's remarks scheduled at 7pm. "The rally is the latest in a series of events by the former president to boost his roster of endorsed candidates," according to The Hill.

Earlier today Joe Biden landed in Rzeszow, Poland, to get a firsthand look at international efforts to help some of the millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing war in their country. While there he delivered remarks to the 82nd Airborne who are bolstering NATO’s eastern flank. During his remarks, Joe Biden stated the troops are going to see heroic acts by the ordinary men and women of Ukraine. He directly implied the 82nd airborne unit was going into Ukraine, and stated “you are going to see when you are there.”

Russia claimed in a colorful new graphic that Hunter Biden is funding biolabs in Ukraine and that he and Democratic billionaire George Soros are bankrolling the production of anthrax. Titled 'Coordination of Biological Laboratories and Scientific Research Centers of Ukraine and the U.S.,' the diagram claims they are masterminds behind what Russian officials describe as 'especially dangerous pathogen of anthrax,' Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik reported. Russia claimed the information had been found in documents seized by their soldiers in Ukraine. Russia also claimed that the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) was involved in the scheme, 'The scale of...

re Nasrallah, the Saudi channel al-Haddad reported last night that 200 Hezbollah members are expected to join the Russian army's fighting in Ukraine in the coming days. It was claimed that the organization would receive Russian weapons in return. The reliability of the report is unclear and the desire to embarrass Nasrallah in front of the Lebanese public is evident. He incidentally vehemently denied recently that his men are fighting there https://t.co/Ub5uw4k20K— roi kais • روعي كايس • רועי קייס (@kaisos1987) March 25, 2022

Only 5 percent of Democrat primary voters support Hillary Clinton for President in a hypothetical 2024 bid, a Thursday McLaughlin & Associates poll revealed. The poll asked Democrat respondents who they would for if the 2024 Democrat primary were held today.

Minutes after reports of another Houthi missile strike on a Saudi Aramco facility sent oil prices to the highs of the session (while slamming the Nasdaq to a new daily low), a headline hit the tape trumpeting the possibility of yet another SPR release by the Biden Administration, as President Biden grows increasingly desperate to convince the US that he’s ‘doing something’ to counteract inflation, and punishing prices at the gas pump. #Biden Administration considering releasing more than 30M barrels from Strategic Petroleum Reserve — Marco Ða Costa (@TraderMarcoCost) March 25, 2022 Of course, just like last year’s SPR release,...

The Home Secretary confirmed last week that she had been tricked into a conversation with Russian pranksters posing as the Ukrainian prime minister soon after Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said he too had been targeted by a “Russian imposter.” Each of the conversations have shed light on the UK’s behind-the-scenes position on the Ukraine crisis. Russian pranksters Vladimir ‘Vovan’ Kuznetsov and Alexei ‘Lexus’ Stolyarov released the full video of their conversation with UK Home Secretary Priti Patel while disguised as Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. The clip offers insights into the Home Office’s response to the crisis between the West...

Not sure how many of our "gun nuts",It is from the site: "Black Sheep Innovations".You'll enjoy their gallery. (Link to web site and gallery below)The site is in German which Google does a good job in translating.But the pictures are universal.👍😁

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

(CNN)West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin announced on Friday that he plans to vote for President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, a move that all but guarantees she will be confirmed. In a statement outlining his decision, Manchin said, "I met with Judge Jackson and evaluated her qualifications to be a Supreme Court Justice. After meeting with her, considering her record, and closely monitoring her testimony and questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, I have determined I intend to vote for her nomination to serve on the Supreme Court." Manchin's announcement is notable since he...

I have a general questions for freepers who might be knowledgeable about electronics and such things. I have a CyberPower UPS that I run my desktop and monitor through. It seems to work OK when I actually lose power here. However, we apparently get overvolts occasionally. When that happens the UPS just drops power and turns off. Obviously, this is a less than ideal situation. I have to physically power it back on before I can restart my desktop. Kinda defeats the whole idea of having a UPS. The reason I suspect an overvolt situation, is because the UPS has...

Together with Slovenia and the Czech Republic, Poland has prepared a list of actions the EU must enforce if it really wants to end the war. 1) Cut off all Russian banks from the SWIFT international payment system. 2) Put in place a common asylum policy for Russian soldiers who refuse to serve the criminal regime in Moscow. 3) Completely stop Russian propaganda in Europe. Freedom of speech does not mean the right to lie. 4) Block Russian ships from our ports. 5) The same blockade must be put in place for road transport in and out of Russia. 6)...

JK Rowling has spoken out against Vladimir Putin after he defended the Harry Potter author in a speech condemning “cancel culture” in the west. The Russian president claimed the west was trying to cancel Russian culture, including the works of great composers such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitry Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninov. He said the British author had also been “cancelled” over her stance in transgender debates. “They cancelled Joanne Rowling recently – children’s author, her books are published all over the world – just because she didn’t satisfy the demands of gender rights,” he said during a televised speech. He...