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Click here to donate via secure server Friday the 13th of May 2016! Feeling Lucky? Well, Are Ya? Then go ahead! PUNCH ME!Come ON! At least, HIT me! Today, May 13, 2016, is Friday the Thirteenth! It's the only Friday the Thirteenth we will have in 2016. Friday the Thirteenth's are culturally viewed as days of bad luck, but why? Do you know? Exactly how Friday the 13th came to be viewed in this light is arguable, because there are no considerable mentions of superstitions associated with this date prior to the 19th century, but there are educated guesses...

"I Am of Heaven" The First Visit, May 13, 1917 The flash of light that commenced the first apparition looked like lightning to Lucy. She told her younger companions, Francisco and Jacinta, that they should hurry home and take with them the flock of sheep they were tending, before a thunderstorm began. A second flash of light soon followed, and this time, the children suddenly saw a Woman standing on a small holm-oak, only a few feet away. She seemed to Lucy to be about 18 to 20 years old, wearing a white gown embroidered with gold. She radiated brilliant...

I'm sure the Democrats are trying to convince people who voted in the Democrat Primary on March 11th that they can't vote Republican today. This is the general and you can vote for anyone on the ballot. Need to vote for Greg Davis (R) to keep the Dems from using another Democrat who is campaigning as a Conservative Travis Childers from adding to Pelosi's stable of reliable votes.

SIEVERNICH. More and more visitors are coming to the village church of St. John the Baptist in Sievernich. Not waves of pilgrims yet, but in Sievernich, a district of Vettweiß in Voreifel near Bonn, the influx of visitors is increasing. The village has 460 residents, about 360 of whom are Roman Catholic. Like other visitors, I cross the churchyard where the gravel between the graves crunches beneath my feet as I search for the entrance. My eyes wander through the church. Just past the door on the left stands a Fatima Madonna. Candles lit by earlier visitors burn in...