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Granddad’s False Teeth:

I’ve told my children, and grandchildren, old stories about my own childhood, one was when my granddad Driskill got his false teeth. He must have been close to 80 at the time, ‘toothless’ for years – ‘gummed his food and his pipe.’ Enjoyed both.

            A well-known Bible passage is found in Ephesians 6:1.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the creator of Sherlock Holmes, perhaps the most famous detective in all of literary fiction.  Sherlock Holmes was originally Sherrinford.  The name was altered to Sherlock, possibly because of a cricket player who bore the name.  Sir Doyle was a cricket fan, and the na

Sometimes little things are more interesting and telling about people than momentous events particularly well-known people.  Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, president from 1901-1909, was a cousin to President Franklin Roosevelt (1933-1945) Teddy put his small kids into a rope attached basket and pull