Day: May 23, 2026

The Bronze Statue

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A Tourist walked into a Chinese curio shop in San Francisco. While looking around at the exotic merchandise, he noticed a very lifelike, life-sized, bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but was so incredibly striking the tourist decided he must have it. He took it to the old shop owner and asked, “How much for the bronze rat ?”

“Ahhh, you have chosen wisely! It is $12 for the rat and $100 for the story,” said the wise old China-man.

The tourist quickly pulled out twelve dollars. “I’ll just take the rat, you can keep the story”.

As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, the tourist noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and had begun following him down the street. This was a bit disconcerting so he began walking faster.

A couple blocks later he looked behind him and saw to his horror the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began squealing.

Sweating now, the tourist began to trot toward San Francisco Bay.

Again, after a couple blocks, he looked around only to discover that the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS, and were squealing and coming toward him faster and faster.

Terrified, he ran to the edge of the Bay and threw the bronze rat as far as he could into the Bay.

Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the Bay after the bronze rat and were all drowned.

The man walked back to the curio shop in Chinatown.

“Ahhh,” said the owner, “You come back for story ?”

“No sir,” said the man, “I came back to see if you have a bronze Democrat.

Phones….

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Fun Facts…Cities Part 1

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There are officially more than 50,000 cities around the world.

According to the United Nations, 2007 was the year in which the population of the world shifted so that more than 50% of the people worldwide lived in cities, not rural areas, for the first time in human history.

Rome was the first city in the world to attain a population of 1,000,000 people. Incredibly, historians estimate this landmark was reached more than 2,000 years ago in 133 BCE.

The first city in the world to be home to more than 5,000,000 people was London in 1900. In fact, London was the biggest city in the world until it was overtaken by New York in 1915.

With a total population of more than 37 million people, the world’s most highly populated city is Tokyo.

Zagreb, Croatia, is the only capital city in the world whose name begins with Z.

The world’s largest French-speaking city isn’t Paris – it is Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

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Messier 2
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto et al.

Explanation: After the Crab Nebula, this giant star cluster is the second entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier’s famous list of things that are not comets. M2 is one of the largest globular star clusters now known to roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Though Messier originally described it as a nebula without stars, this stunning Hubble image resolves stars across the cluster’s central 40 light-years. Its population of stars numbers close to 150,000, concentrated within a total diameter of around 175 light-years. About 55,000 light-years distant toward the constellation Aquarius, this ancient denizen of the Milky Way, also known as NGC 7089, is 13 billion years old. An extended stellar debris stream, a signature of past gravitational tidal disruption, was recently found to be associated with Messier 2.

Tomorrow’s picture: moving Sun dark

Bible Verse

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 There is a right time for everything. Everything that we do on the earth has a proper time.