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no, there's a 3rd option: I found the above article by Chuck Scriven flat out boring and wordy. While wading through it, I kept wishing he'd just get to the point.

5 Things You Didn't Know about Queen Elizabeth_2 On this day in 1952, King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland died in his sleep. Princess Elizabeth, the oldest of the king’s two daughters and next in line to succeed him. Here are 5 things you probably didn’t know about the longest-reigning British monarch.... The Queen’s Handbag Serves a Purpose The Queen doesn’t require a place to keep her house keys, but according to the royal biographer, Sally Bedell Smith, she does have things in her purse that most women carry such as a tube of lipstick, reading glasses, a mirror, pen, lozenges and a few bills to put in the collection plate at church. However, the Queen’s handbag serves another purpose. When she moves her handbag from one arm to the other, it is a signal to the staff that she wants to end the conversation she is in, while placing her bag on the dinner table means she wants the meal to be over in five minutes. She Has Two Birthdays The Queen's actual date of birth is April 21, 1926, but it is officially celebrated on June 8. The royal tradition of having two birthdays began in 1748 with King George II, who was born in November and wanted to hold a large public celebration. However, the weather that time of year would have made that difficult. As part of Queen Elizabeth’s birthday celebration, an enormous parade is held, and the Royal Air Force performs an aerial display. The Queen Always Loved Corgis The Queen received her first corgi, Susan, in 1944 as a birthday gift. Over the years, she has had 30 of the affectionate, lively little herding dogs. Her last corgi, Willow, died in 2018 and was the 14th and last purebred generation in the line. The Queen still owns two corgi/dachshund mixes named Candy and Vulcan and adopted a corgi named Whisper, whose owner passed away last year. She Used Rationing Coupons to Help Pay for her Wedding Gown Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, the Duke of Edinburgh, on November 20, 1947. To pay for the fabric that was used in her wedding gown, she was given 200 coupons by the British government, and in addition, used her rationing coupons. The completed gown was ivory silk and decorated with seed pearls and crystals. Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth Are Cousins Queen Victoria, who lived from 1819 until 1901, was the great-great-grandmother of both the Prince and the Queen. Queen Elizabeth is descended from Queen Victoria on her father’s side of the family, while the Prince is descended from her on his mother’s side.

Here's the parable and you tell me where it says that 5 woke up and 5 woke up late?? From what I read it says they all woke up together!! 1 "The Kingdom of Heaven at that time will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went out to meet the groom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were sensible. 3 The foolish ones took lamps with them but no oil, 4whereas the others took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5 Now the bridegroom was late, so they all went to sleep. 6 It was the middle of the night when the cry rang out, `The bridegroom is here! Go out to meet him!' 7 The girls all woke up and prepared their lamps for lighting. 8 The foolish ones said to the sensible ones, `Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.' 9 `No,' they replied, `there may not be enough for both you and us. Go to the oil dealers and buy some for yourselves.' 10 But as they were going off to buy, the bridegroom came. Those who were ready went with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut. 11 Later, the other bridesmaids came. `Sir! Sir!' they cried, `Let us in!' 12 But he answered, `Indeed! I tell you, I don't know you!'

I finished the article and even though its OK, I still disagree with him that the Bible is talking about the whole Universe!! I don't really have a problem with the universe being billions of years old and planet earth being 6,000 years old! But we will never really know that, at least not now, today, but after the Lord comes and we have the time to ask and talk about all the reasons for this and that!! From what I understand there are things that God is not letting us know about or at least understand while we live here on earth, like the real age of planet earth!! Obviously by faith we should accept that the earth is 6,000 years old, personally its something that I really don't need to know, because is it really that important??

February 7, 2019 * Next week I will begin a series of injections directly into my eyeballs that will be designed to slow the changes in my vision that are taking place. * Those injections will likely take place on a regular basis for some 36 months to the rest of my life. * I am thankful for the medical science that has treatments for conditions that could not be treated in the past. * As to the outcome of those injections, no one knows. Stabilization at my present level of eyesight is probably the best that can be expected.