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LightGramsNovember 14, 2024Volume 28, Number 34 Bonnyrigg Rose is the name of a soccer club in Bonnyrigg, Scotland. Among its past members is someone you may have heard of: Sean Connery, one of the more famous actors to play the role of James Bond. Just that fact tells us that this club has a long…
LightGramsNovember 7, 2024Volume 28, Number 33 The story out of Laurel County, Kentucky less than two months ago captured the nation’s attention. As cars traveled along busy Interstate 75 near London, shots began ringing out. When the shots stopped, 12 cars had been hit and five people had been injured. The manhunt focused on a…
LightGramsOctober 31, 2024Volume 28, Number 32 Bay Search & Rescue in England received the call about a sheep that was stuck in quicksand on the seashore. A second sheep was spotted in a similar dilemma a few hundred yards away. The animals had been in this condition long enough that the sand gripped them tightly,…
LightGramsOctober 24, 2024Volume 28, Number 31 Earlier this month in Paris, “owlers” were told to stop digging; the replica of the fabled Golden Owl had been discovered. Finding the replica was the last key to claiming an owl made of gold and silver, and with diamond chips on its face. The search began in 1993…
LightGramsOctober 17, 2024Volume 28, Number 30 Sean Greasley struggled during the COVID pandemic, fighting mental health issues as well as the physical aspects of that virus. Now that he has recovered, he wants to give back to others who fight the same problems. That led to his plan to raise money for suicide prevention. His…
LightGramsOctober 10, 2024Volume 28, Number 29 “The safety of the mountains” is a thought many of us have embraced. Living in the Appalachian Mountains, we have enjoyed a relatively mild climate. Tornadoes have been rare, and snowstorms have been diverted in other directions by the mountains that surround us. The Appalachians are what I have…
LightGramsSeptember 26, 2024Volume 28, Number 28 Osman Gurcu recently claimed his third Guinness World Record. He has long been interested in basketball trick shots and had previously set records for the longest behind-the-backboard shot and the longest bounce shot. This most recent record was for the longest basketball shot made while blindfolded. His shot from…
LightGramsSeptember 19, 2024Volume 28, Number 27 Ken Wilson of Vacaville, California was determined to keep his expenses under control. Living in the same apartment for 19 years, he closely watched his power bill. To keep those utility costs lower, he began turning off nearly all of the electrical breakers when leaving for work each morning.…
LightGramsSeptember 12, 2024Volume 28, Number 26 If you happen to be in the market for plums, check out the Oppie Plaas Boerdery Farm in South Africa. This is where the world’s record for biggest plum was recently set when co-owners Dean and Deon Barnard found a plum that weighed 16.3 ounces. That broke the previous…
LightGramsSeptember 5, 2024Volume 28, Number 25 A college student from India has set a new record for the world’s smallest vacuum cleaner. Tapala Nadamuni, age 23, had set the record in 2020 when he created one that measured .69 inches, but that record vanished when a competitor made one even smaller. Nadamuni was not to…