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The Disney movie “Avatar: Way of the Water,” showing January 13-15 and 20-22 at Richardson Theatres, is heading to be the highest grossing movie EVER. Last we checked, that number is growing exponentially daily, the number on Monday was $2.29 billion world-wide and nearly $600 million domestica...

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According to usdebtclock.org, as of 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday, December 28, 2022, there were 22,605,156 millionaires and 43,175,075 food stamp recipients in the U.S. The U.S. dollar to crypto currency ratio was 24.66-to-1 while the U.S. dollar-to-crypto currency ratio in 2013 was 9,334 to 1. T...

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We were reading the other day and came across the word ephah. Not knowing what it was we had to look it up. It’s an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, equal to about a bushel (probably about 30 lbs. or 13 kilograms, so the definition said). We always thought the rule of thumb was 60 lbs. per bu...

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Things became interesting during the Daniels County Poker League on Thursday, November 17, at Banjo’s Club 109. While the tournament game was winding down and the cash game in its early stages, a group of hunters popped into the establishment and eventually found themselves in the back room watchi...

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Comertown, located along the currently out-ofservice Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western Railroad branchline between Dooley on the west side and Westby on the east side, was named after William and Phi Comer, says the November 3, 2022 issue of The Sheridan County News newspaper. William and Phi...