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THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2025
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DEAR ABBY: I am a widow of two decades who has raised a family in an old historic home in a small island town. In the course of renovating and maintaining the home, a father-and-son electrician team have been like family.
Read moreA new year has begun, and a new Legislature will soon convene! On January 7, the First Session of the 60th Oklahoma Legislature will officially hold an organizational day to prepare for the work that begins Mondary, February 3 at the State Capitol.
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Last week we began to look at what Jesus endured before being nailed to the Cross; yes, nailed. We pick up the story by noting that evidence of nailing the feet on either side of the stipes comes from a fortuitous 1968 archeological excavation of a burial cave in Giv’at ha-Mivtar. The discovery yielded the remains of an individual crucified by the Romans, including the right calcaneum (heel bone) through which the crucifixion nail was driven, complete with the nail (still present piercing the bone) through and through. It is important to note, that these were no small nails. The dimensions of the nail that penetrated the heel bone measured 11.5 cm (4.53”) long with a square diameter of 1 cm (3/8”). According to Dr. Willam Edwards and colleagues, the likely “damage to the peroneal nerve and its branches of the medial and lateral plantar would have been substantial by the nails.” Likewise, nails driven through the wrist “would crush or sever the sensorimotor median nerve in the wrist resulting in paralysis of the hand.”
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2024
Read moreDear Dave, Do you have any advice for sticking with your goals and New Year’s resolutions? I always have great things in mind to shoot for in December, but then they always seem to fall by the wayside before spring.
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DEAR ABBY: My spouse and I (both women) have been together for 25 years. For half of them, we lived in the Middle East. We met while working as health care expatriates. My spouse is from South Africa and was raised very differently than I was.
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