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the smartest guys in the class

By Diogenes ( articles ) | Oct 17, 2009

Times are tough for all of us. But your Uncle Di didn't lose $500 million gambling on interest-rates last year. Did you? No? Guess we're not smart enough.

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Thu16 October
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Thursday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Hedwig, Religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin

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The Church offers the choice of Optional Memorials today: —St. Hedwig (1174-1243): Hedwig was the aunt of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, was married at an early age to Henry, Duke of Silesia. After their six children had been born, they both strove to advance in sanctity and to enrich Silesia and Poland…

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