Has anything unexplainable happened to you?
I was seven years old when my parents took the family to Communist Russia during the 1970s. We lived there for six months while my father did mathematical research. Upon arrival at the airport, the suspicious Russian guards began thoroughly searching our seven suitcases, convinced that we were spies. Americans simply didn't go to Russia in the 70s! We of course we're not spies. However, my parents had packed one of the suitcases full of Bibles. It was highly illegal in Russia at that time and my parents could have received a very long prison sentence. But they wanted to get Bibles to the people of Russia, as they were not allowed to purchase them in their country.After searching the six suitcase without Bibles, they approached the seventh. I think my dad even told us that one guard’s hand was literally on the zipper of the suitcase with all the Bibles. Unexpectedly, one of the guards said something like "There is nothing but clothes in these suitcases. Let the Americans go. Besides, their poorly-behaved children are being too loud and rambunctious!” My father was fluent in Russian and translated for us.The shocking thing was that my brother, only five at the time, and I had been quietly standing there the entire time. We were exhausted from nearly 24 hours of flying, so we were hardly being loud. We hadn't said a word. There were no children around us either. Whatever the guards thought they heard or saw, it certainly wasn't reality and it saved my parents from decades in a Russian prison. I'm extremely skeptical about most things, but this incident has always reminded me that God is absolutely real!Months later, my father was hours away from handing over some of these Bibles to a Russian pastor at an underground secret church. But he suddenly felt like he shouldn't meet this man after all. The pastor turned out to be an undercover KGB agent, only discovered three years later as explained in a letter by a member of the church who befriended us. Yet again, protection from God. That will stick with me forever.
What do you think has happened to the missing 3 year old boy in scotland?!?
Who knows what has happened. As a 3 year old I regularly would go walk about even as far as the railways marshalling yards where I'd watch trains being shunted. No one ever knew as I'd be back in bed before the house was up in the morning. I hope the child is OK but it is now looking fishy.
17 year old male virgin, almost giving up?
What? Your only 17 (older than me, but still). I don't even know how to make this coherent so I'll just say a bunch of stuff, but I hope I get my point across. Okay so for one, if your friends ever make fun of you (not that you said that they do, just saying) for being a virgin then they might not be very good friends. The way you seem to be thinking about it is also bandwagon-y I suppose? Like "Everyone else has, so why haven't I?" trust me, while it may seem like a strange comparison, and I suppose I will be completely honest here, I'm only 13, (turning 14 soon) but even at this young age multiple people around me have dated people, kissed people, heck- I'm sure some have even had sex (bad idea at such a young age though). So I of course feel a bit awkward about it, why haven't I dated anyone? kissed anyone? I would chalk it up to nobody liking me but I actually have a friend who likes me but no matter how hard I try to I don't like them in the same way (whole other story though) anyways though, your young. Live your life, chase your dreams, maybe you'll fall in love with someone along the way, but don't make it your whole world, don't let your virginity define you or whatever. And don't just lose 'it' to some random stranger either (nothing against it, but isn't your first time supposed to be special? I don't even know.) But then again I'm just some 13 year old who can't figure out her own feelings, needs to stop procrastinating, and is trying to be more inspirational then she actually is. That got really ramble-y inspirational speach-y towards the end the end there so I apologize for that
Is the last name "Strickland" more Irish or more Scottish?
Decide what you want to find out about first A surname OR Your ancestry The two are completely different subjects and a surname NEVER tells you where your ancestry is from, you have to RESEARCH to find that out and that starts with you and your own records and they are at home http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsin... All the surnames you are asking about are from the English language and three quarters of the worlds countries were influenced by that language, so your ancestors could have come from any one of those..it is not from a Celtic language so it is not Irish or Scottish, that doens't mean your ancestry is not irish or Scottish but trying to use a 'word' to find out ancestry is useless....... On the basis you are working on... my surname is French, I have several French surnames in my lines and I have researched and have NO French ancestry at all, but in the country my ancestors lived in English, French and Latin was spoken at the time surnames were being taken/given so from any of those languages would come the names