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Sunday, April 30, 2017

The Daily Drift

Welcome to Today's Edition of
Carolina Naturally
Today happens to be Beltane - Time to light the fires ...!
 
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Satchmo ... !
Today is - International Jazz Day 

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Today in History

313 Licinius unifies the whole of the eastern Roman Empire under his own rule.
1250 King Louis IX of France is ransomed.
1527 Henry VIII of England and King Francis of France sign the Treaty of Westminster.
1563 All Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI.
1725 Spain withdraws from the Quadruple Alliance.
1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first U.S. president.
1803 The United States doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase, which was sold by France for $15 million.
1812 Louisiana is admitted into the Union as a state.
1849 Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian patriot and guerrilla leader, repulses a French attack on Rome.
1864 Work begins on the Dams along the Red River, which will allow Union General Nathaniel Banks‘ troops to sail over the rapids above Alexandria, Louisiana.
1930 The Soviet Union proposes a military alliance with France and Great Britain.
1931 The George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opens.
1943 The British submarine HMS Seraph drops ‘the man who never was,’ a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.
1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker. Karl Donitz becomes his successor.
1968 U.S. Marines attack a division of North Vietnamese troops in the village of Dai Do.
1970 U.S. troops invade Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas.
1972 The North Vietnamese launch an invasion of the South.
1973 Nixon announces the resignation of Harry Robbins Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and other top aides.
1975
Saigon falls as North Vietnamese forces gain control of the city. The Vietnam War formally ends as South Vietnam unconditionally surrenders.
1980 Terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London.

Same Wavelength

Buddhism Offers a Potent Philosophical Reason to Cut Meat Out of Your Diet

Whole Foods Is Tanking

Why Are Men Dropping Out of Work?

Florida Student In Deep Shit After Trying To Sell Black Classmates Into Slavery On Craigslist

Florida Student In Deep Shit After Trying To Sell Black Classmates Into Slavery On Craigslist
Welcome to Dumbass Trump’s AmeriKKKa.

My Experience In The Border Patrol: Sexual Assault, Corruption, And Moral Failure

My Experience In The Border Patrol: Sexual Assault, Corruption, And Moral Failure

'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Deeply Unsettling but Not for the Reason You Might Think

May Day, Reinvigorated to Fight Dumbass Trump's Anti-Immigrant Policies

Wingnut Loons Rage Against Ivanka for Her 'Uncomfortable Embrace of Refugees'

Buzzfeed Writer Horrified to Learn that Kentucky Machete Attacker Was Her Online Troll

'The Purge' made him do it ...

The Surprising Thing Marijuana and Hot Peppers Have in Common

America’s Other Drug Problem

Fentanyl has claimed thousands of lives: What is it?

Climate Change as Genocide

A disturbing number of humpback whales are dying off the east coast

Female dragonflies are known to fake death just to avoid having sex

Animal Pictures


Saturday, April 29, 2017

The Daily Drift

Welcome to Today's Edition of
Carolina Naturally
Today happens to be National Herb Day ...!
 
Carolina Naturally is read in 210 countries around the world daily.   
   
Zen Meditation ... !
Today is - World Tai Chi Day 

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Today in History

313 Licinius unifies the whole of the eastern Roman Empire under his own rule.
1250 King Louis IX of France is ransomed.
1527 Henry VIII of England and King Francis of France sign the Treaty of Westminster.
1563 All Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI.
1725 Spain withdraws from the Quadruple Alliance.
1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first U.S. president.
1803 The United States doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase, which was sold by France for $15 million.
1812 Louisiana is admitted into the Union as a state.
1849 Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian patriot and guerrilla leader, repulses a French attack on Rome.
1864 Work begins on the Dams along the Red River, which will allow Union General Nathaniel Banks‘ troops to sail over the rapids above Alexandria, Louisiana.
1930 The Soviet Union proposes a military alliance with France and Great Britain.
1931 The George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opens.
1943 The British submarine HMS Seraph drops ‘the man who never was,’ a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.
1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker. Karl Donitz becomes his successor.
1968 U.S. Marines attack a division of North Vietnamese troops in the village of Dai Do.
1970 U.S. troops invade Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas.
1972 The North Vietnamese launch an invasion of the South.
1973 Nixon announces the resignation of Harry Robbins Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and other top aides.
1975
Saigon falls as North Vietnamese forces gain control of the city. The Vietnam War formally ends as South Vietnam unconditionally surrenders.
1980 Terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London.

Moving to States Where Marijuana Is Legal

Concertgoers Duped, Stranded and Growing Hungry on an Island in the Bahamas

Remembering the Insider Who Blew the Whistle on Corporate Greed

Homeless and Unemployed in an Economy We're Supposed to Think Is Liberating

American Media Continues to Ignore Historic Hunger Strike Underway in Israeli Prisons

No Vote On Dumbass TrumpCare 3.0 This Week

The Postal Service Is Doing Great

Perverse New Missouri Law Could Sentence Grade Schoolers to Four Years of Prison Time

Florida Principal at Majority Black School Told Staff to Put White Students in Same Class

Raving Conspiracy Nut Jones Loses Custody Of His Children

Raving Conspiracy Nut Alex Jones Loses Custody Of His Children
Karma plays her hand ...

Officers Deprive Man Water in Solitary for 7 Days And Dehydrate Him to Death

Anti-Immigrant Hotline Bombarded with Reports of Space Aliens

The Dumbass Trump Family's Massive Grift

The Fairytale Princess of False Feminism

Fox 'News' Now Being Investigated For Mail And Wire Fraud

Lock Them Up!
Lock Them Up! Fox News Now Being Investigated For Mail And Wire Fraud

'Law & Order' Rips Its Newest Episode Straight from the Headlines About The Fox 'News' Toxic Culture

O'Reilly's Fox 'News' Replacement Is a Favorite Television Personality of Neo-Nazis

Animal Pictures


Friday, April 28, 2017

The Daily Drift

Welcome to Today's Edition of
Carolina Naturally
Today happens to be Superhero Day ...!
 
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Plant a Tree ... !
Today is - Arbor Day 

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Today in History

357 Constantius II visits Rome for the first time.
1282 Villagers in Palermo lead a revolt against French rule in Sicily.
1635 Virginia Governor John Harvey is accused of treason and removed from office.
1760 French forces besieging Quebec defeat the British in the second Battle on the Plains of Abraham.
1788 Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution.
1789 The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh.
1818 President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1856 Yokut Indians repel an attack on their land by 100 would-be Indian fighters in California.
1902 Revolution breaks out in the Dominican Republic.
1910 The first night air flight is performed by Claude Grahame-White in England.
1916 British declare martial law throughout Ireland.
1919 Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute.
1920 Azerbaijan joins the Soviet Union.
1930 The first organized night baseball game is played in Independence, Kansas.
1932 A yellow fever vaccine for humans is announced.
1945 Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans.
1946 The Allies indict Tojo on 55 counts of war crimes
1947 Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia.
1953 French troops evacuate northern Laos.
1965 The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
1967
Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the U.S. Army after his local draft board rejects his application to be classified as a conscientious objector for religious reasons. (He is a Muslim.) Ali will subsequently be banned from boxing, stripped of his titles, and convicted of draft evasion. In 1971, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court will overturn his conviction
1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France.

Explosive Facts about Volcanoes


Volcanoes are cool, except when you're in danger of being killed by one. Well, maybe cool isn't the right word, because they're hot. John Green tells us all kinds of neat things about volcanoes in the latest episode of the mental_floss List Show.

The Movie Date That Solidified J.R.R. Tolkien’s Dislike of Walt Disney

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were friends and carried on epic literary and religious discussions. They also went to see Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, together in 1938 or '39. They hated it. Tolkien was particularly repulsed by how Disney portrayed dwarves.
Years later, in a 1964 letter to a Miss J.L. Curry at Stanford University, likely spurred on by the controversy surrounding Disney’s treatment of Mary Poppins, Tolkien further laid bare his true feelings on Disney’s work. He described Disney’s talent as “hopelessly corrupted,” writing, “Though in most of the ‘pictures’ proceeding from his studios there are admirable or charming passages, the effect of all of them is to me disgusting. Some have given me nausea…” He goes on to call Disney a “cheat,” noting that while he too had a profit motive behind his work, he wouldn’t stoop to working with Disney.
Read the particulars of Tolkien's and Lewis' criticism of Disney at Atlas Obscura.