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Sunday, April 30, 2017
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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. | |
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| 1980 | Terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London. |
Saturday, April 29, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Carolina Naturally is read in 210 countries around the world daily.
Zen Meditation ... !
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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 | |
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| 1980 | Terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London. |
Friday, April 28, 2017
The Daily Drift
Welcome to Today's Edition of
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Carolina Naturally is read in 210 countries around the world daily.
Plant a Tree ... !
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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. | |
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| 1969 | Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France. |
Explosive Facts about Volcanoes
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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.
Read the particulars of Tolkien's and Lewis' criticism of Disney at Atlas Obscura.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.
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