Welcome to Today's Edition of
Carolina Naturally
Carolina Naturally
Carolina Naturally is read in 210 countries around the world daily.
Formal Occasions ... !
You want the unvarnished truth?
Don't forget to visit: The Truth Be Told
Monday, August 28, 2017
The Daily Drift
You want the unvarnished truth?
Today in History
| 1676 | Indian chief King Philip, also known as Metacom, is killed by English soldiers, ending the war between Indians and colonists. | |
| 1862 | Mistakenly believing the Confederate Army to be in retreat, Union General John Pope attacks, beginning the Battle of Groveton. Both sides sustain heavy casualties. | |
| 1914 | Three German cruisers are sunk by ships of the Royal Navy in the Battle of Heligoland Bight, the first major naval battle of World War I. | |
| 1938 | The first degree given to a ventriloquist’s dummy is awarded to Charlie McCarthy–Edgar Bergen’s wooden partner. The honorary degree, “Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback,” is presented on radio by Ralph Dennis, the dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern University. | |
| 1941 | The German U-boat U-570 is captured by the British and renamed Graph | |
| 1944 | German forces in Toulon and Marseilles, France, surrender to the Allies. | |
| 1945 | Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung arrives in Chunking to confer with Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek in a futile effort to avert civil war. | |
| 1963 | One of the largest demonstrations in the history of the United States, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, takes place and reaches its climax at the base of the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I have a dream” speech. | |
| 1965 | The Viet Cong are routed in the Mekong Delta by U.S. forces, with more than 50 killed. | |
| 1968 | A clash between police and anti-war demonstrators during the Democratic Party’s National Convention in Chicago takes place. | |
| 1979 | An Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb explodes under a bandstand in Brussels’ Great Market as British Army musicians prepare for a performance; four British soldiers are wounded. | |
| 1981 | John Hinckley Jr. pleads not guilty to attempting to assassinate Reagan. | |
| 1982 | The first Gay Games are held, in San Francisco. | |
| 1983 | Israeli’s prime minister Menachem Begin announces his resignation. | |
| 1986 | Bolivian president Victor Paz Estenssoro declares a state of siege and uses troops and tanks to halt a march by 10,000 striking tin miners. | |
| 1986 | US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is given a 365-year prison term for spying for the USSR. | |
| 1993 | Two hundred twenty-three die when a dam breaks at Qinghai (Kokonor), in northwest China. | |
| 2003 | A power blackout affects a half-million people in southeast England and halts 60% of London’s underground trains. | |
| 2005 | Hurricane Katrina reaches Category 5 strength; the Louisiana Superdome is opened as a “refuge of last resort” in New Orleans. | |
| 2012 | The wingnut coven nominates Romney as the cabal’s pretender candidate. |
By day they were pastors — by night sex gurus
Pastor Michael Smith entered ministry at 16 years old. While other kids
his age were partying and exploring the dating world, he was being a
loyal servant to the cult. He never saw himself becoming a sex guru.
Priest says he collected child porn to get revenge on Dog for poker losses
A New Jersey priest was trying to get revenge on Dog for poker losses when he collected computerized child pornography at his weekend home in Pennsylvania. 
‘He has countless amounts of money’
American Airlines refuses to let woman with oxygen tank board flight
White supremacists and Islamist extremists have a lot in common
Disgusting Dumbass Trump Is Using Hurricane As An Opportunity To Deport People
This monster sinks to a new low every time we turn around.
How a snake-eating hawk started a huge Montana wildfire
Earlier this week, a fire blazed through about 40 acres of Montana
grassland. For about an hour, the flames burned across the dry landscape
in the northern part of the state, about 155 miles south of the
Canadian border. The cause was a mystery until volunteer firefighters
finally found the crisped culprit. When firefighters found the burnt
body of a hawk clutching a snake, they knew they'd found the spark. 
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
