CAROLINA NATURALLY: Oct 30, 2017

Monday, October 30, 2017

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Today in History

1270		The Seventh Crusade ends by the Treaty of Barbary.
1485		Henry VII of England is crowned.
1697		The Treaty of Ryswick ends the war between France and the Grand Alliance.
1838		Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Lorain County, Ohio becomes the first college in the U.S. to admit female students.
1899		Two battalions of British troops are cut off, surrounded and forced to surrender to General Petrus Joubert’s Boers at Nicholson’s Nek.
1905		The czar of Russia issues the October Manifesto, granting civil liberties and elections in an attempt to avert the burgeoning support for revolution.
1918		The Italians capture Vittorio Veneto and rout the Austro-Hungarian army.
1918		Turkey signs an armistice with the Allies, agreeing to end hostilities at noon, October 31.
1922		Mussolini sends his black shirts into Rome. The Fascist takeover is almost without bloodshed. The next day, Mussolini is made prime minister. He centralizes all power in himself as leader of the Fascist party and attempts to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitler‘s Germany.
1925		Scotsman John L. Baird performs first TV broadcast of moving objects.
1938		H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds is broadcast over the radio by Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre. Many panic believing it is an actual newscast about a Martian invasion.
1941		The U.S. destroyer Reuben James, on convoy duty off Iceland, is sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of 96 Americans.
1942		Lieutenant Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier, and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board the sinking submarine U-559, capturing code books that will help British code-breakers at Bletchley Park crack the German naval “Shark” Enigma cipher.
1950		The First Marine Division is ordered to replace the entire South Korean I Corps at the Chosin Reservoir area.
1953		US Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves a top secret document to maintain and expand the country’s nuclear arsenal.
1961		The USSR detonates “Tsar Bomba,” a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb; it is still (2016) the largest explosive device of any kind over detonated.
1965		US Marines repel multiple-wave attacks by the Viet Cong within a few miles of Da Nang where the Marines are based; a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old boy who had been selling the Americans drinks the previous day.
1973		The Bosphorus Bridge is completed at Istanbul, Turkey, connecting Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus Strait.
1974		The “Rumble in the Jungle,” a boxing match in Zaire that many regard as the greatest sporting event of the 20th century, takes place; challenger Muhammad Ali knocks out previously undefeated World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman.
1975		Prince Juan Carlos becomes acting head of state in Spain, replacing the ailing dictator Gen. Francisco Franco.
1985		The Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for its final successful mission.
1991		BET Holdings Inc., becomes the first African-American company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
2005		The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (Cult of Our Lady) that was destroyed during the firebombing of Dresden in WWII is rededicated.

Obama has been called up for jury duty

President Barack Obama is being called up to participate in one of the most important tasks that a civilian can be summoned to perform: jury service.
In fact, he will be a willing juror in court, according to reports.
After eight years as president, Obama will now take on a new job and will become an unbiased juror in an as yet unidentified case.
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans told officials on Friday that Obama had been called up for the civilian service next month in Illinois, the state where he served as a senator.

'Regular guy' Obama has been called up for jury duty

Century after 1917 revolution, some Russians crave return of a tsar

Mikhail Ustinov’s ancestors were executed in 1917 for supporting the tsar but a hundred years later the 68-year-old yearns for the return of monarchy to Russia.

Century after 1917 revolution, some Russians crave return of a tsar

Fermented Foods to Boost Digestion and Health

8 Fermented Foods to Boost Digestion and Health

Things You Should Never Put In A Salad If You're Trying To Lose Weight

7 Things You Should Never Put In A Salad If You're Trying To Lose Weight

Not all salads are created equal.

Ways To Be A Sex-Positive Parent Without Making Things Weird

9 Ways To Be A Sex-Positive Parent Without Making Things Weird

We asked sex experts for their best advice.

SIDS Is Every Mom's Worst Nightmare

SIDS Is Every Mom's Worst Nightmare—Here's What You Need To Know About It

There are things you can do to prevent it.

Why were California's wine country fires so destructive?

As of late October more than a dozen wildfires north of San Francisco had killed more than 40 people, burned approximately 160,000 acres and destroyed more than 7,000 structures.
This tragic loss of life and property is unprecedented in California. However, the fires are not anomalous events in terms of their size, intensity or the speed with which they spread. Indeed, the path of the destructive Tubbs fire in Napa and Sonoma counties mirrors that of the Hanley fire of 1964. This extreme wind-driven fire burned under similar conditions, across much of the same landscape and covered an area substantially greater than the recent Tubbs fire.

Why were California's wine country fires so destructive?

Wildfires devastate California marijuana farmers

Cheryl Dumont knew just where she had buried the gold and silver coins: down a ravine from her home by a big Douglas fir.
After Dumont lost her entire marijuana crop, her income for the year, she was anxious to see whether that savings had survived the Redwood fire.
She hiked down to the tree with a shovel and started digging for the plastic box holding the coins. Two feet deep she found what a week before was worth $40,000. It was a melted mess of gold, silver, plastic, dirt and pine needles.
She was among hundreds of growers — big and small, fully permitted, semi-legal and pure outlaw — devastated by the fires in Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino counties.
Their losses illustrate how, despite new laws to make the marijuana industry legal in California, many farmers remain uninsured and trapped in a cash economy that leaves them vulnerable to natural disasters.

Wildfires devastate California marijuana farmers -- who don't have banks or insurance

How to Educate Young People About Drugs

Expert Marsha Rosenbaum on How to Educate Young People About Drugs

Texas broadcaster apologizes for slurring black high school football players as ‘Cougroes’

Texas broadcaster apologizes for slurring black high school football players as ‘Cougroes’

An announcer of Texas high school football games has apologized after being fired for using a racial slur against a rival team and making fun of a cheerleader’s weight.

Brawl between white nationalists and interracial couple leaves woman bloodied

Brawl between white nationalists and interracial couple leaves woman bloodied after Tennessee circle jerk

In video posted to Twitter by a reporter from Mic, a fight broke out between an interracial couple and a gang of white nationalists outside of a Tennessee restaurant leaving the woman bleeding from her face.

Bezos-Owned Washington Post Is Publishing Amazon Press Releases and Pretending It's Journalism

Whaddya Know, the Bezos-Owned Washington Post Is Publishing Amazon Press Releases and Pretending It's Journalism

Judge calls victim of sexual assault 'overweight'

A judge in Canada is being slammed for saying a 17-year-old “overweight” girl probably enjoyed attention from the 49-year-old man who sexually assaulted her.
Judge Jean-Paul Braun said these comments during trial, where he found taxi driver Carlo Figaro guilty of sexually assaulting the girl, who was his passenger, back in 2015, CBC News reported.

Judge calls victim of sexual assault 'overweight'