CAROLINA NATURALLY: Nov 23, 2017

Thursday, November 23, 2017

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Today in History

1248		The city of Seville, Spain, surrenders to Ferdinand III of Castile after a two-year siege.
1785		John Hancock is elected president of the Continental Congress for the second time.
1808		French and Poles defeat the Spanish at Battle of Tudela.
1863		Union forces win the Battle of Orchard Knob, Tennessee.
1863		The Battle of Chattanooga, one of the most decisive battles of the American Civil War, begins (also in Tennessee).
1903		Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his American debut in a Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi’s Rigoletto.
1904		Russo-German talks break down because of Russia’s insistence on consulting France.
1909		The Wright brothers form a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of their airplanes.
1921		President Warren G. Harding signs the Willis-Campbell Act, better known as the anti-beer bill. It forbids doctors to prescribe beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.
1933		President Franklin D. Roosevelt recalls the American ambassador from Havana, Cuba, and urges stability in the island nation.
1934		The United States and Great Britain agree on a 5-5-3 naval ratio, with both countries allowed to build five million tons of naval ships while Japan can only build three. Japan will denounce the treaty.
1936		The United States abandons the American embassy in Madrid, Spain, which is engulfed by the civil war.
1941		U.S. troops move into Dutch Guiana to guard the bauxite mines.
1942		The film Casablanca premieres in New York City.
1943		U.S. Marines declare the island of Tarawa secure.
1945		Wartime meat and butter rationing ends in the United States.
1953		North Korea signs 10-year aid pact with Peking.
1968		Four men hijack Pan-Am Flight 281 , with 87 passengers, from Miami to Cuba.
1980		In Europe’s biggest earthquake since 1915, 3,000 people are killed in Italy.
1981		Reagan signs a top-secret directive giving the CIA authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1990		The first all-woman expedition to the South Pole sets off from Antarctica on the first part of a 70-day trip; the group includes 12 Russians, 3 Americans and 1 Japanese.
1992		The first Smartphone, IBM’s Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2005		Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia. She is the first woman to lead an African nation.
2006		In the second-deadliest day of sectarian violence in Iraq since the beginning of the 2003 war, 215 people are killed and nearly 260 injured by bombs in Sadr City.
2011		Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity; the agreement came after 11 months of protests.

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12 Therapeutic House Plants

12 Therapeutic House Plants That Can Boost Your Physical Health, Emotional Well-Being—and Even Your Brain Power

Egypt discovers ancient Roman treasure and 'royal head'

The Egyptian government announced Tuesday that archaeologists have uncovered three sunken, millennia-old shipwrecks off the country's north coast.
The wrecks, filled with ancient artifacts, are Roman and date back when the empire spread over Europe and North Africa.

Egypt discovers ancient Roman treasure and 'royal head'

Discovery of cigar-shaped asteroid from outer space could help unveil secrets of extrasolar worlds

It came from outer space … and went back there two weeks later, having astonished and excited astronomers and planetary scientists. A cigar-shaped object, less than half a kilometer long and barely bright enough to be detected by the world’s most powerful telescopes, payed us a flying visit in October this year – reminding us that the heavens still hold plenty of surprises.

Discovery of cigar-shaped asteroid from outer space could help unveil secrets of extrasolar worlds

Greed, Fear and Our Own Biases Blind Us to the Realities of Climate Change

How Greed, Fear and Our Own Biases Blind Us to the Realities of Climate Change

In These States, Past Marijuana Crimes Can Go Away

In These States, Past Marijuana Crimes Can Go Away

The Dumbass Trump Tax Plan Wants to Create a Nation of Idiots

The Dumbass Trump Tax Plan Wants to Create a Nation of Idiots

Twitter Confirms Maddow's Prediction: Ending Net Neutrality Is A Very Big Deal

Rachel called it Monday night. This is a very big, very bad, deal for anyone who uses the internet.

Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million Uber customers and drivers

Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million Uber customers and drivers — and the company hid it for a year

Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers, and concealed the breach for over a year, Bloomberg reports.

Telecom Industry Busted for a Secret Lobbying Campaign to Kill Net Neutrality

Has the Telecom Industry Just Been Busted for a Secret Lobbying Campaign to Kill Net Neutrality?

Man kicked off Greyhound bus because of his name

A PhD candidate who was traveling on a Greyhound bus from Dallas to a conference in Kansas City this month says he was was kicked off at 3 a.m. during a stop in Witchita because his name is Mohammad.

Man kicked off Greyhound bus because of his name

Cops charge mom with felony after she planted recorder in child’s backpack to collect evidence of bullying

Cops charge mom with felony after she planted recorder in child’s backpack to collect evidence of bullying

A Virginia mother who placed a recording device in her 9-year-old daughter’s backpack to help prove to school officials that she was being bullied has been charged by police with a felony.

School suspends teacher after he admits flunking students for sitting out the pledge

A New York school teacher has been suspended after he admitted giving two students failing grades ten years ago because they did not stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

School suspends teacher after he admits flunking students for sitting out the pledge

Clueless anti-LGBT cabal opens its conference with a rainbow flag interpretive dance

MassResistance, a notorious anti-LGBT cabal based in Massachusetts, recently opened up a conference with the curious decision to have a man perform an interpretive dance while holding two rainbow-colored flags.

WATCH: Clueless anti-LGBT cabal opens its conference with a rainbow flag interpretive dance

West Virginia Mormon cult sued for protecting youth leader accused of abusing toddlers since 2007

West Virginia Mormon cult sued for protecting youth leader accused of abusing toddlers since 2007

An LDS cult in Berkeley County, West Virginia has been hit with a massive lawsuit for allowing a pedophile to serve as a youth leader despite accusations of child molestation dating back to 2007.

Auburn University professor turned priest busted in massive Alabama child porn sting

Episcopal priest Rev. Michael Glenn Rich was one of two men arrested in a state operation to nab child predators.

Former Auburn University professor turned priest busted in massive Alabama child porn sting

Jim Crow Is Making a Furious Comeback

Robert Reich: Jim Crow Is Making a Furious Comeback

NY police union hopes for mass shooting at Brooklyn College

NY police union hopes for mass shooting at Brooklyn College after students complain about cops in bathrooms

Responding to a erroneous report in the New York Post that students at Brooklyn College want cops banned from the campus, a union representing the cops invoked mass shootings and terrorism.

Woman targeted by sheriff for her ‘fuck Trump’ sticker is now selling them

Woman targeted by sheriff for her ‘fuck Trump’ sticker is now selling them — and they’re going fast

The woman targeted by the Fort Bend County, Texas sheriff for her anti-Dumbass Trump truck sticker is now selling her wares online.

Giant concrete swastika discovered beneath German sports field

A massive concrete swastika was discovered in Germany last week while a construction crew was excavating a foundation for new locker rooms at an athletic field.

Giant concrete swastika discovered beneath German sports field

White nationalist Richard Spencer humiliated

White nationalist Richard Spencer humiliated as Maryland farm shuts down his event

The owners of Rocklands Farm in Poolesville, Maryland kicked the white nationalists out in the middle of their booking.

Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer banned from 26 European countries

Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer banned from 26 European countries for attempting to attend pro-white rally in Poland

White Nationalist Richard Spencer has been banned from 26 European countries for five years, the Polish news site Niezalenzna reported Monday.

Neo-Nazis are mourning 'great revolutionary' Charles Manson

After Charles Manson, pop culture’s favorite white supremacist cult leader, died late Sunday night, a majority of Americans praised the passing of the infamous swastika-tattooed figure. But some neo-Nazis who identified with Manson’s “Helter Skelter” vision of a post-race war white utopia were less celebratory.

Neo-Nazis are mourning 'great revolutionary' Charles Manson for his attempts to start a race war

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