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Today in History

363		Roman Emperor Julian dies, ending the Pagan Revival.
1096		Peter the Hermit‘s crusaders force their way across Sava, Hungary.
1243		The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor is wiped out by the Mongols.
1541		Former followers murder Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish Conqueror of Peru.
1794		The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus.
1804		The Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
1844		Julia Gardiner and President John Tyler are married in New York City.
1862		General Robert E. Lee attacks George McClellan‘s line at Mechanicsville during the Seven Days’ campaign.
1863		Jubal Early and his Confederate forces move into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1900		The United States announces it will send troops to fight against the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1907		Russia’s nobility demands drastic measures be taken against revolutionaries.
1908		Shah Muhammad Ali’s forces squelch the reform elements of Parliament in Persia.
1916		Russian General Aleksei Brusilov renews his offensive against the Germans.
1917		General Pershing arrives in France with the American Expeditionary Force.
1918		The Germans begin firing their huge 420 mm howitzer, “Big Bertha,” at Paris.
1926		A memorial to the first U.S. troops in France is unveiled at St. Nazaire.
1924		After eight years of occupation, American troops leave the Dominican Republic.
1942		The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter flies for the first time.
1945		The U.N. Charter is signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, California.
1951		The Soviet Union proposes a cease-fire in the Korean War.
1961		A Kuwaiti vote opposes Iraq’s annexation plans.
1963		President John Kennedy announces “Ich bin ein Berliner” at the Berlin Wall.
1971		The U.S. Justice Department issues a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers.
1975		Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is convicted of election fraud.
1993		Roy Campanella, legendary catcher for the Negro Leagues and the Los Angeles Dodgers, dies.

Editorial Comment

We have been a source for truth, honesty, mirth and serious subject matter for quite a spell now on events and happenings around the world.
We will continue to be so, but we will try to focus a bit more on North Carolina, we are CAROLINA NATURALLY after all.
Our growing readership likes our positive message and our spotlighting the evils of the lunatic fringe.
We have been awarded many accolades for our unwillingness to be browbeaten by hate and hatemongers and relentlessly exposing them.
Fact is some of the most hateful - as listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) - are completely frustrated at their severe lack of ability to pervert this blog and our excellent record of prosecuting their hatred with a extremely high incarceration rate for those who have attempted to pervert this blog.
With a refocus on things North Carolina we intend to have more 'less severe' post topics while continuing to post topics of great interest and importance.

To celebrate this new focus we have an extended issue of CAROLINA NATURALLY today.

When Did You Know She Was "The One"?

The question was, Married men of Reddit: what moment with your future wife made you think "Yup, I'm asking this girl to marry me."? The thread is full of love stories that show how consideration and self-sacrifice mean so much more than looks, money, or fun. Sully1102's story is touching.

Things were going really well, and I was saying to myself "If this keeps up, I think next summer I'll pop the question."
Then, my mother had a stroke. We were all sitting in the waiting area outside the ICU, because only 2 people were allowed in at a time. It was my now-wife's birthday, and a Wednesday, and she didn't hesitate to take the day off to sit with me and my family.
I went to visit my father at home, and she came with me. Her Italian instincts kicked it, and she brought a load of groceries and a lasagna with her.
My father was a mess at the hospital, and it fell on me and my siblings to speak with the doctors and make plans.
I would get home, and pour myself some bourbon. She made me dinner, and just sat with me while I silently sobbed.
It wasn't about how great we were when things were good, it was about how perfect she was when things were bad.
I bought the ring 2 months later.

Danger0clock had a short but meaningful story.

The day she took off work to help me go through a dumpster. I had accidentally thrown my keys in the trash while cleaning out my car.

Yeah, they found the keys, but it took a couple of hours. There are plenty of other stories in the thread, and also at Metafilter.

A Real Lunch Break

Why You Should Take a Real Lunch Break

Court rules that 4 million people can sue Huckabee over robocalls promoting 'christian' film

Court rules that 4 million people can sue Huckabee over robocalls promoting 'christian' film

Approximately 4 million people who received robocalls from Huckabee (r-AR) promoting the 'christian' holiday film “Last Ounce of Courage” are eligible to join a class action suit, the Daily Beast reported Saturday night.

As drought looms, could this team of scientists prove cloud seeding works?

THE RESEARCHERS HAD ALREADY DONE FOUR FLIGHTS, earlier in January, before they saw the first hints of what they were looking for. The crew of meteorologists, atmospheric scientists, and students had converged near Idaho’s Snake River Basin, a horseshoe-shaped depression between ranges of the Rocky Mountains that is 125 miles at its widest point. Most of the state’s famous spuds come from this arable land. Each day that the weather was right—clouds containing the perfect amount of super-cooled moisture at the ideal temperature and altitude— the team flew up into the fluff, dropped silver iodide, and watched to see if they were making more snow than there would’ve been if they’d stayed home and hung on to their silver.
It’s called cloud seeding. And people have been planting little chemical seeds into puffy white masses, hoping to change the weather, for some 70 years. But after all that time, no one knows for sure how well it actually works: when or even if the practice makes more snow fall, or how. That’s what the team behind SNOWIE—an acronym for Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds: the Idaho Experiment—had come to find out.

As drought looms, could this team of scientists prove cloud seeding works? 

Sustainable Fashion Brands

10 Sustainable Fashion Brands That Will Keep You—and Planet Earth—Looking Good

Make your brain become mentally stronger

I don’t think mental toughness is something you are born with, and I strongly believe it’s something we can all learn along the journey. 

How to make your brain become mentally stronger

Here’s what nobody ever tells you about Lasik eye surgery

Here’s what nobody ever tells you about Lasik eye surgery

I do wish someone, anyone, warned me of what the first 24 hours after having lasers shot in your eyes feels like.

What happens when the federal government eliminates health coverage?

After much secrecy and no public deliberation, Senate Republicans finalized release their “draft” repeal and replace bill for the Affordable Care Act on June 22. Unquestionably, the released “draft” will not be the final version.

What happens when the federal government eliminates health coverage? Lessons from the past

Why did Amazon buy Whole Foods?

The century-long interplay between technology and retail suggests Walmart is screwed. Its efforts to morph into an online retailer by buying Bonobos and Jet.com will end up making the company seem like Michael Jordan playing baseball—what made it great at one thing doesn’t translate to another.
At the same time, Amazon is marching through the retail sector with the ruthlessness of General Sherman taking out Georgia, remaking shopping in its image. When the company said it will buy Whole Foods, we could imagine the combination resulting in futuristic drone-delivered Veganic Sprouted Ancient Maize Flakes, even though Amazon has said almost nothing about what it will do with the high-end grocer. (Please, at least introduce a new meat called Amazon Prime Rib.)
Long before Amazon, tech shaped retail, and that history gives us a hint of what’s to come. Start back at the founding of Sears, in 1893. For its initial 30 years, Sears was solely a mail-order company, relying on the U.S. Postal Service and railroads for delivery. But the automobile was emerging as a new technology that would change society and alter the way people shop. There was now a relatively easy way to go to a store many miles away and bring items home. Sears’s big innovation was to build big stores that catered to customers arriving in cars. It opened its first store in Chicago in 1925 and built stores across the country as the economy boomed in the two decades after World War II, luring shoppers who would drive in from newly built suburbs. By exploiting the tech of automobiles, Sears reigned as the nation’s largest retailer into the 1980s.

Why did Amazon buy Whole Foods? It crushed Walmart

Totally Innocent Things That Were Still Censored

When you look at this image, do you see George Washington nobly crossing the Delaware? Or do you see him showing off his erect penis? Well, one superintendent in the Muscogee County school district saw an erect penis and believed that for the good of his students, the painting featured in 2000 of his district's textbooks needed to be censored, so he had an art teacher paint over the offensive area in each of the books.

And that's just one example of absolutely ridiculous examples of censorship featured on this TopTenz article. Also of note is the fact that Hitchcock actually had to fight to keep a toilet flush in the movie Psycho.
So don't miss 10 examples of innocent things being censored here.

ATMs in Cults Across the US?

ATMs in Cults Across the US? Why Cash Is Considered Sacred

‘Do you have a pulse?’

‘Do you have a pulse?’: Couple accidentally streamed heroin overdose on Facebook Live

In North Carolina, 'No' During Sex Doesn't Always Mean No

In North Carolina, 'No' During Sex Doesn't Always Mean No

Teenage Boys Wear Skirts to School to Protest Against 'No Shorts' Policy

Teenage Boys Wear Skirts to School to Protest Against 'No Shorts' Policy

‘I thought they were going to gun us down’

‘I thought they were going to gun us down’: White nationalists disrupt Florida racial justice seminar

A group of white supremacists barged into a racial justice training course in south Florida on Saturday, frightening organizers and attendees — who believed they were about to get shot in a Dylann Roof-style assault.

Tired Of Bigotry, California Enacts Travel Ban To Dumbass Trump Country

Tired Of Bigotry, California Enacts Travel Ban To Dumbass Trump Country

The ban is a reaction to past and recent legislation that would allow people to discriminate against LGBTQ people wanting to adopt and foster children among other forms of discrimination.

Suicide bomber planning to attack Mecca's Grand Mosque blew himself up

In what could have been a major attack on the largest mosque in the world, authorities in Saudi Arabia prevented it when security forces surrounded a house where a potential attacker was hiding, officials said. At least 11 people, including five policemen, were wounded when the suspect blew himself up in a nearby neighborhood after the security forces , Saudi interior ministry said, according to reports.  Five people, including one woman who were suspected to be involved in the attack plot were arrested. The attack was planned by three groups — two based in Mecca and one based in Jeddah — the ministry said, according to reports.
Some images were circulated on social media which showed an alley filled with bricks and debris apparently from a blast.

Suicide bomber planning to attack Mecca's Grand Mosque blew himself up