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On this day in 2020, students across the Triangle began their first day at school sitting alone in their houses, staring at a computer monitor, confined to online-only education as the COVID-19 pandemic persisted.
More than two-thirds of North Carolina’s 1.5 million students started classes online, including all public school children in Wake, Durham and Orange counties.
And right away, many faced glitches logging on to the state’s NCEdCloud computer system — the first of many headaches to come before students returned to class wearing masks.
“Sometimes it’s kind of annoying to just only have virtual,” sixth-grader Harper Grimmett told The N&O. “Because sometimes it messes up. It lags. No one lags in real life.
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A 73-year-old widower in Scotland County placed an advertisement in the local newspaper seeking a woman of temperate habits and Christian beliefs to become his new bride. J.T. Rowell included a picture of himself wearing bib overalls in front of his farm house.
Lucy Bell Hullett, also 73, responded, though the ad sought a much-younger woman, and she was, by her own description, “ugly as homemade sin.” Sin not withstanding, the two were soon wed. “All a young woman would want is his money,” she said. “Like the Bible says, ‘All that glitters is not gold.’ “
Police searched the state for a set of bandits who robbed two taxi drivers and an Army sergeant in and around Wake County, leaving them naked or nearly nude by the side of the highway. The soldier was left with just his underwear while a Raleigh taxi driver made his way home wearing just a pair of socks. The second taxi driver, robbed 35 miles south of Raleigh, made do in his birthday suit.
In 1926, searchers using bloodhounds recovered a Raleigh man who got lost in the woods outside Asheville and wandered alone for more than 38 hours. Alfred Mennell had been setting up a “treasure hunt” for a boys’ camp in the mountains when a rattlesnake frightened him off the trail. Rescuers found Mennell “a complete wreck” and 15 miles off-course, his clothes torn to shreds.
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