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She’d been cutting and styling hair for the past four years. Now she was sure she’d seen everything her profession had to offer. But then she met her. She welcomed her into the salon with a smile, seeing another mess of hair waiting for her to conquer. But as she began listening to her story, she realized she might have bitten off more than she could chew.

Maria started working as a hairdresser well before she finished high school. She’d always had a knack for making people smile with their looks, and with hairdressing, she could do just that. She started helping out at her aunt’s salon for a quick buck in her senior year. Going to college, she knew she wanted to focus on hairdressing.

She had no idea how much impact it would have on her life. Two years later, Maria found employment as a hairstylist in her city. Her ultimate dream was to open her salon, where she could explore all that hairdressing had to offer. She’d worked for four years, seeing all the good and bad that came with her profession. She was confident she’d seen it all until that fateful Saturday morning.

That Saturday was a busy one for Maria and her colleagues. The salon was packed, with each stylist booked throughout the weekend. But as Maria was finishing up with one of her regulars, she noticed a teenage girl peeking through the windows. She paid her no mind, given that many people peeped in to see what was happening inside the salon. But what the girl did made Maria set aside her comb.

The girl, dressed in a pair of gray sweats and an oversized hoodie, stepped into the salon. She ran her blue eyes across the crowd, her hood over her head and her fingers fidgeting by her sides. Maria could tell she was nervous. She set her clippers aside and faced her with a smile, but the girl turned around and stormed out of the shop. “Excuse me, Lucy,” Maria apologized to her client and weaved through the busy salon into the streetREAD FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

 

“Hey,” she called out. The girl was almost turning a corner. “Come back,” Maria said. The girl stopped, turning around. There was apparent fear in her eyes, and her lips trembled. She looked away from Maria.

“Please come back,” Maria repeated, her lips curling again. She needed to know if the girl was all right. “What’s your name?” Maria asked when the girl walked back to her. The girl mumbled her name, and Maria shared hers. “Do you want to come in?” she asked. “We have milkshakes and great stories.”

Although the girl nodded and entered the shop, Maria could tell she was still uneasy. She escorted her through the many chairs, clients, and stylists. When the girl lowered her hood, Maria knew why she’d run away.

“Cut it all,” the girl said as Maria stared at her hair. It was matted and messy, with thick blobs that hadn’t seen a comb in a long while.

“Why do you want me to cut it?” Maria asked, already seeing that she’d have to clear her schedule for the rest of the day.

“Because it’s worthless,” said the girl. “I’m worthless.” Her eyes grew wet with tears. “Please cut it all.”

“Let’s take it slow,” Maria said soothingly. “We’ll start with a comb first, really work through the motions.” She broke a sweet smile. “We’ll use the clippers as a last resort, okay?” The girl looked at her quizzically but nodded.

“Why do you care?” she asked. What she said next made Maria’s heart rip into two. “Nobody ever cares,” the girl shared. She told Maria her life story, explaining how her mom passed away a few months ago. She’d been falling apart ever since, drowning in the darkness that was seemingly ever-present in her life. There were times she felt so down, neglected, and worthless that she couldn’t even brush her hair.

But why did she wish to cut it? “School’s around the corner,” said the girl. She’d need a new photo for the semester, and she couldn’t deal with the pain of combing her hair all out.

Listening to her story broke Maria’s heart. She cleared her entire weekend, squeezing in her clients to some colleagues. She sat with the girl throughout the day, powering through hours of combing and cleaning. Could she stop her from cutting her locks? READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

As the day ended, Maria turned the girl around in the mirror. They’d reduced what was once a mass of matted curls into a more manageable lump of tangled hair. The girl smiled her first smile of the day, but Maria knew they still had more work to do. She smiled back and asked the girl if she could return the next day. Maria rarely opened the salon on Sunday mornings, but this was a special occasion. She wasn’t sure the girl would show up, but as she pushed the door open, she saw her reflection behind her.

“Come in,” she chirped, ushering the girl into the salon. The girl dressed differently than the previous day. She’d swapped her sweatpants and hoodie for a flowing blue dress, and her dark hair was free. Did she seem happier? Maria would find out.

Maria picked up where she left off with the girl’s hair. She asked her what length she was comfortable with and her preferred styles. Although the girl was reluctant to talk sometimes, Maria thought she was exciting and lovely to talk to. They spent hours together. Maria found her to be delightful and was enjoying the work until she noticed a problem. While most of the huge blobs and matted portions of her hair had been fixed, there was still a lot of damage near the scalp. Maria frowned as she wondered how to proceed. They had made so much progress that Maria worried that the girl might slip back into her sadness and feel hopeless again if she mentioned it.

She came up with a plan instead. Maria knew she had to buy some time to make sure she could come up with a better solution. If she stared at the girl’s head for too long without working, she might get suspicious. Maria’s mind raced as she tried to think of ways to prolong the situation while she could work out what to do. Her fear was that if she couldn’t find a suitable fix, she’d end up having to resort to cutting after all.

Maria may have been successful in the hairstyling profession because she was talented. However, with Maria, her customers knew she rendered another service that was priceless. With her older clients, Maria always felt comfortable, and her added services flowed naturally. However, the girl’s issues and the weight she carried made it a tricky situation to navigate. Maria knew that if she could get the girl to open up a little more, she could look for common ground with her. She desperately wanted to help her more. She had proven easily scared before, so Maria knew she’d have to approach with caution. She took a deep breath and began asking her some questions to see how it went.

Maria was itching to learn more about her. She obviously carried around a lot on her shoulders, especially for someone so young. It pained Maria to know that the poor girl was going through so much. It was a lot to take for anyone in her position. However, Maria also had a personal reason for wanting to help. Her life hadn’t been easy for Maria either. She had grown up the hard way with very little money. She’d grown up needing to help her mom pay the bills for herself and three siblings. Leaving school at such a young age was a difficult choice. Maria had once had dreams and ambitions but was forced to put them aside for her family.

Then things got even harder. Maria’s mother had struggled through life. She faced obstacles throughout her life. When she was just 22, Maria’s father abandoned her and the children. Her mom had found a way to keep the family afloat, often working three jobs to make ends meet. Life seemed to just be turning a corner for the family, but then tragedy struck. Maria was only 17 when her mom got sick. Losing her mom to illness at such a young age was the most difficult thing Maria had ever endured. It was many years ago, but she still felt the pain daily.

Maria realized now why she had felt an instant connection to the girl as she stared at the damaged roots of her hair. She knew she had to help her somehow. Maria changed tack at that moment. Rather than asking the girl to open up and risk her feeling uncomfortable, Maria decided to speak about her past instead. While the girl was occupied hearing about Maria’s own tragic childhood, Maria used this time to figure out a solution for her hair.

As she spoke, an idea soon came to her. Maria realized that the last clumps of matted hair were too small and delicate to extract without hurting the girl. However, if left that way, they could also grow out and mess up her hair again. Maria realized that if she could delicately apply a relaxer treatment to those portions, it would untangle the hair for her. It wouldn’t be easy, though. Maria knew that relaxers contained harmful chemicals. They weren’t meant to be applied directly to the scalp, so she’d have to be extremely careful.

Getting together some tools of her trade, she mixed some of the treatment and began carefully applying it to the affected areas. It was a stressful situation. Maria kept the girl engaged in conversation as she executed her plan with the delicacy of a surgeon. Luckily, being so good at what she did, Maria could work in the relaxer without getting any of it on the girl’s scalp. With bated breath, she allowed it to settle and waited. At last, she saw it beginning to work. She turned the girl toward her and smiled as she told her the news.

The relaxer worked a treat and had automatically unmatted the portions of her hair that would have been too tricky to do by hand. Amazingly, after the state of her

hair when she first came in, it was now completely transformed from roots to tips. Maria told her the good news. Unexpectedly, the girl’s eyes welled up, and she began crying. Maria expected her to be happy and had no idea what was wrong. When the girl calmed down and explained, Maria was relieved. They were tears of happiness as the girl said how grateful she was. No one had ever shown her this much kindness before. Maria was ecstatic.

She finished the last bit of the marathon job. Now that the girl’s hair was beautiful and manageable again, all that was left was the styling. When she was done, the girl gasped with shock. Maria brought the girl a mirror. She trimmed the hair above the girl’s shoulders, curled the ends, and added slight shades of sandy brown to complement the girl’s golden bronze color. The girl ran a hand against her hair, sifting through the soft curls. Her lips curved ever so slightly, her eyes budding with tears. She looked up at Maria and smiled. “I’ll actually smile for my school pictures,” she said. “You made me feel like me again.”

In the end, Maria managed to get the girl’s hair back to normal and gave her a free makeover too. Brimming with renewed confidence, she was the star of picture day. After hearing Maria’s story, she and the girl became close friends. Maria spoke to her boss, and they allowed her to come to the salon after school to work as an apprentice stylist. After all she had lost in life, her makeover ended up giving her new hair and a newfound hope to change her life.

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His parents threw him out of the house because he was gay

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We believe all people deserve an equal chance – no matter their gender, sexual orientation or skin color.

And the thought that a parent, or parents, would throw their son or daughter out of the house just because they are gay – is simply unacceptable.

Unfortunately, this was Jonathan Allen’s fate. When he turned 18, exactly on the day of his birthday, he was thrown out of the house by his parents who did not accept his sexual orientation. So he gathered his things and left the house…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

But he stayed strong and found a new place to live. Two years later, Jonathan was on the big stage of the popular TV show America’s Got Talent. And all we can say is that we hope his parents watched the show.

Jonathan gave a tremendous performance, showing the whole world what an amazing voice he has. This is certainly sweet revenge!

Listen for yourself, and share the story if you also agree that no one should be discriminated against based on their sexual orientation. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

Jonathan starts singing at minute 2:55 of the video:

Don’t forget to share with your friends and family if you too thought Jonathan had a rare talent.

 

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See What Hitler did when he learned that Mussolini had been captured and executed by his own people during World War 2

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The photo above shows Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci in a Milan morgue. After being hanged upside down from a gas station girder, some gentle soul arranged them in a familial, loving pose.

Adolf Hitler would have heard reports about the Duce’s death and accounts of the Italian mob beating, kicking, and urinating on his corpse before the hanging display. Isolated in an underground Berlin bomb shelter, Hitler would not have seen the grisly pictures before his own suicide two days later and only after he showed an awareness of decency by wedding his own mistress Eva Braun…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

After Berlin surrendered on May 2, 1945, the Soviets claimed that Hitler escaped. They would point fingers at potential havens like Spain and Argentina. Several years later, Hitler’s dental assistant was released from Russian custody and the West learned that, as early as May 11, the Soviets had pieces of Hitler’s dental work; forensic evidence, a positive indentification. A suspicious Stalin pretended not to notice. Much later, a part of Hitler’s skull, found on May 5, became public and it also rests in a Russian archive. So in May, 1945, Russian intelligence services believed they had conclusive proof that Hitler died while Stalin played a disingenuous game.

When Hitler first heard of Mussolini’s death, he turned to his factotum SS Maj. Otto Günsche and asked him to dispose of his body. He also talked about various methods of suicide when conversing with Eva Braun and his female secretaries.

Mussolini’s demise alone didn’t move him toward an anonymous death. Hitler considered himself representative of Germany, a symbol, like a flag, that should never be captured. He knew the Russians wanted to take him alive to Moscow where he expected to be treated “like a caged animal in a zoo.” READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

In the end, he used a double sure method, pulling a gun’s trigger aimed at his right temple while simultaneously biting down on a cyanide capsule. Mrs. Hitler only used poison because she wanted to remain a beautiful corpse. It worked as planned since they had tested the prussic acid on the family’s German Shepard dog named Blondi.

When the time came, Günsche received around 20 jerrycans of fuel, carried the couple upstairs from the bunker and began the cremation. He trusted incoming Russian artillery fire would do the rest.

After 11 years of Soviet captivity, including physical abuse, Günsche returned home satisfied he did a good job. He thought the beatings were because the Russians found nothing, believing that they wanted him to prove that Hitler died by showing them where he hid the corpse. He was probably tortured for fun, since the Soviet secret services already held forensic evidence of Hitler’s death.

Günsche, released from custody, May 2, 1956

 

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Meet Bishop Ajayi Crowther: First Christian Cleric Who Translates Bible To Yoruba, And How He Died

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Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c. 1809–31 December 1891), was a Yoruba linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria. Born in Osogun (in what is now Iseyin Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria), he and his family were captured by Fulani slave raiders when he was twelve.

They were freed from slavery at a coastal port by the Royal Navy, which was enforcing the ban against the Atlantic slave trade. The liberated peoples were resettled in Sierra Leone. There Ajayi adopted an English name of Samuel Crowther, and began his education in English…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

He adopted Christianity and also identified with Sierra Leone’s ascendant Creole ethnic group. He studied languages and was ordained as a minister in England, where he later received a doctoral degree from Oxford University. He prepared a Yoruba grammar and translation of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer into Yoruba, also working on a Yoruba version of the Bible, as well as other language projects.

A direct descendant of King Abiodun,Ajayi was 12 years old when he and his family were captured, along with his entire village, by Muslim Fulani slave raiders in 1821 and sold to Portuguese slave traders. (His mother, toddler brother, and other family members were among the captives.)

The British had outlawed the Atlantic slave trade in the early 19th century and used its navy to patrol the coast of Africa. Before the slave ship left port for the Americas (where Spain and Portugal still had slavery in their colonies), it was boarded by crew from a British Royal Navy ship under the command of Captain Henry Leeke.

They freed the captives, and took Ajayi and his family to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where they were resettled by local authorities.

While in Sierra Leone, Crowther was cared for by the Anglican Church Missionary Society (CMS) and was taught English. He converted to Christianity. On 11 December 1825 he was baptized. He named himself after Samuel Crowther, vicar of Christ Church, Newgate, London, and one of the pioneers of the CMS. Ajayi was baptized by John Raban.

In Niger Territory, 1888
While in Freetown, Crowther became interested in languages. In 1826 he was taken to England to attend the school of St Mary’s Church in Islington, which had established a connection with free Africans in the 18th century. He returned to Freetown in 1827.

He was the first student admitted to the newly opened Fourah Bay College, an Anglican missionary school. Because of his interest in language, he studied Latin and Greek of the classical curriculum, but also Temne of West Africa. After completing his studies, Crowther began teaching at the school.

Crowther married a schoolmistress, Asano (i.e. Hassana; she was formerly Muslim), baptised Susan. She had been liberated from the same Portuguese slave ship as Ajayi, and was among the captives resettled in Sierra Leone. She had also converted to Christianity. Their several children included Dandeson Coates Crowther, who later entered the ministry and in 1891 became archdeacon of the Niger Delta.

Susan and Crowther’s second daughter, Abigail, married Thomas Babington Macaulay, a junior associate.Their son and Crowther’s grandson, Herbert Macaulay, became one of the first Nigerian nationalists. He played an important role in ending British colonial rule in Nigeria.

MISSION

Crowther was selected to accompany the missionary James Schön on the Niger expedition of 1841.Together with Schön, he was expected to learn Hausa for use on the expedition. Its goal was to stimulate commerce, teach agricultural techniques, encourage Christianity, and help end the slave trade.

Following the expedition, Crowther was recalled to England, where he was trained as a minister and ordained by the Bishop of London. Schön wrote to the Church Missionary Society noting Crowther’s usefulness and ability on the expedition, recommending that he be prepared for ordination. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

Crowther returned to Africa in 1843 and, with Henry Townsend, opened a mission in Abeokuta, in today’s Ogun State, Nigeria.

Crowther began translating the Bible into Yoruba and compiling a Yoruba dictionary. In 1843, his grammar book was published, which he had begun working on during the Niger expedition. A Yoruba version of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer followed later. Crowther also compiled A Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language,including a large number of local proverbs, published in London in 1852.

He also began codifying other languages. Following the British Niger Expeditions of 1854 and 1857, Crowther, assisted by a young Igbo interpreter named Simon Jonas, produced a primer for the Igbo language in 1857. He published one for the Nupe language in 1860, and a full grammar and vocabulary of Nupe in 1864.

Crowther had become a close associate and friend of Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, an influential politician, mariner, philanthropist and industrialist in colonial Lagos.The two men collaborated on social initiatives in Lagos, such as the founding of The Academy (a social and cultural center for public enlightenment) on 24 October 1866. Crowther was the first patron and Captain J.P.L Davies was the first president.

MERITS

In 1864, Crowther was ordained as the first African bishop of the Anglican Church; he was consecrated a bishop on St Peter’s day 1864, by Charles Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury at Canterbury Cathedral.He had continued his studies and later received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Oxford.

He later met Queen Victoria and read the Lord’s prayer to her in the Nigerian language of Yoruba, which she described as soft and melodious.

In March 1881, he and his son Dandeson attended a conference on the island of Madeira, in the Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco. Crowther had begun to work in languages other than Yoruba, but he continued to supervise the translation of the Yoruba Bible (Bibeli Mimọ), which was completed in the mid-1880s, a few years before his death.

Crowther is celebrated with a feast on the liturgical calendar of some Anglican churches, including the Episcopal Church (United States) and the Church of Nigeria,on 31 December.

DEATH, BURIAL, EXHUMATION & REBURIAL

Crowther died of a stroke in Lagos on 31 December 1891. He was buried at Ajele Cemetery in Lagos.

In 1971 the Lagos State Government under Mobolaji Johnson wanted to redevelop the site of the cemetery for new government offices and issued notices to families of the deceased. Seth Kale, Anglican Bishop of Lagos, representing the Anglican community and Crowther’s family, delayed exhumation and reburial until 1976.

An elaborate ceremony was held at a new burial site and a cenotaph was installed at Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos

 

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