Hawaii’s Sweetest Export
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Hoodie-Hoo Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Momona: Sweet PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Swit: Sweet HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Face as bright as the moon.“
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — No Mo’ Plastic Bag WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Shift Happens PODCAST OF THE WEEK — TWiT.TV UPCOMING EVENTS — Feb. 22: “Give Peace a Dance”
TODAY: Lunar Eclipse/Full Moon, 5:31PM
YESTERDAY: Barak Obama’s Sweet Hawaii Caucus Tsunami.
Read more … in the Honolulu Star Bulletin … in Slate Magazine
February 20, 1906: The Port of Kahului begins loading raw cane sugar into the American-Hawaiian Steamship The Nevadan. Over two days, loaders will put more than 5,000 tons of the Maui sweet stuff into the ship, which will be transported to the mainland, specifically, Crockett, California, where, for the first time, Hawaii sugar will be refined outside the territory.
The transport comes shortly after an agreement between the Territory and the United States is sealed, allowing for free, unfettered exchange of agricultural goods between the two, um, land masses.
The trade continues for nearly 20 years, when it becomes much more economically viable to process all sugar here on the islands.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — February 20th
- 1725: 10 sleeping Native Americans are killed and scalped by European settlers for the £100/scalp bounty
- 1792: President George Washington signs an act creating the U.S. Post Office
- 1809: The US Supreme Court rules that the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state
- 1839: US Congress prohibits dueling in the District of Columbia.
- 1895: Abolitionist Frederick Douglass die=s
- 1865: M.I.T. establishes the first U.S. collegiate architectural school
- 2005: Journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson shoots himself to death at age 67
BORN ON THIS DAY — February 20th
- 1902: Ansel Adams, landscape photographer
- 1916: Jackie Gleason, comedian/actor
- 1925: Robert Altman, movie director
- 1927: Roy Cohn, lawyer
- 1927: Sidney Poitier, actor
- 1937: Nancy Wilson, jazz singer
- 1941: Buffy Sainte-Marie, folk singer
- 1942: Peter Strauss, actor
- 1946: Brenda Blethyn, actress
- 1947: Jennifer O’Neill, actress
- 1950: Walter Becker, rock bassist
- 1954: Patty Hearst Shaw, famous kidnap hostage
- 1955: Kelsey Grammer, actor
- 1963: Charles Barkley, NBA forward
- 1966: Cindy Crawford, super model
- 1975: Brian Thomas Littrell, singer
- 1976: Kee Marcello, rocker
