Hope Springs Eternal
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Be Humble Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mana’olana: Hope PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Hop: Hope HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —“Life is placed where it can take only a brief flight.“
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”
YESTERDAY: A Reason for HopeRead The Maui News editorial …
February 19, 2008: Maui and Hawaii voters statewide turned out in record-breaking numbers to participate in Tuesday’s Democratic Party caucuses, which gave Barack Obama an overwhelming victory by a
3-1 margin. Read The Maui News story …
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — February 22nd
- 1630: Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn
- 1856: 1st national meeting of the Republican Party (Pittsburgh, PA)
- 1888: John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers, NY)
- 1889: Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to the union
- 1923: Transcontinental airmail service begins
- 1935: Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
- 1956: Elvis Presley’s first hit in Billboard’s top 10: “Heartbreak Hotel”
- 1980: US Olympic hockey team unexpectedly defeats the USSR team 4-to-3 at Lake Placid, NY (the team goes on to win the gold medal)
- 1994: The Justice Department charges 31-year CIA veteran Aldrich Ames and his wife, Rosario, with selling national security secrets to the Soviet Union
- 2001: A UN war crimes tribunal convicts three Bosnian Serbs on charges of rape and torture in the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court
- 2006: Insurgents destroy the golden dome of one of Iraq’s holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off a spasm of sectarian violence
BORN ON THIS DAY — February 22nd
- 1732: George Washington, general/1st US president
- 1778: Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter
- 1810: Frédéric F Chopin, pianist/composer
- 1857: Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder Boy Scouts)
- 1891: “Chico” Marx, actor/comedian
- 1892: Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/writer/feminist
- 1908: John Mills, actor
- 1925: Edward Gorey, author/artist
- 1932: Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy, Senator (D-MA)
- 1932: Piper Laurie, actress
- 1938: Ishmael Reed, author
- 1944: Jonathan Demme, actor/director
- 1950: Julius Erving, ABA/NBA forward
- 1950: Julie Walters, actress
- 1972: Michael Chang, tennis pro
- 1975: Drew Barrymore, actress
