Tell It on the Mountain

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Day 150 of 2008
216 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mauna: Mountain
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Maunten: Mountain
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Love is like mist; there is no mountaintop it does not settle upon.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.” (Rabindranath Tagore)

WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Curiosity
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — My Stroke of Insight
 NETCAST OF THE WEEK — 10-Minute Lessons
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — ModestNeeds.org

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 29th
1848: Wisconsin becomes the 30th state
1953: Sir Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay are the first  to ascend Mt. Everest summit.
1965: Muhammad Ali defeats Sonny Liston with a “mystery punch” in the first minute of their rematch in Lewiston Maine (Bates College students storm the ring, upset by the “fix” and the World Boxing Association does not recognize Ali as champion because of his political views)
1973: Tom Bradley is elected as the first African American mayor of Los Angeles
1987: Michael Jackson attempts to buy the Elephant Man’s remains
1989: Student protesters in China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty
1998: Barry Goldwater (fomrer Arizona senator & Republican presidential candidate) dies at age 89 in Paradise Valley Arizona
1999: Space shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station
2001: Four followers of Osama bin Laden are convicted in New York of a global conspiracy to murder Americans, including the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people
2004: A memorial to America’s World War II veterans was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
2005: French voters soundly rejected the European Union’s proposed constitution.

BORN ON THIS DAY — May 29th
1736: Patrick Henry, U.S. patriot
1874: G.K. Chesterton, English critic, poet, essayist
1903: Bob Hope, comedian
1906: T.H. White, English novelist and historian
1880: Oswald Spengler, philosopher
1917: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th U.S. president
1939: Al Unser, auto racer
1942: Kevin Conway, actor
1956: La Toya Jackson, singer
1958: Annette Bening, actress
1959: Rupert Everett, actor
1961: Melissa Etheridge, singer
1963: Lisa Whelchel, actress