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Day 185 of 2008
181 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Hoa paio: Adversary
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Poro: Friend
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The mouths of people make noise like mud crabs.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” (Frederich Niezsche)
WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing Maui
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — You Look Nice Today
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — John Cusack in MoveOn New Video

July 3, 1919: The first copies of the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper are delivered by airmail to Maui. No one wanted to read it then, either.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 3rd
1775: Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge Massachusetts
1806: Michael Keens exhibits the first cultivated strawberry
1848: Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin Islands)
1986: The renovated Statue of Liberty is re-dedicated
2001: General Electric’s $41 billion purchase of Honeywell International is vetoed by the European Union
2005: NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target as planned in a mission to learn how the solar system formed.

BORN ON THIS DAY — July 3rd
1567: Samuel de Champlain, explorer
1878: George M. Cohan, producer/director
1883: Franz Kafka, writer
1925: Tony Curtis,  actor
1927: Ken Russell, director
1937: Tom Stoppard, playwright
1941: Gloria Allred, feminist attorney
1943: Geraldo Rivera newsman/TV show host
1947: Dave Barry, humorist
1962: Tom Cruise, actor